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The use of complex attention modules has improved the performance of the Visual Question Answering (VQA) task. This work aims to learn an improved multi-modal representation through dense interaction of visual and textual modalities. The…

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Robust and efficient learning remains a challenging problem in robotics, in particular with complex visual inputs. Inspired by human attention mechanism, with which we quickly process complex visual scenes and react to changes in the…

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Many vision and language models suffer from poor visual grounding - often falling back on easy-to-learn language priors rather than basing their decisions on visual concepts in the image. In this work, we propose a generic approach called…

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Visual explanation (attention)-guided learning uses not only labels but also explanations to guide model reasoning process. While visual attention-guided learning has shown promising results, it requires a large number of explanation…

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Attention mechanisms in biological perception are thought to select subsets of perceptual information for more sophisticated processing which would be prohibitive to perform on all sensory inputs. In computer vision, however, there has been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-02 Mateusz Malinowski , Carl Doersch , Adam Santoro , Peter Battaglia

Computational human attention modeling in free-viewing and task-specific settings is often studied separately, with limited exploration of whether a common representation exists between them. This work investigates this question and…

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3D Visual Question-Answering (3D VQA) is pivotal for models to perceive the physical world and perform spatial reasoning. Answer-centric supervision is a commonly used training method for 3D VQA models. Many models that utilize this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Shengli Zhou , Jianuo Zhu , Qilin Huang , Fangjing Wang , Yanfu Zhang , Feng Zheng

This study explores innovative methods for improving Visual Question Answering (VQA) using Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), autoencoders, and attention mechanisms. Leveraging a balanced VQA dataset, we investigate three distinct…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-13 Panfeng Li , Qikai Yang , Xieming Geng , Wenjing Zhou , Zhicheng Ding , Yi Nian

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

Humans explain inter-object relationships with semantic labels that demonstrate a high-level understanding required to perform complex Vision-Language tasks such as Visual Question Answering (VQA). However, existing VQA models represent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Moshiur Farazi , Salman Khan , Nick Barnes

The current success of modern visual reasoning systems is arguably attributed to cross-modality attention mechanisms. However, in deliberative reasoning such as in VQA, attention is unconstrained at each step, and thus may serve as a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-26 Thao Minh Le , Vuong Le , Sunil Gupta , Svetha Venkatesh , Truyen Tran

Performance on the most commonly used Visual Question Answering dataset (VQA v2) is starting to approach human accuracy. However, in interacting with state-of-the-art VQA models, it is clear that the problem is far from being solved. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-07 Sasha Sheng , Amanpreet Singh , Vedanuj Goswami , Jose Alberto Lopez Magana , Wojciech Galuba , Devi Parikh , Douwe Kiela

In (Yang et al. 2016), a hierarchical attention network (HAN) is created for document classification. The attention layer can be used to visualize text influential in classifying the document, thereby explaining the model's prediction. We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-08-08 Cynthia Freeman , Jonathan Merriman , Abhinav Aggarwal , Ian Beaver , Abdullah Mueen

Sensor-based human activity recognition (HAR) requires to predict the action of a person based on sensor-generated time series data. HAR has attracted major interest in the past few years, thanks to the large number of applications enabled…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Davide Buffelli , Fabio Vandin

Visual attention, derived from cognitive neuroscience, facilitates human perception on the most pertinent subset of the sensory data. Recently, significant efforts have been made to exploit attention schemes to advance computer vision…

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Problems at the intersection of vision and language are of significant importance both as challenging research questions and for the rich set of applications they enable. However, inherent structure in our world and bias in our language…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-16 Yash Goyal , Tejas Khot , Douglas Summers-Stay , Dhruv Batra , Devi Parikh

Recently, the Visual Question Answering (VQA) task has gained increasing attention in artificial intelligence. Existing VQA methods mainly adopt the visual attention mechanism to associate the input question with corresponding image regions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-02 Pan Lu , Hongsheng Li , Wei Zhang , Jianyong Wang , Xiaogang Wang

Predicting human interaction is challenging as the on-going activity has to be inferred based on a partially observed video. Essentially, a good algorithm should effectively model the mutual influence between the two interacting subjects.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-29 Yichao Yan , Bingbing Ni , Xiaokang Yang

Visual attention has proven to be effective in improving the performance of person re-identification. Most existing methods apply visual attention heuristically by learning an additional attention map to re-weight the feature maps for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-10 Yifan Chen , Han Wang , Xiaolu Sun , Bin Fan , Chu Tang

The potential of multimodal generative artificial intelligence (mAI) to replicate human grounded language understanding, including the pragmatic, context-rich aspects of communication, remains to be clarified. Humans are known to use…