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- 1. South Australian Machine Learning Seminar Series Abstract The fields of natural language processing (NLP) and computer vision (CV) have seen great advances in their respective goals of analysing and generating text, and of understanding images and videos. While both fields share a similar set of methods rooted in artificial intelligence and machine learning, they have historically developed separately. Recent years, however, have seen an upsurge of interest in problems that require combination of linguistic and visual information. For example, Image Captioning and Visual Question Answering (VQA) are two important research topics in this area. Image captioning requires the machine to describe the image using human readable sentences while the VQA asks a machine to answer language-based questions based on the visual information. In this talk we outline some of the most recent progresses, present some theories and techniques for these two Vision-to- Language tasks, and show a live demo of the image captioning. About the Speaker Dr Qi Wu obtained a BSc in Information and Computing Science from the China Jiliang University (China), and an MSc in Global Computing and Media Technology, a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Bath (United Kingdom). He is currently a Senior Research Associate in the Australia Centre for Visual Technology (ACVT) in the University of Adelaide, Australia. Dr Qi Wu joined the ACVT in 2015 and started to work on the Vision-to-Language problems. He is especially interested in the problem of Image Captioning and Visual Question Answering. He has two papers accepted in the CVPR 2016, all about these two topics. His image captioning model produced the best result in the Microsoft COCO Image Captioning Challenges in the last year and his VQA model is the current state-of-the-art in the area. Speaker: Dr Qi Wu Senior Research Associate- Australia Centre for Visual Technology (ACVT), University of Adelaide, Australia Date: 25 August 2016 Time: 12:10 to 13:00 Followed by pizza! Location: Uni. Adelaide Lower Napier Bldg LG28 Lecture Theatre Seating is limited: RSVP on eventbrite https://visualquestionanswering.even tbrite.com.au More info: mark.mcdonnell@unisa.edu.au sebastien.wong@dsto.defence.gov.au The IEEE Computer Society & IEEE Signal Processing Society present