Both Sides Now: Generating and Understanding Visually-Grounded Language

Опубликовано 13 мая 2019, 16:21

From robots to cars, virtual assistants and voice-controlled drones, computing devices are increasingly expected to communicate naturally with people and to understand the visual context in which they operate. In this talk, I will present our latest work on generating and comprehending visually-grounded language. First, we will discuss the challenging task of describing an image (image captioning). I will introduce captioning models that leverage multiple data sources, including object detection datasets and unaligned text corpora, in order to learn about the long-tail of visual concepts found in the real world. To support and encourage further efforts in this area, I will present the 'nocaps' benchmark for novel object captioning. In the second part of the talk, I will describe our recent work on developing agents that follow natural language instructions in reconstructed 3D environments using the R2R dataset for vision-and-language navigation.

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