The interaction between language and visual information has been emphasized in visual question answering (VQA) with the help of attention mechanism. However, the relationship between words in question has been underestimated, which makes it hard to answer questions that involve the relationship between multiple entities, such as comparison and counting. In this paper, we develop the graph reasoning networks to tackle this problem. Two kinds of graphs are investigated, namely inter-graph and intra-graph. The inter-graph transfers features of the detected objects to their related query words, enabling the output nodes to have both semantic and factual information. The intra-graph exchanges information between these output nodes from inter-graph to amplify implicit yet important relationship between objects. These two kinds of graphs cooperate with each other, and thus our resulting model can reason the relationship and dependence between objects, which leads to realization of multi-step reasoning. Experimental results on the GQA v1.1 dataset demonstrate the reasoning ability of our method to handle compositional questions about real-world images. We achieve state-of-the-art performance, boosting accuracy to 57.04 . On the VQA 2.0 dataset, we also receive a promising improvement on overall accuracy, especially on counting problem.
: VQA is a task to answer the given question based on the input image. The question is usually embedded into a vector with LSTM @cite_6 , and the image is represented by the fixed-size grid features from ResNet @cite_4 . Recently, @cite_28 focuses on bottom-up attention of image features and proposes a set of salient image regions with natural expression and additional attributes detected by Faster-RCNN @cite_3 . Furthermore, its training set contains 1,600 object classes and 400 attribute classes, larger than the original 80 object classes.
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Visual Question Answering (VQA) is the task of taking as input an image and a free-form natural language question about the image, and producing an accurate answer. In this work we view VQA as a "feature extraction" module to extract image and caption representations. We employ these representations for the task of image-caption ranking. Each feature dimension captures (imagines) whether a fact (question-answer pair) could plausibly be true for the image and caption. This allows the model to interpret images and captions from a wide variety of perspectives. We propose score-level and representation-level fusion models to incorporate VQA knowledge in an existing state-of-the-art VQA-agnostic image-caption ranking model. We find that incorporating and reasoning about consistency between images and captions significantly improves performance. Concretely, our model improves state-of-the-art on caption retrieval by 7.1 and on image retrieval by 4.4 on the MSCOCO dataset. This paper proposes to improve visual question answering (VQA) with structured representations of both scene contents and questions. A key challenge in VQA is to require joint reasoning over the visual and text domains. The predominant CNN LSTM-based approach to VQA is limited by monolithic vector representations that largely ignore structure in the scene and in the form of the question. CNN feature vectors cannot effectively capture situations as simple as multiple object instances, and LSTMs process questions as series of words, which does not reflect the true complexity of language structure. We instead propose to build graphs over the scene objects and over the question words, and we describe a deep neural network that exploits the structure in these representations. This shows significant benefit over the sequential processing of LSTMs. The overall efficacy of our approach is demonstrated by significant improvements over the state-of-the-art, from 71.2 to 74.4 in accuracy on the "abstract scenes" multiple-choice benchmark, and from 34.7 to 39.1 in accuracy over pairs of "balanced" scenes, i.e. images with fine-grained differences and opposite yes no answers to a same question. Recently, the Visual Question Answering (VQA) task has gained increasing attention in artificial intelligence. Existing VQA methods mainly adopt the visual attention mechanism to associate the input question with corresponding image regions for effective question answering. The free-form region based and the detection-based visual attention mechanisms are mostly investigated, with the former ones attending free-form image regions and the latter ones attending pre-specified detection-box regions. We argue that the two attention mechanisms are able to provide complementary information and should be effectively integrated to better solve the VQA problem. In this paper, we propose a novel deep neural network for VQA that integrates both attention mechanisms. Our proposed framework effectively fuses features from free-form image regions, detection boxes, and question representations via a multi-modal multiplicative feature embedding scheme to jointly attend question-related free-form image regions and detection boxes for more accurate question answering. The proposed method is extensively evaluated on two publicly available datasets, COCO-QA and VQA, and outperforms state-of-the-art approaches. Source code is available at this https URL We propose the task of free-form and open-ended Visual Question Answering (VQA). Given an image and a natural language question about the image, the task is to provide an accurate natural language answer. Mirroring real-world scenarios, such as helping the visually impaired, both the questions and answers are open-ended. Visual questions selectively target different areas of an image, including background details and underlying context. As a result, a system that succeeds at VQA typically needs a more detailed understanding of the image and complex reasoning than a system producing generic image captions. Moreover, VQA is amenable to automatic evaluation, since many open-ended answers contain only a few words or a closed set of answers that can be provided in a multiple-choice format. We provide a dataset containing 0.25M images, 0.76M questions, and 10M answers (www.visualqa.org), and discuss the information it provides. Numerous baselines and methods for VQA are provided and compared with human performance. Our VQA demo is available on CloudCV (this http URL).