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Visual dialog is a challenging vision-language task in which a series of questions visually grounded by a given image are answered. To resolve the visual dialog task, a high-level understanding of various multimodal inputs (e.g., question,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-10-08 Sungjin Park , Taesun Whang , Yeochan Yoon , Heuiseok Lim

Recent years have witnessed an increasing amount of dialogue/conversation on the web especially on social media. That inspires the development of dialogue-based retrieval, in which retrieving videos based on dialogue is of increasing…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-03-30 Chenyang Lyu , Manh-Duy Nguyen , Van-Tu Ninh , Liting Zhou , Cathal Gurrin , Jennifer Foster

Visual Dialog requires an agent to engage in a conversation with humans grounded in an image. Many studies on Visual Dialog focus on the understanding of the dialog history or the content of an image, while a considerable amount of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-12 Shunyu Zhang , Xiaoze Jiang , Zequn Yang , Tao Wan , Zengchang Qin

Existing conversational datasets consist either of written proxies for dialog or small-scale transcriptions of natural speech. We introduce 'Interview': a large-scale (105K conversations) media dialog dataset collected from news interview…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-08 Bodhisattwa Prasad Majumder , Shuyang Li , Jianmo Ni , Julian McAuley

Recent advancements in multi-turn voice interaction models have improved user-model communication. However, while closed-source models effectively retain and recall past utterances, whether open-source models share this ability remains…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Heeseung Kim , Che Hyun Lee , Sangkwon Park , Jiheum Yeom , Nohil Park , Sangwon Yu , Sungroh Yoon

In outside knowledge visual question answering (OK-VQA), the model must identify relevant visual information within an image and incorporate external knowledge to accurately respond to a question. Extending this task to a visually grounded…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Benjamin Reichman , Constantin Patsch , Jack Truxal , Atishay Jain , Larry Heck

High-quality datasets for task-oriented dialog are crucial for the development of virtual assistants. Yet three of the most relevant large scale dialog datasets suffer from one common flaw: the dialog state update can be tracked, to a great…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Alice Shoshana Jakobovits , Francesco Piccinno , Yasemin Altun

Dialogue models falter in noisy, multi-speaker environments, often producing irrelevant responses and awkward turn-taking. We present AV-Dialog, the first multimodal dialog framework that uses both audio and visual cues to track the target…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Tuochao Chen , Bandhav Veluri , Hongyu Gong , Shyamnath Gollakota

The popularity of image sharing on social media and the engagement it creates between users reflects the important role that visual context plays in everyday conversations. We present a novel task, Image-Grounded Conversations (IGC), in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-04-21 Nasrin Mostafazadeh , Chris Brockett , Bill Dolan , Michel Galley , Jianfeng Gao , Georgios P. Spithourakis , Lucy Vanderwende

The image, question (combined with the history for de-referencing), and the corresponding answer are three vital components of visual dialog. Classical visual dialog systems integrate the image, question, and history to search for or…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-02-27 Dalu Guo , Chang Xu , Dacheng Tao

GuessWhat?! is a visual dialogue task between a guesser and an oracle. The guesser aims to locate an object supposed by the oracle oneself in an image by asking a sequence of Yes/No questions. Asking proper questions with the progress of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-26 Wei Pang , Xiaojie Wang

Visual question answering (VQA) systems are emerging from a desire to empower users to ask any natural language question about visual content and receive a valid answer in response. However, close examination of the VQA problem reveals an…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-08-30 Danna Gurari , Kristen Grauman

This paper introduces the PhotoBook dataset, a large-scale collection of visually-grounded, task-oriented dialogues in English designed to investigate shared dialogue history accumulating during conversation. Taking inspiration from seminal…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-27 Janosch Haber , Tim Baumgärtner , Ece Takmaz , Lieke Gelderloos , Elia Bruni , Raquel Fernández

Visual dialog is a challenging task that requires the comprehension of the semantic dependencies among implicit visual and textual contexts. This task can refer to the relation inference in a graphical model with sparse contexts and unknown…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-07 Dan Guo , Hui Wang , Hanwang Zhang , Zheng-Jun Zha , Meng Wang

We introduce Affective Visual Dialog, an emotion explanation and reasoning task as a testbed for research on understanding the formation of emotions in visually grounded conversations. The task involves three skills: (1) Dialog-based…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Kilichbek Haydarov , Xiaoqian Shen , Avinash Madasu , Mahmoud Salem , Li-Jia Li , Gamaleldin Elsayed , Mohamed Elhoseiny

While most conversational AI systems focus on textual dialogue only, conditioning utterances on visual context (when it's available) can lead to more realistic conversations. Unfortunately, a major challenge for incorporating visual context…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Paul Hongsuck Seo , Arsha Nagrani , Cordelia Schmid

With the recent advancements in AI, Intelligent Virtual Assistants (IVA) have become a ubiquitous part of every home. Going forward, we are witnessing a confluence of vision, speech and dialog system technologies that are enabling the IVAs…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-12-21 Shachi H Kumar , Eda Okur , Saurav Sahay , Juan Jose Alvarado Leanos , Jonathan Huang , Lama Nachman

Video-based dialog task is a challenging multimodal learning task that has received increasing attention over the past few years with state-of-the-art obtaining new performance records. This progress is largely powered by the adaptation of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-27 Huda Alamri , Anthony Bilic , Michael Hu , Apoorva Beedu , Irfan Essa

This paper presents a dataset collected from natural dialogs which enables to test the ability of dialog systems to learn new facts from user utterances throughout the dialog. This interactive learning will help with one of the most…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-05-17 Miroslav Vodolán , Filip Jurčíček

Visual dialog is a challenging vision-language task, which requires the agent to answer multi-round questions about an image. It typically needs to address two major problems: (1) How to answer visually-grounded questions, which is the core…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-09 Yulei Niu , Hanwang Zhang , Manli Zhang , Jianhong Zhang , Zhiwu Lu , Ji-Rong Wen