Dynamic Graph Generation Network: Generating Relational Knowledge from Diagrams

• Published in: 2018 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition pp. 4167 - 4175
• Main Authors: Kim, Daesik, Yoo, YoungJoon, Kim, Jeesoo, Lee, Sangkuk, Kwak, Nojun
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 01.06.2018
• Subjects: Detectors; Image edge detection; Knowledge engineering; Layout; Recurrent neural networks; Visualization
• ISSN: 2575-7075
• DOI: 10.1109/CVPR.2018.00438

In this work, we introduce a new algorithm for analyzing a diagram, which contains visual and textual information in an Abstract and integrated way. Whereas diagrams contain richer information compared with individual image-based or language-based data, proper solutions for automatically understanding them have not been proposed due to their innate characteristics of multi-modality and arbitrariness of layouts. To tackle this problem, we propose a unified diagram-parsing network for generating knowledge from diagrams based on an object detector and a recurrent neural network designed for a graphical structure. Specifically, we propose a dynamic graph-generation network that is based on dynamic memory and graph theory. We explore the dynamics of information in a diagram with activation of gates in gated recurrent unit (GRU) cells. On publicly available diagram datasets, our model demonstrates a state-of-the-art result that outperforms other baselines. Moreover, further experiments on question answering shows potentials of the proposed method for various applications.