Visual Question Answering (VQA) requires integration of feature maps with drastically different structures. Image descriptors have structures at multiple spatial scales, while lexical inputs inherently follow a temporal sequence and naturally cluster into semantically different question types. A lot of previous works use complex models to extract feature representations but neglect to use high-level information summary such as question types in learning. In this work, we propose Question Type-guided Attention (QTA). It utilizes the information of question type to dynamically balance between bottom-up and top-down visual features, respectively extracted from ResNet and Faster R-CNN networks. We experiment with multiple VQA architectures with extensive input ablation studies over the TDIUC dataset and show that QTA systematically improves the performance by more than 5% across multiple question type categories such as “Activity Recognition”, “Utility” and “Counting” on TDIUC dataset compared to the state-of-art. By adding QTA on the state-of-art model MCB, we achieve 3% improvement in overall accuracy. Finally, we propose a multi-task extension to predict question types which generalizes QTA to applications that lack question type, with a minimal performance loss.
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Shi, Y., Furlanello, T., Zha, S., & Anandkumar, A. (2018). Question Type Guided Attention in Visual Question Answering. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) (Vol. 11208 LNCS, pp. 158–175). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-01225-0_10
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