Disney Enterprises, Inc.

Andreas Lehrmann

Leonid Sigal

Paul Hongsuck Seo

A dialog engine configured to answer a sequence of questions related to an image. An attention module residing in the dialog engine includes an attention retrieval process and a tentative attention process. The attention retrieval process retrieves a relevant attention map that may have previously been used to answer a previous query. The tentative attention process generates a tentative attention map based on an image and other input parameters. The attention module combines the relevant attention map and the tentative attention map to generate a fused attention map. Based on the fused attention map, the dialog engine generates a response to the query. Finally, the dialog engine stores the fused attention map in an attention memory for use in answering future queries.

Visual reference resolution using attention memory for visual dialog

One or more image parameters of an image may be analyzed using a hierarchical set of models. Executing individual models in the set of models may generate outputs from analysis of different image parameters of the image. Inputs of one or more of the models may be conditioned on a set of outputs derived from one or more preceding model in the hierarchy.

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Pittsburgh, PA, United States of America

Andreas Lehrmann