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We propose the task of free-form and open-ended Visual Question Answering (VQA). Given an image and a natural language question about the image, the task is to provide an accurate natural language answer. Mirroring real-world scenarios,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-10-28 Aishwarya Agrawal , Jiasen Lu , Stanislaw Antol , Margaret Mitchell , C. Lawrence Zitnick , Dhruv Batra , Devi Parikh

While neural networks with attention mechanisms have achieved superior performance on many natural language processing tasks, it remains unclear to which extent learned attention resembles human visual attention. In this paper, we propose a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-28 Ekta Sood , Simon Tannert , Diego Frassinelli , Andreas Bulling , Ngoc Thang Vu

Image captioning is a challenging task at the intersection of computer vision and natural language processing, requiring models to generate meaningful textual descriptions of images. Traditional approaches rely on recurrent neural networks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-27 Hemanth Teja Yanambakkam , Rahul Chinthala

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

Attention modules connecting encoder and decoders have been widely applied in the field of object recognition, image captioning, visual question answering and neural machine translation, and significantly improves the performance. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-01 Qingzhong Wang , Antoni B. Chan

Answering semantically-complicated questions according to an image is challenging in Visual Question Answering (VQA) task. Although the image can be well represented by deep learning, the question is always simply embedded and cannot well…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-15 JianJian Cao , Xiameng Qin , Sanyuan Zhao , Jianbing Shen

Knowledge-based Visual Question Answering (KVQA) requires external knowledge beyond the visible content to answer questions about an image. This ability is challenging but indispensable to achieve general VQA. One limitation of existing…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-11-04 Jing Yu , Zihao Zhu , Yujing Wang , Weifeng Zhang , Yue Hu , Jianlong Tan

Visual Question Answering (VQA) attracts much attention from both industry and academia. As a multi-modality task, it is challenging since it requires not only visual and textual understanding, but also the ability to align cross-modality…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-27 Peixi Xiong , Quanzeng You , Pei Yu , Zicheng Liu , Ying Wu

Visual attention mechanisms are a key component of neural network models for computer vision. By focusing on a discrete set of objects or image regions, these mechanisms identify the most relevant features and use them to build more…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-08 António Farinhas , André F. T. Martins , Pedro M. Q. Aguiar

Attention models are widely used in Vision-language (V-L) tasks to perform the visual-textual correlation. Humans perform such a correlation with a strong linguistic understanding of the visual world. However, even the best performing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-27 Gouthaman KV , Athira Nambiar , Kancheti Sai Srinivas , Anurag Mittal

Many real-world applications involve data from multiple modalities and thus exhibit the view heterogeneity. For example, user modeling on social media might leverage both the topology of the underlying social network and the content of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-16 Lecheng Zheng , Yu Cheng , Hongxia Yang , Nan Cao , Jingrui He

Visual Question Answering (VQA) presents a unique challenge by requiring models to understand and reason about visual content to answer questions accurately. Existing VQA models often struggle with biases introduced by the training data,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Zhifei Li , Feng Qiu , Yiran Wang , Yujing Xia , Kui Xiao , Miao Zhang , Yan Zhang

This paper proposes to improve visual question answering (VQA) with structured representations of both scene contents and questions. A key challenge in VQA is to require joint reasoning over the visual and text domains. The predominant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-31 Damien Teney , Lingqiao Liu , Anton van den Hengel

We tackle the problem of understanding visual ads where given an ad image, our goal is to rank appropriate human generated statements describing the purpose of the ad. This problem is generally addressed by jointly embedding images and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-05 Karuna Ahuja , Karan Sikka , Anirban Roy , Ajay Divakaran

Visual question answering (VQA) is an important and challenging multimodal task in computer vision. Recently, a few efforts have been made to bring VQA task to aerial images, due to its potential real-world applications in disaster…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-24 Kun Li , George Vosselman , Michael Ying Yang

This paper presents a new baseline for visual question answering task. Given an image and a question in natural language, our model produces accurate answers according to the content of the image. Our model, while being architecturally…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-13 Vahid Kazemi , Ali Elqursh

Visual question answering is a vision-and-language multimodal task, that aims at predicting answers given samples from the question and image modalities. Most recent methods focus on learning a good joint embedding space of images and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-09 Abhishek Jha , Badri N. Patro , Luc Van Gool , Tinne Tuytelaars

With the rapid growth of knowledge bases (KBs), question answering over knowledge base, a.k.a. KBQA has drawn huge attention in recent years. Most of the existing KBQA methods follow so called encoder-compare framework. They map the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-05-29 Yingqi Qu , Jie Liu , Liangyi Kang , Qinfeng Shi , Dan Ye

We propose the inverse problem of Visual question answering (iVQA), and explore its suitability as a benchmark for visuo-linguistic understanding. The iVQA task is to generate a question that corresponds to a given image and answer pair.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-19 Feng Liu , Tao Xiang , Timothy M. Hospedales , Wankou Yang , Changyin Sun

In this paper, we exploit a memory-augmented neural network to predict accurate answers to visual questions, even when those answers occur rarely in the training set. The memory network incorporates both internal and external memory blocks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-28 Chao Ma , Chunhua Shen , Anthony Dick , Qi Wu , Peng Wang , Anton van den Hengel , Ian Reid