Multimodal Differential Network for Visual Question Generation

Badri Narayana Patro, Sandeep Kumar, Vinod Kumar Kurmi, Vinay Namboodiri


Abstract
Generating natural questions from an image is a semantic task that requires using visual and language modality to learn multimodal representations. Images can have multiple visual and language contexts that are relevant for generating questions namely places, captions, and tags. In this paper, we propose the use of exemplars for obtaining the relevant context. We obtain this by using a Multimodal Differential Network to produce natural and engaging questions. The generated questions show a remarkable similarity to the natural questions as validated by a human study. Further, we observe that the proposed approach substantially improves over state-of-the-art benchmarks on the quantitative metrics (BLEU, METEOR, ROUGE, and CIDEr).
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D18-1434
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Proceedings of the 2018 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
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October-November
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2018
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Brussels, Belgium
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EMNLP
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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4002–4012
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https://aclanthology.org/D18-1434
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10.18653/v1/D18-1434
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Badri Narayana Patro, Sandeep Kumar, Vinod Kumar Kurmi, and Vinay Namboodiri. 2018. Multimodal Differential Network for Visual Question Generation. In Proceedings of the 2018 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, pages 4002–4012, Brussels, Belgium. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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COCOVQGVisual Question Answering