Visual dialog, a visual-language task, enables an AI agent to engage in conversation with humans grounded in a given image. To generate appropriate answers for a series of questions in the dialog, the agent is required to understand the comprehensive visual content of an image and the fine-grained textual context of the dialog. However, previous studies typically utilized the object-level visual feature to represent a whole image, which only focuses on the local perspective of an image but ignores the importance of the global information in an ...
