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Intelligent image captioning

US11593612B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateAug 19, 2019
Grant dateFeb 28, 2023
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Expiry dateAug 23, 2041

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  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG06N3/09
  • WIPO fieldComputer technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

Presented herein are embodiments of a multimodal Recurrent Neural Network (m-RNN) model for generating novel image captions. In embodiments, it directly models the probability distribution of generating a word given a previous word or words and an image, and image captions are generated according to this distribution. In embodiments, the model comprises two sub-networks: a deep recurrent neural network for sentences and a deep convolutional network for images. In embodiments, these two sub-networks interact with each other in a multimodal layer to form the whole m-RNN model. The effectiveness of an embodiment of model was validated on four benchmark datasets, and it outperformed the state-of-the-art methods. In embodiments, the m-RNN model may also be applied to retrieval tasks for retrieving images or captions.

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