Accepted Papers at IJCAI 2022
9 July 2022
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Knowledge Technology has got a paper accepted at the main conference of the 31st International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2022) and a paper accepted at the IJCAI Workshop on Spatio-Temporal Reasoning and Learning. The conference will be held on July 23-29, 2022 at the Messe Wien, Vienna, Austria.
First Paper
Title: What is Right for Me is Not Yet Right for You: A Dataset for Grounding Relative Directions via Multi-Task Learning
Authors: Jae Hee Lee, Matthias Kerzel, Kyra Ahrens, Cornelius Weber, Stefan Wermter
Abstract:
Understanding spatial relations is essential for intelligent agents to act and communicate in the physical world. Relative directions are spatial relations that describe the relative positions of target objects with regard to the intrinsic orientation of reference objects. Grounding relative directions is more difficult than grounding absolute directions because it not only requires a model to detect objects in the image and to identify spatial relation based on this information, but it also needs to recognize the orientation of objects and integrate this information into the reasoning process. We investigate the challenging problem of grounding relative directions with end-to-end neural networks. To this end, we provide GRiD-3D, a novel dataset that features relative directions and complements existing visual question answering (VQA) datasets, such as CLEVR, that involve only absolute directions. We also provide baselines for the dataset with two established end-to-end VQA models. Experimental evaluations show that answering questions on relative directions is feasible when questions in the dataset simulate the necessary subtasks for grounding relative directions. We discover that those subtasks are learned in an order that reflects the steps of an intuitive pipeline for processing relative directions.
Second Paper
Title: Knowing Earlier what Right Means to You: A Comprehensive VQA Dataset for Grounding Relative Directions via Multi-Task Learning
Authors: Kyra Ahrens, Matthias Kerzel, Jae Hee Lee, Cornelius Weber, Stefan Wermter
Abstract:
Spatial reasoning poses a particular challenge for intelligent agents and is at the same time a prerequisite for their successful interaction and communication in the physical world. One such reasoning task is to describe the position of a target object with respect to the intrinsic orientation of some reference object via relative directions. In this paper, we introduce GRiD-A-3D, a novel diagnostic visual question-answering (VQA) dataset based on abstract objects. Our dataset allows for a fine-grained analysis of end-to-end VQA models' capabilities to ground relative directions. At the same time, model training requires considerably fewer computational resources compared with existing datasets, yet yields a comparable or even higher performance. Along with the new dataset, we provide a thorough evaluation based on two widely known end-to-end VQA architectures trained on GRiD-A-3D. We demonstrate that within a few epochs, the subtasks required to reason over relative directions, such as recognizing and locating objects in a scene and estimating their intrinsic orientations, are learned in the order in which relative directions are intuitively processed.