Uses a variant of the model presented by [1] [Vinyals et al 2014] (http://arxiv.org/abs/1411.4555) to generate tweets that accompany pictures from Twitter.

As detailed in [1], the model extracts convolutional features and uses them as the initial input to an LSTM, with each word of the accompanying tweet as the next input in the sequence. Both the convolutional features and the one-hot word vector are projected into the LSTM's input vector.

This model uses a Lasagne implementation of VGG-net [2] Simonyan et al 2014 for feature extraction. Weights can be downloaded from:

wget https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/63070080/vgg19_normalized.pkl

For data gathering, it's also necessary to have a Twitter developer account with API key and access token, which are saved in private_config.py. However, any set of images and and text can be used.

Some of the captions almost make sense:

from details st for january snow colors

this boy is is my epic favorite shirt show but

The current training set is only around 20,000 images and captions, but I hope to be training it with more data and improving the results soon!

• lasagne
• theano
• fuel
• hdf5
• tqdm