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The task of Outside Knowledge Visual Question Answering (OKVQA) requires an automatic system to answer natural language questions about pictures and images using external knowledge. We observe that many visual questions, which contain…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-02-10 Jiawen Zhang , Abhijit Mishra , Avinesh P. V. S , Siddharth Patwardhan , Sachin Agarwal

Zero-Shot Action Recognition has attracted attention in the last years and many approaches have been proposed for recognition of objects, events and actions in images and videos. There is a demand for methods that can classify instances…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-17 Valter Estevam , Helio Pedrini , David Menotti

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

Visual Question Answering (VQA) systems are tasked with answering natural language questions corresponding to a presented image. Traditional VQA datasets typically contain questions related to the spatial information of objects, object…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-06-05 Goonmeet Bajaj , Bortik Bandyopadhyay , Daniel Schmidt , Pranav Maneriker , Christopher Myers , Srinivasan Parthasarathy

Recent advancements in Video Question Answering (VideoQA) have introduced LLM-based agents, modular frameworks, and procedural solutions, yielding promising results. These systems use dynamic agents and memory-based mechanisms to break down…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Tony Montes , Fernando Lozano

In this work, we propose a deep neural architecture that uses an attention mechanism which utilizes region based image features, the natural language question asked, and semantic knowledge extracted from the regions of an image to produce…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-06 Tasmia Tasrin , Md Sultan Al Nahian , Brent Harrison

Understanding images and text together is an important aspect of cognition and building advanced Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems. As a community, we have achieved good benchmarks over language and vision domains separately, however…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-19 Shailaja Keyur Sampat , Yezhou Yang , Chitta Baral

Visual Question Answering (VQA) has been a widely studied topic, with extensive research focusing on how VLMs respond to answerable questions based on real-world images. However, there has been limited exploration of how these models handle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Asir Saadat , Syem Aziz , Shahriar Mahmud , Abdullah Ibne Masud Mahi , Sabbir Ahmed

Visual Question Answering (VQA) models should have both high robustness and accuracy. Unfortunately, most of the current VQA research only focuses on accuracy because there is a lack of proper methods to measure the robustness of VQA…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-29 Jia-Hong Huang , Cuong Duc Dao , Modar Alfadly , C. Huck Yang , Bernard Ghanem

Visual Question Answering (VQA) has been a popular task that combines vision and language, with numerous relevant implementations in literature. Even though there are some attempts that approach explainability and robustness issues in VQA…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-06 Theodoti Stoikou , Maria Lymperaiou , Giorgos Stamou

In visual question answering (VQA), a machine must answer a question given an associated image. Recently, accessibility researchers have explored whether VQA can be deployed in a real-world setting where users with visual impairments learn…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-28 Yang Trista Cao , Kyle Seelman , Kyungjun Lee , Hal Daumé

Understanding protein structure and function is crucial in biology. However, current computational methods are often task-specific and resource-intensive. To address this, we propose zero-shot Protein Question Answering (PQA), a task…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-20 Eli M Carrami , Sahand Sharifzadeh

This paper presents a state-of-the-art model for visual question answering (VQA), which won the first place in the 2017 VQA Challenge. VQA is a task of significant importance for research in artificial intelligence, given its multimodal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-10 Damien Teney , Peter Anderson , Xiaodong He , Anton van den Hengel

Visual question answering (VQA) in surgery is largely unexplored. Expert surgeons are scarce and are often overloaded with clinical and academic workloads. This overload often limits their time answering questionnaires from patients,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Lalithkumar Seenivasan , Mobarakol Islam , Adithya K Krishna , Hongliang Ren

In the realm of multimodal tasks, Visual Question Answering (VQA) plays a crucial role by addressing natural language questions grounded in visual content. Knowledge-Based Visual Question Answering (KBVQA) advances this concept by adding…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Manas Jhalani , Annervaz K M , Pushpak Bhattacharyya

Joint vision and language tasks like visual question answering are fascinating because they explore high-level understanding, but at the same time, can be more prone to language biases. In this paper, we explore the biases in the MovieQA…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-11 Bhavan Jasani , Rohit Girdhar , Deva Ramanan

Benefiting from the advancement of computer vision, natural language processing and information retrieval techniques, visual question answering (VQA), which aims to answer questions about an image or a video, has received lots of attentions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-14 Yangyang Guo , Zhiyong Cheng , Liqiang Nie , Yibing Liu , Yinglong Wang , Mohan Kankanhalli

This paper proposes CQ-VQA, a novel 2-level hierarchical but end-to-end model to solve the task of visual question answering (VQA). The first level of CQ-VQA, referred to as question categorizer (QC), classifies questions to reduce the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-18 Aakansha Mishra , Ashish Anand , Prithwijit Guha

We study the problem of visual question answering (VQA) in images by exploiting supervised domain adaptation, where there is a large amount of labeled data in the source domain but only limited labeled data in the target domain with the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-12 Yiming Xu , Lin Chen , Zhongwei Cheng , Lixin Duan , Jiebo Luo

We propose a method for visual question answering which combines an internal representation of the content of an image with information extracted from a general knowledge base to answer a broad range of image-based questions. This allows…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-04-15 Qi Wu , Peng Wang , Chunhua Shen , Anthony Dick , Anton van den Hengel