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Second Order Enhanced Multi-glimpse Attention in Visual Question Answering

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Computer Vision – ACCV 2020 (ACCV 2020)

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Visual Question Answering (VQA) is formulated as predicting the answer given an image and question pair. A successful VQA model relies on the information from both visual and textual modalities. Previous endeavours of VQA are made on the good attention mechanism, and multi-modal fusion strategies. For example, most models, till date, are proposed to fuse the multi-modal features based on implicit neural network through cross-modal interactions. To better explore and exploit the information of different modalities, the idea of second order interactions of different modalities, which is prevalent in recommendation system, is re-purposed to VQA in efficiently and explicitly modeling the second order interaction on both the visual and textual features, learned in a shared embedding space. To implement this idea, we propose a novel Second Order enhanced Multi-glimpse Attention model (SOMA) where each glimpse denotes an attention map. SOMA adopts multi-glimpse attention to focus on different contents in the image. With projected the multi-glimpse outputs and question feature into a shared embedding space, an explicit second order feature is constructed to model the interaction on both the intra-modality and cross-modality of features. Furthermore, we advocate a semantic deformation method as data augmentation to generate more training examples in Visual Question Answering. Experimental results on VQA v2.0 and VQA-CP v2.0 have demonstrated the effectiveness of our method. Extensive ablation studies are studied to evaluate the components of the proposed model.

Y. Fu–This work was supported in part by NSFC Projects (U62076067), Science and Technology Commission of Shanghai Municipality Projects (19511120700, 19ZR1471800).

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Sun, Q., Xie, B., Fu, Y. (2021). Second Order Enhanced Multi-glimpse Attention in Visual Question Answering. In: Ishikawa, H., Liu, CL., Pajdla, T., Shi, J. (eds) Computer Vision – ACCV 2020. ACCV 2020. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12625. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-69538-5_6

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