English
Related papers

Related papers: Reciprocal Attention Fusion for Visual Question An…

200 papers

Continual Learning in Visual Question Answering (VQACL) requires models to acquire new visual-linguistic skills (plasticity) while preserving previously learned knowledge (stability). The inherent multimodality of VQACL exacerbates this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Imad Eddine Marouf , Enzo Tartaglione , Stephane Lathuiliere , Joost van de Weijer

Attention mechanism has gained huge popularity due to its effectiveness in achieving high accuracy in different domains. But attention is opportunistic and is not justified by the content or usability of the content. Transformer like…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-26 Chiranjib Sur

Answering visual questions need acquire daily common knowledge and model the semantic connection among different parts in images, which is too difficult for VQA systems to learn from images with the only supervision from answers. Meanwhile,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-05-23 Jialin Wu , Zeyuan Hu , Raymond J. Mooney

For stability and reliability of real-world applications, the robustness of DNNs in unimodal tasks has been evaluated. However, few studies consider abnormal situations that a visual question answering (VQA) model might encounter at test…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-12 Doyup Lee , Yeongjae Cheon , Wook-Shin Han

Bridging the semantic gap between image and question is an important step to improve the accuracy of the Visual Question Answering (VQA) task. However, most of the existing VQA methods focus on attention mechanisms or visual relations for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-20 Binh X. Nguyen , Tuong Do , Huy Tran , Erman Tjiputra , Quang D. Tran , Anh Nguyen

Most existing approaches to Visual Question Answering (VQA) answer questions directly, however, people usually decompose a complex question into a sequence of simple sub questions and finally obtain the answer to the original question after…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Ruonan Wang , Yuxi Qian , Fangxiang Feng , Xiaojie Wang , Huixing Jiang

Recent insights on language and vision with neural networks have been successfully applied to simple single-image visual question answering. However, to tackle real-life question answering problems on multimedia collections such as personal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Junwei Liang , Lu Jiang , Liangliang Cao , Li-Jia Li , Alexander Hauptmann

Humans perceive the world by concurrently processing and fusing high-dimensional inputs from multiple modalities such as vision and audio. Machine perception models, in stark contrast, are typically modality-specific and optimised for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-02 Arsha Nagrani , Shan Yang , Anurag Arnab , Aren Jansen , Cordelia Schmid , Chen Sun

In this paper we aim to answer questions based on images when provided with a dataset of question-answer pairs for a number of images during training. A number of methods have focused on solving this problem by using image based attention.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-04 Badri Patro , Vinay P. Namboodiri

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

We propose a novel attention model that can accurately attends to target objects of various scales and shapes in images. The model is trained to gradually suppress irrelevant regions in an input image via a progressive attentive process…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-08 Paul Hongsuck Seo , Zhe Lin , Scott Cohen , Xiaohui Shen , Bohyung Han

We introduce a method for composing object-level visual prompts within a text-to-image diffusion model. Our approach addresses the task of generating semantically coherent compositions across diverse scenes and styles, similar to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Gaurav Parmar , Or Patashnik , Kuan-Chieh Wang , Daniil Ostashev , Srinivasa Narasimhan , Jun-Yan Zhu , Daniel Cohen-Or , Kfir Aberman

Visual Question Answering (VQA) models aim to answer natural language questions about given images. Due to its ability to ask questions that differ from those used when training the model, medical VQA has received substantial attention in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Sergio Tascon-Morales , Pablo Márquez-Neila , Raphael Sznitman

As new data-sets for real-world visual reasoning and compositional question answering are emerging, it might be needed to use the visual feature extraction as a end-to-end process during training. This small contribution aims to suggest new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-01 Jean-Benoit Delbrouck , Antoine Maiorca , Nathan Hubens , Stéphane Dupont

Visual Question Answering (VQA) is an emerging area of interest for researches, being a recent problem in natural language processing and image prediction. In this area, an algorithm needs to answer questions about certain images. As of the…

Effective multimodal fusion requires mechanisms that can capture complex cross-modal dependencies while remaining computationally scalable for real-world deployment. Existing audio-visual fusion approaches face a fundamental trade-off:…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Mohamed Saleh , Zahra Ahmadi

Over the past few years, question answering and information retrieval systems have become widely used. These systems attempt to find the answer of the asked questions from raw text sources. A component of these systems is Answer Selection…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-13 Jamshid Mozafari , Mohammad Ali Nematbakhsh , Afsaneh Fatemi

Previous studies suggested that lateral interactions of V1 cells are responsible, among other visual effects, of bottom-up visual attention (alternatively named visual salience or saliency). Our objective is to mimic these connections with…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2019-11-19 David Berga , Xavier Otazu

Pairwise dot product-based attention allows Transformers to exchange information between tokens in an input-dependent way, and is key to their success across diverse applications in language and vision. However, a typical Transformer model…

The problem of grounding VQA tasks has seen an increased attention in the research community recently, with most attempts usually focusing on solving this task by using pretrained object detectors. However, pre-trained object detectors…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-12 Aisha Urooj Khan , Hilde Kuehne , Kevin Duarte , Chuang Gan , Niels Lobo , Mubarak Shah