Deep Hierarchical Attention Flow for Visual Commonsense Reasoning

Yuansheng Song, Ping Jian

Abstract: Visual Commonsense Reasoning (VCR) requires a thoroughly understanding general information connecting language and vision, as well as the background world knowledge. In this paper, we introduce a novel yet powerful deep hierarchical attention flow framework, which takes full advantage of text information in the query and candidate responses to perform reasoning over the image. Moreover, inspired by the success of machine reading comprehension, we also model the correlation among candidate responses to obtain better response representations. Extensive quantitative and qualitative experiments are conducted to evaluate the proposed model. Empirical results on the benchmark VCR1.0 show that the proposed model outperforms existing strong baselines, which demonstrates the effectiveness of our method.