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Where to Look: Focus Regions for Visual Question Answering

Kevin J. Shih, Saurabh Singh, Derek Hoiem

Abstract

We present a method that learns to answer visual questions by selecting image regions relevant to the text-based query. Our method maps textual queries and visual features from various regions into a shared space where they are compared for relevance with an inner product. Our method exhibits significant improvements in answering questions such as "what color," where it is necessary to evaluate a specific location, and "what room," where it selectively identifies informative image regions. Our model is tested on the recently released VQA dataset, which features free-form human-annotated questions and answers.

BibTeX
@inproceedings{cvpr2016_wheretolookfocus,
  title = {Where to Look: Focus Regions for Visual Question Answering},
  author = {Kevin J. Shih and Saurabh Singh and Derek Hoiem},
  booktitle = {CVPR 2016},
  year = {2016}
}