Stacked Attention Networks for Image Question Answering 论文

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Multimodal Machine Learning ApplicationsDomain Adaptation and Few-Shot LearningAdvanced Image and Video Retrieval Techniques

详细信息

发表日期
2016-06-01
发表年份
2016

关键词

Multimodal Machine Learning ApplicationsDomain Adaptation and Few-Shot LearningAdvanced Image and Video Retrieval Techniques

摘要

This paper presents stacked attention networks (SANs) that learn to answer natural language questions from images. SANs use semantic representation of a question as query to search for the regions in an image that are related to the answer. We argue that image question answering (QA) often requires multiple steps of reasoning. Thus, we develop a multiple-layer SAN in which we query an image multiple times to infer the answer progressively. Experiments conducted on four image QA data sets demonstrate that the proposed SANs significantly outperform previous state-of-the-art approaches. The visualization of the attention layers illustrates the progress that the SAN locates the relevant visual clues that lead to the answer of the question layer-by-layer.