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A Multi-World Approach to Question Answering about Real-World Scenes based on Uncertain Input

1 Oct 2014NeurIPS 2014 12arXiv:1410.0210archive 2025-07-28

Mateusz Malinowski, Mario Fritz

We propose a method for automatically answering questions about images by bringing together recent advances from natural language processing and computer vision. We combine discrete reasoning with uncertain predictions by a multi-world approach that represents uncertainty about the perceived world in a bayesian framework. Our approach can handle human questions of high complexity about realistic scenes and replies with range of answer like counts, object classes, instances and lists of them. The system is directly trained from question-answer pairs. We establish a first benchmark for this task that can be seen as a modern attempt at a visual turing test.

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