Title
Variational Autoencoder for Deep Learning of Images, Labels and Captions.
Abstract
A novel variational autoencoder is developed to model images, as well as associated labels or captions. The Deep Generative Deconvolutional Network (DGDN) is used as a decoder of the latent image features, and a deep Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) is used as an image encoder; the CNN is used to approximate a distribution for the latent DGDN features/code. The latent code is also linked to generative models for labels (Bayesian support vector machine) or captions (recurrent neural network). When predicting a label/caption for a new image at test, averaging is performed across the distribution of latent codes; this is computationally efficient as a consequence of the learned CNN-based encoder. Since the framework is capable of modeling the image in the presence/absence of associated labels/captions, a new semi-supervised setting is manifested for CNN learning with images; the framework even allows unsupervised CNN learning, based on images alone.
Year
Venue
DocType
2016
ADVANCES IN NEURAL INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEMS 29 (NIPS 2016)
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
29
1049-5258
45
PageRank 
References 
Authors
1.33
21
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Pu, Yunchen1571.97
Zhe Gan231932.58
Ricardo Henao328623.85
Xin Yuan438327.60
Chunyuan Li546733.86
andrew stevens6582.26
L. Carin74603339.36