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Scene understanding is the ability of a system to perceive, analyze, and understand the contents and context of a scene or environment. Scene understanding can involve recognizing and interpreting objects, people, and events in a scene, as well as understanding the relationships between them and the context in which they occur.
Scene understanding is related to dialog systems in that it can be used to improve the ability of a dialog system to understand and respond to user input. For example, if a dialog system is able to understand the context and contents of a scene, it may be able to generate more accurate and appropriate responses to user queries or requests.
For example, a scene understanding system might be used in a smart home application to recognize and interpret the objects and people in a room, as well as the relationships between them. This information could be used by a dialog system to generate more accurate and appropriate responses to user queries or requests, such as “Turn on the lights” or “What is the temperature in the living room?”
- Conversation system is a software system that is designed to engage in natural language conversations with humans. Conversation systems can be used for a variety of purposes, such as answering questions, providing information, and engaging in dialog with users.
- Conversational system is a software system that is designed to engage in natural language conversations with humans. Conversational systems can be used for a variety of purposes, such as answering questions, providing information, and engaging in dialog with users.
- Emotional dialog generation is the process of generating natural language dialog that conveys emotional content or context. This can involve generating dialog that reflects the emotional state of the speaker or the intended emotional impact of the dialog on the listener.
- Neural conversational agent is a type of conversation system that uses artificial neural networks to generate natural language responses to user input. Neural conversational agents are trained on large datasets of human-generated dialog and are designed to mimic the way that humans engage in natural language conversations.
- Visual dialog is a type of conversation system that uses visual information, such as images or videos, in addition to natural language dialog to communicate with users. Visual dialog systems can be used for a variety of purposes, such as answering questions about images or videos, providing information about visual content, or engaging in dialog with users based on visual information.
Resources:
- lsun.cs.princeton.edu/2016 .. large-scale scene understanding challenge
- narrative.csail.mit.edu .. computational models of narrative
- pr.cs.cornell.edu/sceneunderstanding .. semantic scene labeling for personal robots
- sunw.csail.mit.edu .. scene understanding workshop
- vision.stanford.edu/projects/totalscene .. towards total scene understanding
- yfcc100m.org .. yahoo flickr creative commons 100 million (yfcc100m) dataset
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