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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 28, 2020
Filed:
Jun. 21, 2019
Applicant:
Snap Inc., Santa Monica, CA (US);
Inventors:
Zhou Ren, Bellevue, WA (US);
Xiaoyu Wang, Playa Vista, CA (US);
Ning Zhang, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Xutao Lv, Marina Del Rey, CA (US);
Jia Li, Marina Del Rey, CA (US);
Assignee:
Snap Inc., Santa Monica, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00 (2006.01); G06F 16/338 (2019.01); G06F 16/33 (2019.01); G06K 9/72 (2006.01); G06K 9/46 (2006.01); G06K 9/66 (2006.01); G06N 5/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 16/338 (2019.01); G06F 16/3344 (2019.01); G06K 9/00973 (2013.01); G06K 9/4604 (2013.01); G06K 9/66 (2013.01); G06K 9/72 (2013.01); G06N 5/022 (2013.01);
Abstract
An image captioning system and method is provided for generating a caption for an image. The image captioning system utilizes a policy network and a value network to generate the caption. The policy network serves as a local guidance and the value network serves as a global and lookahead guidance.