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Modulating early visual processing by language
Harm de Vries · Florian Strub · Jeremie Mary · Hugo Larochelle · Olivier Pietquin · Aaron Courville

Tue Dec 05 05:55 PM -- 06:00 PM (PST) @ Hall A
in Deep Learning, Applications »

It is commonly assumed that language refers to high-level visual concepts while leaving low-level visual processing unaffected. This view dominates the current literature in computational models for language-vision tasks, where visual and linguistic input are mostly processed independently before being fused into a single representation. In this paper, we deviate from this classic pipeline and propose to modulate the \emph{entire visual processing} by linguistic input. Specifically, we condition the batch normalization parameters of a pretrained residual network on a language embedding. This approach, which we call MODulated Residual Networks (\MRN), significantly improves strong baselines on two visual question answering tasks. Our ablation study shows that modulating from the early stages of the visual processing is beneficial.

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Harm de Vries (Université de Montréal)
Florian Strub (University of Lille)
Jeremie Mary (INRIA / Univ. Lille)
Hugo Larochelle (Google Brain)
Olivier Pietquin (Google Research Brain Team)
Aaron Courville (U. Montreal)

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