Systems and methods for attention-based configurable convolutional neural networks (ABC-CNN) for visual question answering

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PATENT NO 9965705
APP PUB NO 20170124432A1
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15184991

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Described herein are systems and methods for generating and using attention-based deep learning architectures for visual question answering task (VQA) to automatically generate answers for image-related (still or video images) questions. To generate the correct answers, it is important for a model's attention to focus on the relevant regions of an image according to the question because different questions may ask about the attributes of different image regions. In embodiments, such question-guided attention is learned with a configurable convolutional neural network (ABC-CNN). Embodiments of the ABC-CNN models determine the attention maps by convolving image feature map with the configurable convolutional kernels determined by the questions semantics. In embodiments, the question-guided attention maps focus on the question-related regions and filters out noise in the unrelated regions.

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BAIDU USA LLCSUNNYVALE CALIFORNIA 94089

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Chen, Kan Los Angeles, US 12 319
Wang, Jiang Santa Clara, US 145 1886
Xu, Wei Saratoga, US 934 8439

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