See Your Heart: Psychological states Interpretation through Visual Creations

TL;DR

This paper introduces VEIT, a new challenging task for AI to interpret psychological states from visual art, supported by a novel dataset and a model achieving state-of-the-art results, advancing psychoanalytic AI applications.

Contribution

The paper presents VEIT, a novel task for psychological interpretation from visual creations, along with the SpyIn dataset and a visual-semantic model that outperforms existing methods.

Findings

SpyIn dataset supports VEIT and is more challenging than existing captioning datasets.

The proposed model achieves state-of-the-art results on SpyIn.

VEIT requires scene graph and psychological knowledge for accurate interpretation.

Abstract

In psychoanalysis, generating interpretations to one's psychological state through visual creations is facing significant demands. The two main tasks of existing studies in the field of computer vision, sentiment/emotion classification and affective captioning, can hardly satisfy the requirement of psychological interpreting. To meet the demands for psychoanalysis, we introduce a challenging task, \textbf{V}isual \textbf{E}motion \textbf{I}nterpretation \textbf{T}ask (VEIT). VEIT requires AI to generate reasonable interpretations of creator's psychological state through visual creations. To support the task, we present a multimodal dataset termed SpyIn (\textbf{S}and\textbf{p}la\textbf{y} \textbf{In}terpretation Dataset), which is psychological theory supported and professional annotated. Dataset analysis illustrates that SpyIn is not only able to support VEIT, but also more challenging compared with other captioning datasets. Building on SpyIn, we conduct experiments of several image captioning method, and propose a visual-semantic combined model which obtains a SOTA result on SpyIn. The results indicate that VEIT is a more challenging task requiring scene graph information and psychological knowledge. Our work also show a promise for AI to analyze and explain inner world of humanity through visual creations.