Zhaoquan Yuan

Zhou Du, Zhaoquan Yuan, Xiao Wu et al.

Compositional visual question answering (VQA) represents a challenging yet fundamental task that requires models to comprehend novel combinations of previously learned concepts. The current methods often overlook the disentanglement of underlying concepts and are restricted in terms of their ability to effectively capture the compositional variation mechanism. Moreover, the state-of-the-art techniques depend on additional clues for training, which is not feasible in real-world VQA scenarios. To address these issues, in this paper, we introduce a novel Disentanglement-based EquivAriant Learning (DEAL) framework for compositional VQA, which is guided exclusively by ground-truth answers. In DEAL, we employ causality-inspired interventions to disentangle concepts derived from visual and textual inputs within a re-encoding framework. Based on the principle of equivariance, we subsequently perform a compositional transformation on the inference input and impose the equivariant constraint on the output to augment the compositional reasoning capacity of the model. Comprehensive experiments conducted on the benchmark CLEVR-CoGenT and GQA-SGL datasets validate the superiority of our proposed DEAL approach over the existing state-of-the-art methods for compositional VQA tasks in both visual and linguistic generalization settings.

Zhaoquan Yuan, Siyuan Sun, Lixin Duan et al.

Visual question answering by using information from multiple modalities has attracted more and more attention in recent years. However, it is a very challenging task, as the visual content and natural language have quite different statistical properties. In this work, we present a method called Adversarial Multimodal Network (AMN) to better understand video stories for question answering. In AMN, as inspired by generative adversarial networks, we propose to learn multimodal feature representations by finding a more coherent subspace for video clips and the corresponding texts (e.g., subtitles and questions). Moreover, we introduce a self-attention mechanism to enforce the so-called consistency constraints in order to preserve the self-correlation of visual cues of the original video clips in the learned multimodal representations. Extensive experiments on the MovieQA dataset show the effectiveness of our proposed AMN over other published state-of-the-art methods.