A Pipeline for Creative Visual Storytelling

Stephanie Lukin, Reginald Hobbs, Clare Voss


Abstract
Computational visual storytelling produces a textual description of events and interpretations depicted in a sequence of images. These texts are made possible by advances and cross-disciplinary approaches in natural language processing, generation, and computer vision. We define a computational creative visual storytelling as one with the ability to alter the telling of a story along three aspects: to speak about different environments, to produce variations based on narrative goals, and to adapt the narrative to the audience. These aspects of creative storytelling and their effect on the narrative have yet to be explored in visual storytelling. This paper presents a pipeline of task-modules, Object Identification, Single-Image Inferencing, and Multi-Image Narration, that serve as a preliminary design for building a creative visual storyteller. We have piloted this design for a sequence of images in an annotation task. We present and analyze the collected corpus and describe plans towards automation.
Anthology ID:
W18-1503
Volume:
Proceedings of the First Workshop on Storytelling
Month:
June
Year:
2018
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New Orleans, Louisiana
Editors:
Margaret Mitchell, Ting-Hao ‘Kenneth’ Huang, Francis Ferraro, Ishan Misra
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Story-NLP
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
20–32
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/W18-1503
DOI:
10.18653/v1/W18-1503
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Stephanie Lukin, Reginald Hobbs, and Clare Voss. 2018. A Pipeline for Creative Visual Storytelling. In Proceedings of the First Workshop on Storytelling, pages 20–32, New Orleans, Louisiana. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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A Pipeline for Creative Visual Storytelling (Lukin et al., Story-NLP 2018)
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https://aclanthology.org/W18-1503.pdf