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Visual Question Answering (VQA) emerges as one of the most fascinating topics in computer vision recently. Many state of the art methods naively use holistic visual features with language features into a Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-11-19 Aiwen Jiang , Fang Wang , Fatih Porikli , Yi Li

Visual attention mechanisms are widely used in multimodal tasks, as visual question answering (VQA). One drawback of softmax-based attention mechanisms is that they assign some probability mass to all image regions, regardless of their…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-07-09 Pedro Henrique Martins , Vlad Niculae , Zita Marinho , André Martins

The joint understanding of vision and language has been recently gaining a lot of attention in both the Computer Vision and Natural Language Processing communities, with the emergence of tasks such as image captioning, image-text matching,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-14 Matteo Stefanini , Marcella Cornia , Lorenzo Baraldi , Rita Cucchiara

The Visual Question Answering (VQA) task requires the simultaneous understanding of image content and question semantics. However, existing methods often have difficulty handling complex reasoning scenarios due to insufficient cross-modal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Weikai Sun , Shijie Song , Han Wang

Paragraph-style image captions describe diverse aspects of an image as opposed to the more common single-sentence captions that only provide an abstract description of the image. These paragraph captions can hence contain substantial…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-17 Hyounghun Kim , Mohit Bansal

Learning an effective attention mechanism for multimodal data is important in many vision-and-language tasks that require a synergic understanding of both the visual and textual contents. Existing state-of-the-art approaches use…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-20 Zhou Yu , Yuhao Cui , Jun Yu , Dacheng Tao , Qi Tian

Medical Visual Question Answering (Med-VQA) answers clinical questions using medical images, aiding diagnosis. Designing the MedVQA system holds profound importance in assisting clinical diagnosis and enhancing diagnostic accuracy. Building…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-11 Junkai Zhang , Bin Li , Shoujun Zhou , Yue Du

Visual question answering (VQA) and image captioning require a shared body of general knowledge connecting language and vision. We present a novel approach to improve VQA performance that exploits this connection by jointly generating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-07 Jialin Wu , Zeyuan Hu , Raymond J. Mooney

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

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

The idea of using the recurrent neural network for visual attention has gained popularity in computer vision community. Although the recurrent attention model (RAM) leverages the glimpses with more large patch size to increasing its scope,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-16 Gang Chen

Visual question answering (VQA) has recently been introduced to remote sensing to make information extraction from overhead imagery more accessible to everyone. VQA considers a question (in natural language, therefore easy to formulate)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-27 Christel Chappuis , Sylvain Lobry , Benjamin Kellenberger , Bertrand Le Saux , Devis Tuia

Rich and dense human labeled datasets are among the main enabling factors for the recent advance on vision-language understanding. Many seemingly distant annotations (e.g., semantic segmentation and visual question answering (VQA)) are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-17 Chuang Gan , Yandong Li , Haoxiang Li , Chen Sun , Boqing Gong

Medical Visual Question Answering (VQA) is a multi-modal challenging task widely considered by research communities of the computer vision and natural language processing. Since most current medical VQA models focus on visual content,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-08 Haiwei Pan , Shuning He , Kejia Zhang , Bo Qu , Chunling Chen , Kun Shi

We propose a new attention mechanism for neural based question answering, which depends on varying granularities of the input. Previous work focused on augmenting recurrent neural networks with simple attention mechanisms which are a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-09-21 Yoram Bachrach , Andrej Zukov-Gregoric , Sam Coope , Ed Tovell , Bogdan Maksak , Jose Rodriguez , Conan McMurtie

In order to answer semantically-complicated questions about an image, a Visual Question Answering (VQA) model needs to fully understand the visual scene in the image, especially the interactive dynamics between different objects. We propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-11 Linjie Li , Zhe Gan , Yu Cheng , Jingjing Liu

We propose a novel algorithm for visual question answering based on a recurrent deep neural network, where every module in the network corresponds to a complete answering unit with attention mechanism by itself. The network is optimized by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-10-03 Hyeonwoo Noh , Bohyung Han

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

The major challenge in audio-visual event localization task lies in how to fuse information from multiple modalities effectively. Recent works have shown that attention mechanism is beneficial to the fusion process. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-18 Bin Duan , Hao Tang , Wei Wang , Ziliang Zong , Guowei Yang , Yan Yan

Visual attention has shown usefulness in image captioning, with the goal of enabling a caption model to selectively focus on regions of interest. Existing models typically rely on top-down language information and learn attention implicitly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-02 Shi Chen , Qi Zhao