Latent Variable Models for Visual Question Answering
Abstract
Current work on Visual Question Answering (VQA) explore deterministic approaches conditioned on various types of image and question features. We posit that, in addition to image and question pairs, other modalities are useful for teaching machine to carry out question answering. Hence in this paper, we propose latent variable models for VQA where extra information (e.g. captions and answer categories) are incorporated as latent variables, which are observed during training but in turn benefit question-answering performance at test time. Experiments on the VQA v2.0 benchmarking dataset demonstrate the effectiveness of our proposed models: they improve over strong baselines, especially those that do not rely on extensive language-vision pre-training.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2101.06399,
title = {Latent Variable Models for Visual Question Answering},
author = {Zixu Wang and Yishu Miao and Lucia Specia},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2101.06399},
year = {2021}
}
Comments
ICCV21 CLVL: 4th Workshop on Closing the Loop Between Vision and Language