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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 14, 2025
Filed:
Jan. 29, 2021
Applicant:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Inventors:
Lingfei Wu, Elmsford, NY (US);
Lei Yu, Sleepy Hollow, NY (US);
Chen Wang, Chappaqua, NY (US);
Dakuo Wang, Cambridge, MA (US);
Assignee:
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION, Armonk, NY (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 40/40 (2020.01); G06F 18/20 (2023.01); G06F 40/289 (2020.01); G06N 3/045 (2023.01); G06N 20/00 (2019.01); G06T 7/33 (2017.01); G09B 7/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 7/33 (2017.01); G06F 18/29 (2023.01); G06F 40/289 (2020.01); G06F 40/40 (2020.01); G06N 3/045 (2023.01); G06N 20/00 (2019.01); G09B 7/02 (2013.01);
Abstract
A computer-implemented method for visual question generation includes training an alignment module to analyze an image, an answer hint, and a visual hint with respect to the image. A k-nearest neighbors (KNN) graph is constructed by performing an aligned embedding for each region of the image. A node embedding component is generated by using a graph embedding component of the KNN graph. A visual question is generated by sequence decoding each image and graph of the image.