VL Tasks: Which Models Suit? : Investigate Different Models for Swedish Image-Text Relation Task

Sammanfattning

In common sense, modality measures the number of areas a model covers. Multi-modal or cross-modal models can handle two or more areas simultaneously. Some common cross-models include Vision-Language models, Speech-Language models, and Vision-Speech models. A Vision-Language (VL) model is a network architecture that can interpret both textual and visual inputs, which has always been challenging. Driven by the interest in exploring such an area, this thesis implements several VL models and investigates their performance on a specific VL task: The Image-Text Relation Task. Instead of using English as the context language, the thesis focuses on other languages where the available resources are less. Swedish is chosen as a case study and the results can be extended to other languages. The experiments show that the Transformer style architecture efficiently handles both textual and visual inputs, even trained with simple loss functions. The work suggests an innovative way for future development in cross-modal models, especially for VL tasks.