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Towards End-to-End In-Image Neural Machine Translation

Elman Mansimov
Jakob Uszkoreit
Mitchell Stern
Puneet Jain
EMNLP, NLP Beyond Text workshop, 2020 (2020)
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Abstract

In this paper, we offer a preliminary investigation into the task of in-image machine translation: transforming an image containing text in one language into an image containing the same text in another language. We propose an end-to-end neural model for this task inspired by recent approaches to neural machine translation, and demonstrate promising initial results based purely on pixel-level supervision. We then offer a qualitative evaluation of our system outputs and discuss some common failure modes. Finally, we conclude with directions for future work.

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