A survey of multimodal deep generative models. (19th March 2022)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Suzuki, Masahiro; Matsuo, Yutaka
• Is Part Of: Advanced robotics. Volume 36:Number 5/6(2022)
• Page Start: 261
• Page End: 278
• Publication Date: 2022-03-19
• Subjects: Deep generative models -- multimodal learning; Robotics -- Periodicals; Robotics -- Japan -- Periodicals; Robotics; Japan; Periodicals; 629.89205
• DOI: 10.1080/01691864.2022.2035253
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0169-1864

Abstract

Abstract : Multimodal learning is a framework for building models that make predictions based on different types of modalities. Important challenges in multimodal learning are the inference of shared representations from arbitrary modalities and cross-modal generation via these representations; however, achieving this requires taking the heterogeneous nature of multimodal data into account. In recent years, deep generative models, i.e. generative models in which distributions are parameterized by deep neural networks, have attracted much attention, especially variational autoencoders, which are suitable for accomplishing the above challenges because they can consider heterogeneity and infer good representations of data. Therefore, various multimodal generative models based on variational autoencoders, called multimodal deep generative models, have been proposed in recent years. In this paper, we provide a categorized survey of studies on multimodal deep generative models. GRAPHICAL ABSTRACT: UF0001