Vision Skills Needed to Answer Visual Questions
Abstract
The task of answering questions about images has garnered attention as a practical service for assisting populations with visual impairments as well as a visual Turing test for the artificial intelligence community. Our first aim is to identify the common vision skills needed for both scenarios. To do so, we analyze the need for four vision skills---object recognition, text recognition, color recognition, and counting---on over 27,000 visual questions from two datasets representing both scenarios. We next quantify the difficulty of these skills for both humans and computers on both datasets. Finally, we propose a novel task of predicting what vision skills are needed to answer a question about an image. Our results reveal (mis)matches between aims of real users of such services and the focus of the AI community. We conclude with a discussion about future directions for addressing the visual question answering task.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2010.03160,
title = {Vision Skills Needed to Answer Visual Questions},
author = {Xiaoyu Zeng and Yanan Wang and Tai-Yin Chiu and Nilavra Bhattacharya and Danna Gurari},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2010.03160},
year = {2020}
}
Comments
To be published on Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, Vol. 4, No. CSCW2, Article 149. Publication date: October 2020