Presenter:

Devi Parikh, Georgia Institute of Technology [PUBS]

We will discuss Devi's talk at ​the ​​2017 Raymond and Beverly Sackler Forum session in "​The Frontiers of Machine Learning​" ​session from the National Academy of Sciences. Devi won the prestigious 2017 IJCAI Computers and Thought Award for her research automating common sense reasoning and semantic image understanding.

Readings:

Primary: Lu et al [2], Secondary: Lin and Parikh [1]

References:

[1]	Xiao Lin and Devi Parikh. Don't just listen, use your imagination: Leveraging visual common sense for non-visual tasks. CoRR, arXiv:1502.06108, 2015.
[2]	Jiasen Lu, Anitha Kannan, Jianwei Yang, Devi Parikh, and Dhruv Batra. Best of both worlds: Transferring knowledge from discriminative learning to a generative visual dialog model. CoRR, arxiv:1706.01554, 2017.