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Unsupervised Learning of Spoken Language with Visual Context
David Harwath · Antonio Torralba · James Glass

Wed Dec 07 09:00 AM -- 12:30 PM (PST) @ Area 5+6+7+8 #97
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Humans learn to speak before they can read or write, so why can’t computers do the same? In this paper, we present a deep neural network model capable of rudimentary spoken language acquisition using untranscribed audio training data, whose only supervision comes in the form of contextually relevant visual images. We describe the collection of our data comprised of over 120,000 spoken audio captions for the Places image dataset and evaluate our model on an image search and annotation task. We also provide some visualizations which suggest that our model is learning to recognize meaningful words within the caption spectrograms.

Keywords: Deep Learning or Neural Networks · (Application) Computer Vision · (Application) Object and Pattern Recognition · (Application) Signal and Speech Processing · (Application) Information Retrieval · (Application) Natural Language and Text Processing
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Author Information

David Harwath (MIT CSAIL)
Antonio Torralba (MIT CSAIL)
James Glass (MIT CSAIL)

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