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A key solution to visual question answering (VQA) exists in how to fuse visual and language features extracted from an input image and question. We show that an attention mechanism that enables dense, bi-directional interactions between the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-04 Duy-Kien Nguyen , Takayuki Okatani

Existing attention mechanisms either attend to local image grid or object level features for Visual Question Answering (VQA). Motivated by the observation that questions can relate to both object instances and their parts, we propose a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-30 Moshiur R Farazi , Salman H Khan

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

Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) have achieved remarkable success in a wide range of multimodal tasks by integrating pre-trained vision encoders and large language models. However, current LVLMs primarily rely on visual features…

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Medical students and junior surgeons often rely on senior surgeons and specialists to answer their questions when learning surgery. However, experts are often busy with clinical and academic work, and have little time to give guidance.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Long Bai , Mobarakol Islam , Hongliang Ren

Medical Visual Question Answering (VQA) systems play a supporting role to understand clinic-relevant information carried by medical images. The questions to a medical image include two categories: close-end (such as Yes/No question) and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Yunyi Liu , Zhanyu Wang , Dong Xu , Luping Zhou

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

Complex Visual Question Answering (Complex VQA) tasks, which demand sophisticated multi-modal reasoning and external knowledge integration, present significant challenges for existing large vision-language models (LVLMs) often limited by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Jingwei Peng , Jiehao Chen , Mateo Alejandro Rojas , Meilin Zhang

Visual question answering (VQA) is one of the crucial vision-and-language tasks. Yet, existing VQA research has mostly focused on the English language, due to a lack of suitable evaluation resources. Previous work on cross-lingual VQA has…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-12 Chen Liu , Jonas Pfeiffer , Anna Korhonen , Ivan Vulić , Iryna Gurevych

Vision-language models have been key to the development of open-vocabulary 2D semantic segmentation. Lifting these models from 2D images to 3D scenes, however, remains a challenging problem. Existing approaches typically back-project and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Tomas Berriel Martins , Martin R. Oswald , Javier Civera

Vision-and-language (V&L) models pretrained on large-scale multimodal data have demonstrated strong performance on various tasks such as image captioning and visual question answering (VQA). The quality of such models is commonly assessed…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Aishwarya Agrawal , Ivana Kajić , Emanuele Bugliarello , Elnaz Davoodi , Anita Gergely , Phil Blunsom , Aida Nematzadeh

Visual Question Answering (VQA) is an interdisciplinary field that bridges the gap between computer vision (CV) and natural language processing(NLP), enabling Artificial Intelligence(AI) systems to answer questions about images. Since its…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Anupam Pandey , Deepjyoti Bodo , Arpan Phukan , Asif Ekbal

Visual question answering (VQA) in medical imaging aims to support clinical diagnosis by automatically interpreting complex imaging data in response to natural language queries. Existing studies typically rely on distinct visual and textual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Yuanhe Tian , Chen Su , Junwen Duan , Yan Song

Knowledge-based Visual Question Answering (KB-VQA) requires VQA systems to utilize knowledge from external knowledge bases to answer visually-grounded questions. Retrieval-Augmented Visual Question Answering (RA-VQA), a strong framework to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Weizhe Lin , Jinghong Chen , Jingbiao Mei , Alexandru Coca , Bill Byrne

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

Multimodal tabular-image fusion is an emerging task that has received increasing attention in various domains. However, existing methods may be hindered by gradient conflicts between modalities, misleading the optimization of the unimodal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Longfei Huang , Yang Yang

Visual question answering (VQA) has witnessed great progress since May, 2015 as a classic problem unifying visual and textual data into a system. Many enlightening VQA works explore deep into the image and question encodings and fusing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-02-23 Yuetan Lin , Zhangyang Pang , Donghui Wang , Yueting Zhuang

Visual Question Answering (VQA) requires integration of feature maps with drastically different structures and focus of the correct regions. Image descriptors have structures at multiple spatial scales, while lexical inputs inherently…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-20 Yang Shi , Tommaso Furlanello , Sheng Zha , Animashree Anandkumar

Existing Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) and Visual Language Pretrained Models (VLPMs) have shown remarkable performances in the general Visual Question Answering (VQA). However, these models struggle with VQA questions that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-06 Shuo Yang , Siwen Luo , Soyeon Caren Han

In recent years, visual question answering (VQA) has attracted attention from the research community because of its highly potential applications (such as virtual assistance on intelligent cars, assistant devices for blind people, or…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Nghia Hieu Nguyen , Duong T. D. Vo , Kiet Van Nguyen , Ngan Luu-Thuy Nguyen