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A number of recent works have proposed attention models for Visual Question Answering (VQA) that generate spatial maps highlighting image regions relevant to answering the question. In this paper, we argue that in addition to modeling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-01-20 Jiasen Lu , Jianwei Yang , Dhruv Batra , Devi Parikh

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

Visual Question Answering is a multi-modal task that aims to measure high-level visual understanding. Contemporary VQA models are restrictive in the sense that answers are obtained via classification over a limited vocabulary (in the case…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-18 Radhika Dua , Sai Srinivas Kancheti , Vineeth N Balasubramanian

Document Question Answering (QA) presents a challenge in understanding visually-rich documents (VRD), particularly those dominated by lengthy textual content like research journal articles. Existing studies primarily focus on real-world…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-22 Yihao Ding , Kaixuan Ren , Jiabin Huang , Siwen Luo , Soyeon Caren Han

The extraction of visual features is an essential step in Visual Question Answering (VQA). Building a good visual representation of the analyzed scene is indeed one of the essential keys for the system to be able to correctly understand the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Hichem Boussaid , Lucrezia Tosato , Flora Weissgerber , Camille Kurtz , Laurent Wendling , Sylvain Lobry

Visual Question Answering (VQA) is a challenging task that requires cross-modal understanding and reasoning of visual image and natural language question. To inspect the association of VQA models to human cognition, we designed a survey to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-05 Liben Chen , Long Chen , Tian Ellison-Chen , Zhuoyuan Xu

Recent advances in using retrieval components over external knowledge sources have shown impressive results for a variety of downstream tasks in natural language processing. Here, we explore the use of unstructured external knowledge…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-19 Shir Gur , Natalia Neverova , Chris Stauffer , Ser-Nam Lim , Douwe Kiela , Austin Reiter

Understanding images and text together is an important aspect of cognition and building advanced Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems. As a community, we have achieved good benchmarks over language and vision domains separately, however…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-19 Shailaja Keyur Sampat , Yezhou Yang , Chitta Baral

Visual question answering (VQA) has the potential to make the Internet more accessible in an interactive way, allowing people who cannot see images to ask questions about them. However, multiple studies have shown that people who are blind…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-31 Nandita Naik , Christopher Potts , Elisa Kreiss

In this work, we introduce VQA 360, a novel task of visual question answering on 360 images. Unlike a normal field-of-view image, a 360 image captures the entire visual content around the optical center of a camera, demanding more…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-13 Shih-Han Chou , Wei-Lun Chao , Wei-Sheng Lai , Min Sun , Ming-Hsuan Yang

Multimodal pre-training demonstrates its potential in the medical domain, which learns medical visual representations from paired medical reports. However, many pre-training tasks require extra annotations from clinicians, and most of them…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-02 Tongkun Su , Jun Li , Xi Zhang , Haibo Jin , Hao Chen , Qiong Wang , Faqin Lv , Baoliang Zhao , Yin Hu

Visual Question Answering (VQA) is a challenging task of predicting the answer to a question about the content of an image. Prior works directly evaluate the answering models by simply calculating the accuracy of predicted answers. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Kun Li , George Vosselman , Michael Ying Yang

Visual Question Answering (VQA) is the task of answering questions based on image content. Building upon this, Knowledge-Based VQA (KB-VQA) requires models to answer questions that depend on external knowledge beyond the visual content of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Wei Ye , Yixin Su , Yueguo Chen , Longxiang Gao , Jianjun Li , Ruixuan Li , Rui Zhang

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

Visual Question Answering (VQA) is a challenge task that combines natural language processing and computer vision techniques and gradually becomes a benchmark test task in multimodal large language models (MLLMs). The goal of our survey is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-27 Jiayi Kuang , Jingyou Xie , Haohao Luo , Ronghao Li , Zhe Xu , Xianfeng Cheng , Yinghui Li , Xika Lin , Ying Shen

In recent years, multi-modal transformers have shown significant progress in Vision-Language tasks, such as Visual Question Answering (VQA), outperforming previous architectures by a considerable margin. This improvement in VQA is often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-12 Ankur Sikarwar , Gabriel Kreiman

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

Question Answering (QA) systems have traditionally relied on structured text data, but the rapid growth of multimedia content (images, audio, video, and structured metadata) has introduced new challenges and opportunities for…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Rahul Raja , Arpita Vats

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

This paper presents a new model for the task of scene text visual question answering, in which questions about a given image can only be answered by reading and understanding scene text that is present in it. The proposed model is based on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-26 Lluís Gómez , Ali Furkan Biten , Rubèn Tito , Andrés Mafla , Marçal Rusiñol , Ernest Valveny , Dimosthenis Karatzas