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Image quality assessment (IQA) is very important for both end-users and service providers since a high-quality image can significantly improve the user's quality of experience (QoE) and also benefit lots of computer vision algorithms. Most…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2023-04-28 Wei Sun , Xiongkuo Min , Danyang Tu , Guangtao Zhai , Siwei Ma

The BabyAI platform is designed to measure the sample efficiency of training an agent to follow grounded-language instructions. BabyAI 1.0 presents baseline results of an agent trained by deep imitation or reinforcement learning. BabyAI 1.1…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-07-28 David Yu-Tung Hui , Maxime Chevalier-Boisvert , Dzmitry Bahdanau , Yoshua Bengio

Audio-Visual Question Answering (AVQA) is a complex multi-modal reasoning task, demanding intelligent systems to accurately respond to natural language queries based on audio-video input pairs. Nevertheless, prevalent AVQA approaches are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-06 Jie Ma , Min Hu , Pinghui Wang , Wangchun Sun , Lingyun Song , Hongbin Pei , Jun Liu , Youtian Du

Textbooks are among the richest repositories of human-verified reasoning knowledge, yet their complex layouts contain multi-column typesetting, cross-page question answer separation, and interleaved figures, make automated extraction of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Zhen Hao Wong , Jingwen Deng , Yuzhao Wang , Wenkai Yu , Jihao Huang , Runming He , Chengyu Shen , Hao Liang , Wentao Zhang

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

Question Answering (QA) has shown great success thanks to the availability of large-scale datasets and the effectiveness of neural models. Recent research works have attempted to extend these successes to the settings with few or no labeled…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-07 Zhongli Li , Wenhui Wang , Li Dong , Furu Wei , Ke Xu

In recent years, deep generative models have attracted increasing interest due to their capacity to model complex distributions. Among those models, variational autoencoders have gained popularity as they have proven both to be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-21 Clément Chadebec , Louis J. Vincent , Stéphanie Allassonnière

Despite significant progress in Visual Question Answering over the years, robustness of today's VQA models leave much to be desired. We introduce a new evaluation protocol and associated dataset (VQA-Rephrasings) and show that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-18 Meet Shah , Xinlei Chen , Marcus Rohrbach , Devi Parikh

Face Image Quality Assessment (FIQA) is essential for reliable face recognition systems. Current approaches primarily exploit only final-layer representations, while training-free methods require multiple forward passes or backpropagation.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Guray Ozgur , Eduarda Caldeira , Tahar Chettaoui , Jan Niklas Kolf , Marco Huber , Naser Damer , Fadi Boutros

Visual Question Answering (VQA) models employ attention mechanisms to discover image locations that are most relevant for answering a specific question. For this purpose, several multimodal fusion strategies have been proposed, ranging from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-26 Moshiur R Farazi , Salman H Khan , Nick Barnes

Visual question answering (VQA) is a fundamental and essential AI task, and VQA-based disaster scenario understanding is a hot research topic. For instance, we can ask questions about a disaster image by the VQA model and the answer can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Yimin Sun , Chao Wang , Yan Peng

In recent years, Visual Question Answering (VQA) has made significant strides, particularly with the advent of multimodal models that integrate vision and language understanding. However, existing VQA datasets often overlook the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-12 Mohammadmostafa Rostamkhani , Baktash Ansari , Hoorieh Sabzevari , Farzan Rahmani , Sauleh Eetemadi

In recent years, people have increasingly used AI to help them with their problems by asking questions on different topics. One of these topics can be software-related and programming questions. In this work, we focus on the questions which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-20 Motahhare Mirzaei , Mohammad Javad Pirhadi , Sauleh Eetemadi

Face image quality assessment (FIQA) is essential for various face-related applications. Although FIQA has been extensively studied and achieved significant progress, the computational complexity of FIQA algorithms remains a key concern for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Wei Sun , Weixia Zhang , Linhan Cao , Jun Jia , Xiangyang Zhu , Dandan Zhu , Xiongkuo Min , Guangtao Zhai

The widely used Fact-based Visual Question Answering (FVQA) dataset contains visually-grounded questions that require information retrieval using common sense knowledge graphs to answer. It has been observed that the original dataset is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Weizhe Lin , Zhilin Wang , Bill Byrne

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

Despite advances in Visual Question Answering (VQA), the ability of models to assess their own correctness remains underexplored. Recent work has shown that VQA models, out-of-the-box, can have difficulties abstaining from answering when…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Corentin Dancette , Spencer Whitehead , Rishabh Maheshwary , Ramakrishna Vedantam , Stefan Scherer , Xinlei Chen , Matthieu Cord , Marcus Rohrbach

Retrieval-augmented generation is increasingly effective in answering scientific questions from literature, but many state-of-the-art systems are expensive and closed-source. We introduce Ai2 Scholar QA, a free online scientific question…

As machine intelligence evolves, the need to test and compare the problem-solving abilities of different AI models grows. However, current benchmarks are often simplistic, allowing models to perform uniformly well and making it difficult to…

To efficiently process visual data at scale, researchers have proposed two techniques for lowering the computational overhead associated with the underlying deep learning models. The first approach consists of leveraging a specialized,…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-02-18 Jiashen Cao , Ramyad Hadidi , Joy Arulraj , Hyesoon Kim