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Visual Question Answering (VQA) is a recent problem in computer vision and natural language processing that has garnered a large amount of interest from the deep learning, computer vision, and natural language processing communities. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-16 Kushal Kafle , Christopher Kanan

Vision-and-language tasks have increasingly drawn more attention as a means to evaluate human-like reasoning in machine learning models. A popular task in the field is visual question answering (VQA), which aims to answer questions about…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-06 Yusuke Hirota , Yuta Nakashima , Noa Garcia

This paper revisits visual representation in knowledge-based visual question answering (VQA) and demonstrates that using regional information in a better way can significantly improve the performance. While visual representation is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Yuanze Lin , Yujia Xie , Dongdong Chen , Yichong Xu , Chenguang Zhu , Lu Yuan

Visual Question and Answering (VQA) problems are attracting increasing interest from multiple research disciplines. Solving VQA problems requires techniques from both computer vision for understanding the visual contents of a presented…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-04-07 Ilija Ilievski , Shuicheng Yan , Jiashi Feng

Visual Question Answering (VQA) is challenging due to the complex cross-modal relations. It has received extensive attention from the research community. From the human perspective, to answer a visual question, one needs to read the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Hantao Huang , Tao Han , Wei Han , Deep Yap , Cheng-Ming Chiang

Visual question answering (VQA) is a challenging task, which has attracted more and more attention in the field of computer vision and natural language processing. However, the current visual question answering has the problem of language…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-17 Desen Yuan

We introduce an evaluation methodology for visual question answering (VQA) to better diagnose cases of shortcut learning. These cases happen when a model exploits spurious statistical regularities to produce correct answers but does not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-02 Corentin Dancette , Remi Cadene , Damien Teney , Matthieu Cord

We describe a method for visual question answering which is capable of reasoning about contents of an image on the basis of information extracted from a large-scale knowledge base. The method not only answers natural language questions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-11-13 Peng Wang , Qi Wu , Chunhua Shen , Anton van den Hengel , Anthony Dick

In this paper we aim to answer questions based on images when provided with a dataset of question-answer pairs for a number of images during training. A number of methods have focused on solving this problem by using image based attention.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-04 Badri Patro , Vinay P. Namboodiri

Attention mechanisms have been widely used in Visual Question Answering (VQA) solutions due to their capacity to model deep cross-domain interactions. Analyzing attention maps offers us a perspective to find out limitations of current VQA…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-10 Wei Li , Zehuan Yuan , Xiangzhong Fang , Changhu Wang

Video Question Answering (VQA) is a recent emerging challenging task in the field of Computer Vision. Several visual information retrieval techniques like Video Captioning/Description and Video-guided Machine Translation have preceded the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-19 Devshree Patel , Ratnam Parikh , Yesha Shastri

In this paper, we focus on the Audio-Visual Question Answering (AVQA) task, which aims to answer questions regarding different visual objects, sounds, and their associations in videos. The problem requires comprehensive multimodal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-06 Guangyao Li , Yake Wei , Yapeng Tian , Chenliang Xu , Ji-Rong Wen , Di Hu

Humans apprehend the world through various sensory modalities, yet language is their predominant communication channel. Machine learning systems need to draw on the same multimodal richness to have informed discourses with humans in natural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-25 Min Wang , Ata Mahjoubfar , Anupama Joshi

Medical visual question answering (VQA) aims to answer clinically relevant questions regarding input medical images. This technique has the potential to improve the efficiency of medical professionals while relieving the burden on the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Xinyue Hu , Lin Gu , Kazuma Kobayashi , Qiyuan An , Qingyu Chen , Zhiyong Lu , Chang Su , Tatsuya Harada , Yingying Zhu

Text-based VQA aims at answering questions by reading the text present in the images. It requires a large amount of scene-text relationship understanding compared to the VQA task. Recent studies have shown that the question-answer pairs in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-02 Shamanthak Hegde , Soumya Jahagirdar , Shankar Gangisetty

Visual attention in Visual Question Answering (VQA) targets at locating the right image regions regarding the answer prediction, offering a powerful technique to promote multi-modal understanding. However, recent studies have pointed out…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-09 Yibing Liu , Yangyang Guo , Jianhua Yin , Xuemeng Song , Weifeng Liu , Liqiang Nie

A number of recent works have proposed attention models for Visual Question Answering (VQA) that generate spatial maps highlighting image regions relevant to answering the question. In this paper, we argue that in addition to modeling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-01-20 Jiasen Lu , Jianwei Yang , Dhruv Batra , Devi Parikh

Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) have shown promising performance in vision-language understanding and reasoning tasks. However, their visual understanding behaviors remain underexplored. A fundamental question arises: to what extent do…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Xiaoying Xing , Chia-Wen Kuo , Li Fuxin , Yulei Niu , Fan Chen , Ming Li , Ying Wu , Longyin Wen , Sijie Zhu

No published work on visual question answering (VQA) accounts for ambiguity regarding where the content described in the question is located in the image. To fill this gap, we introduce VQ-FocusAmbiguity, the first VQA dataset that visually…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Chongyan Chen , Yu-Yun Tseng , Zhuoheng Li , Anush Venkatesh , Danna Gurari

Questions that require counting a variety of objects in images remain a major challenge in visual question answering (VQA). The most common approaches to VQA involve either classifying answers based on fixed length representations of both…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-03-05 Alexander Trott , Caiming Xiong , Richard Socher