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Stacked Attention Networks for Image Question Answering

2015-11-07CVPR 2016Code Available1· sign in to hype

Zichao Yang, Xiaodong He, Jianfeng Gao, Li Deng, Alex Smola

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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.

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DatasetModelMetricClaimedVerifiedStatus
COCO Visual Question Answering (VQA) real images 1.0 open endedSANPercentage correct58.9Unverified
VQA v1 test-stdSAN (VGG)Accuracy58.9Unverified

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