Dynamic Fusion for Multimodal Data
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Effective fusion of data from multiple modalities, such as video, speech, and text, is challenging pertaining to the heterogeneous nature of multimodal data. In this paper, we propose dynamic fusion techniques that model context from different modalities efficiently. Instead of defining a deterministic fusion operation, such as concatenation, for the network, we let the network decide "how" to combine given multimodal features in the most optimal way. We propose two networks: 1) transfusion network, which learns to compress information from different modalities while preserving the context, and 2) a GAN-based network, which regularizes the learned latent space given context from complimenting modalities. A quantitative evaluation on the tasks of machine translation, and emotion recognition suggest that such adaptive networks are able to model context better than all existing methods.
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