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Area of Science:

Artificial Intelligence
Computer Vision
Natural Language Processing

Background:

Current AI limitations in understanding visual content contextually.
Need for robust evaluation of AI's ability to integrate vision and language.

Purpose of the Study:

Introduce and define the Visual Dialog task.
Establish a benchmark for AI agents to converse about images.
Develop a large-scale dataset for training and evaluating Visual Dialog agents.

Main Methods:

Developed a novel two-person, real-time chat protocol for data collection.
Curated a large-scale Visual Dialog dataset (VisDial) using COCO images.
Designed the task to require grounding in images and inference from dialog history.

Main Results:

Released VisDial v0.9, featuring dialog question-answer pairs.
Dataset comprises 10-round human-human dialogs.
Dialogs are grounded in images from the COCO dataset.

Conclusions:

Visual Dialog serves as a general test of machine intelligence.
The task allows objective evaluation and benchmarking of AI progress.
The VisDial dataset facilitates research in AI's visual-linguistic capabilities.