Here, I am consolidating what an AI Hard task is and why is image captioning considered one.

Image captioning is a AI hard task as it involves:

  • Grounding natural language symbols to the physical world
  • Semantically understanding content of images
  • Multi-modal knowledge from several sub-domains is required to solve AI Hard tasks
  • Well defined evaluation metric (currently it is the number of questions that are correctly answered by a VQA system.)

An image is understood when it is possible to generate a caption which encompasses the salient features in the image.



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09 January 2016

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