Response to "Visual Dialogue without Vision or Dialogue" (Massiceti et al., 2018)
arXiv:1901.05531v11 citations
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This addresses methodological debates in visual dialogue research, but is incremental as it focuses on defending existing work rather than introducing new advancements.
The authors rebut a critique of the Visual Dialog dataset and evaluation, aiming to clarify concerns for practitioners and challenge participants.
In a recent workshop paper, Massiceti et al. presented a baseline model and subsequent critique of Visual Dialog (Das et al., CVPR 2017) that raises what we believe to be unfounded concerns about the dataset and evaluation. This article intends to rebut the critique and clarify potential confusions for practitioners and future participants in the Visual Dialog challenge.