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This document describes the machine translation system used in the submissions of IIIT-Hyderabad (CVIT-MT) for the WAT-2018 English-Hindi translation task. Performance is evaluated on the associated corpus provided by the organizers. We experimented with convolutional sequence to sequence architectures. We also train with additional data obtained through backtranslation.

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Abstract— For an autonomous corridor following task where the environment is continuously changing, several forms of environmental noise prevent an automated feature extraction procedure from performing reliably. Moreover, in cases where pre-defined features are absent from the captured data, a well defined control signal for performing the servoing task fails to get produced. In order to overcome these drawbacks, we present in this work, using a convolutional neural network (CNN) to directly estimate the required control signal from an image, encompassing feature extraction and control law computation into one single end-to-end framework. In particular, we study the task of autonomous corridor following using a CNN and present clear advantages in cases where a traditional method used for performing the same task fails to give a reliable outcome. We evaluate the performance of our method on this task on a Wheelchair Platform developed at our institute for this purpose.

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Current visual question answering datasets do not consider the rich semantic information conveyed by text within an image. In this work, we present a new dataset, ST-VQA, that aims to highlight the importance of exploiting high-level semantic information present in images as textual cues in the VQA process. We use this dataset to define a series of tasks of increasing difficulty for which reading the scene text in the context provided by the visual information is necessary to reason and generate an appropriate answer. We propose a new evaluation metric for these tasks to account both for reasoning errors as well as shortcomings of the text recognition module. In addition we put forward a series of baseline methods, which provide further insight to the newly released dataset, and set the scene for further research

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Understanding videos of people speaking across internationalborders is hard as audiences from different demographies donot understand the language. Such speech videos are oftensupplemented with language subtitles. However, these ham-per the viewing experience as the attention is shared. Simpleaudio dubbing in a different language makes the video appearunnatural due to unsynchronized lip motion. In this paper, wepropose a system for automated cross-language lip synchro-nization for re-dubbed videos. Our model generates superiorphotorealistic lip-synchronization over original video in com-parison to the current re-dubbing method. With the help of auser-based study, we verify that our method is preferred overunsynchronized videos

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Abstract— Driver inattention is one of the leading causesof vehicle crashes and incidents worldwide. Driver inattentionincludes driver fatigue leading to drowsiness and driver distrac-tion, say due to use of cellphone or rubbernecking, all of whichleads to a lack of situational awareness. Hitherto, techniquespresented to monitor driver attention evaluated factors suchas fatigue and distraction independently. However, in orderto develop a robust driver attention monitoring system allthe factors affecting driver’s attention needs to be analyzedholistically. In this paper, we presentAutoRate, a system thatleverages front camera of a windshield-mounted smartphoneto monitor driver’s attention by combining several features.We derive a driver attention rating by fusing spatio-temporalfeatures based on the driver state and behavior such as headpose, eye gaze, eye closure, yawns, use of cellphones, etc.We perform extensive evaluation ofAutoRateon real-world driving data and also data from controlled, static vehiclesettings with 30 drivers in a large city. We compareAutoRate’sautomatically-generated rating with the scores given by 5human annotators. Further, we compute the agreement betweenAutoRate’s rating and human annotator rating using kappacoefficient.AutoRate’s automatically-generated rating has anoverall agreement of 0.87 with the ratings provided by 5 humanannotators on the static dataset.

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AbstractFully supervised deep learning-based methods have created a profound im-pact in various fields of computer science. Compared to classical methods, superviseddeep learning-based techniques face scalability issues as they require huge amountsof labeled data and, more significantly, are unable to generalize to multiple domainsand tasks. In recent years, a lot of research has been targeted towards addressingthese issues within the deep learning community. Although there have been extensivesurveys on learning paradigms such as semi-supervised and unsupervised learning,there are few timely reviews after the emergence of deep learning. In this paper, weprovide an overview of the contemporary literature surrounding alternatives to fullysupervised learning in the deep learning context. First, we summarize the relevanttechniques that fall between the paradigm of supervised and unsupervised learning.Second, we take autonomous navigation as a running example to explain and com-pare different models. Finally, we highlight some shortcomings of current methodsand suggest future directions.

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Abstract—This paper presents final results of ICDAR 2019Scene Text Visual Question Answering competition (ST-VQA).ST-VQA introduces an important aspect that is not addressedby any Visual Question Answering system up to date, namelythe incorporation of scene text to answer questions asked aboutan image. The competition introduces a new dataset comprising23,038images annotated with31,791question / answer pairswhere the answer is always grounded on text instances presentin the image. The images are taken from7different publiccomputer vision datasets, covering a wide range of scenarios.The competition was structured in three tasks of increas-ing difficulty, that require reading the text in a scene andunderstanding it in the context of the scene, to correctlyanswer a given question. A novel evaluation metric is presented,which elegantly assesses both key capabilities expected from anoptimal model: text recognition and image understanding.A detailed analysis of results from different participants isshowcased, which provides insight into the current capabilitiesof VQA systems that can read. We firmly believe the datasetproposed in this challenge will be an important milestone toconsider towards a path of more robust and general models thatcan exploit scene text to achieve holistic image understanding.

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Cross-modal retrieval methods have been significantly improvedin last years with the use of deep neural networks and large-scaleannotated datasets such as ImageNet and Places. However, collect-ing and annotating such datasets requires a tremendous amountof human effort and, besides, their annotations are limited to dis-crete sets of popular visual classes that may not be representativeof the richer semantics found on large-scale cross-modal retrievaldatasets. In this paper, we present a self-supervised cross-modalretrieval framework that leverages as training data the correlationsbetween images and text on the entire set of Wikipedia articles.Our method consists in training a CNN to predict: (1) the semanticcontext of the article in which an image is more probable to appearas an illustration, and (2) the semantic context of its caption. Ourexperiments demonstrate that the proposed method is not only ca-pable of learning discriminative visual representations for solvingvision tasks like classification, but that the learned representationsare better for cross-modal retrieval when compared to supervisedpre-training of the network on the ImageNet dataset.

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We present a simple, yet effective, Neural Ma-chineTranslationsystemforIndianlanguages.Wedemonstratethefeasibilityformultiplelan-guage pairs, and establish a strong baseline forfurther research.

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Given a target image as query, person re-identification systems retrieve a ranked list of candidate matches on a per-camera basis. In deployed systems, a human operator scans these lists and labels sighted targets by touch or mouse-based selection. However, classical re-id approaches generate per-camera lists independently. Therefore, target identifications by operator in a subset of cameras cannot be utilized to improve ranking of the target in remaining set of network cameras. To address this shortcoming, we propose a novel sequential multi-camera re-id approach. The proposed approach can accommodate human operator inputs and provides early gains via a monotonic improvement in target ranking. At the heart of our approach is a fusion function which operates on deep feature representations of query and candidate matches. We formulate an optimization procedure custom-designed to incrementally …