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We introduce an evaluation methodology for visual question answering (VQA) to better diagnose cases of shortcut learning. These cases happen when a model exploits spurious statistical regularities to produce correct answers but does not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-02 Corentin Dancette , Remi Cadene , Damien Teney , Matthieu Cord

Recent document question answering models consist of two key components: the vision encoder, which captures layout and visual elements in images, and a Large Language Model (LLM) that helps contextualize questions to the image and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-27 Nidhi Hegde , Sujoy Paul , Gagan Madan , Gaurav Aggarwal

We present an empirical study of active learning for Visual Question Answering, where a deep VQA model selects informative question-image pairs from a pool and queries an oracle for answers to maximally improve its performance under a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-07 Xiao Lin , Devi Parikh

Adversarial attacks are known to succeed on classifiers, but it has been an open question whether more complex vision systems are vulnerable. In this paper, we study adversarial examples for vision and language models, which incorporate…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-04-09 Xiaojun Xu , Xinyun Chen , Chang Liu , Anna Rohrbach , Trevor Darrell , Dawn Song

Visual Question Answering (VQA) attracts much attention from both industry and academia. As a multi-modality task, it is challenging since it requires not only visual and textual understanding, but also the ability to align cross-modality…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-27 Peixi Xiong , Quanzeng You , Pei Yu , Zicheng Liu , Ying Wu

Despite recent advances in Vision-Language Models (VLMs), they may over-rely on visual language priors existing in their training data rather than true visual reasoning. To investigate this, we introduce ViLP, a benchmark featuring…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Tiange Luo , Ang Cao , Gunhee Lee , Justin Johnson , Honglak Lee

Visual Question Answering (VQA) has been primarily studied through the lens of the English language. Yet, tackling VQA in other languages in the same manner would require a considerable amount of resources. In this paper, we propose…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-25 Soravit Changpinyo , Linting Xue , Michal Yarom , Ashish V. Thapliyal , Idan Szpektor , Julien Amelot , Xi Chen , Radu Soricut

Most existing Visual Question Answering (VQA) systems tend to overly rely on language bias and hence fail to reason from the visual clue. To address this issue, we propose a novel Language-Prior Feedback (LPF) objective function, to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-24 Zujie Liang , Haifeng Hu , Jiaying Zhu

While sophisticated Visual Question Answering models have achieved remarkable success, they tend to answer questions only according to superficial correlations between question and answer. Several recent approaches have been developed to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-10 Qingyi Si , Zheng Lin , Mingyu Zheng , Peng Fu , Weiping Wang

Question answering (QA) systems are designed to answer natural language questions. Visual QA (VQA) and Spoken QA (SQA) systems extend the textual QA system to accept visual and spoken input respectively. This work aims to create a system…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-30 Nimrod Shabtay , Zvi Kons , Avihu Dekel , Hagai Aronowitz , Ron Hoory , Assaf Arbelle

The advancement of Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) has driven significant progress in Visual Question Answering (VQA), evolving from Single to Multi Image VQA (MVQA). However, the increased number of images in MVQA inevitably…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Kang Zeng , Guojin Zhong , Jintao Cheng , Jin Yuan , Zhiyong Li

Visual Question Answering (VQA) is a fundamental multimodal task that requires models to jointly understand visual and textual information. Early VQA systems relied heavily on language biases, motivating subsequent work to emphasize visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Nguyen Anh Tuong , Phan Ba Duc , Nguyen Trung Quoc , Tran Dac Thinh , Dang Duy Lan , Nguyen Quoc Thinh , Tung Le

Humans learn language by listening, speaking, writing, reading, and also, via interaction with the multimodal real world. Existing language pre-training frameworks show the effectiveness of text-only self-supervision while we explore the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-15 Hao Tan , Mohit Bansal

Visual question answering (VQA) is the task of answering questions about an image. The task assumes an understanding of both the image and the question to provide a natural language answer. VQA has gained popularity in recent years due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Deepanway Ghosal , Navonil Majumder , Roy Ka-Wei Lee , Rada Mihalcea , Soujanya Poria

Through a simple multiple choice language prompt a VQA model can operate as a zero-shot image classifier, producing a classification label. Compared to typical image encoders, VQA models offer an advantage: VQA-produced image embeddings can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-24 Dipika Khullar , Emmett Goodman , Negin Sokhandan

Visual Question answering is a challenging problem requiring a combination of concepts from Computer Vision and Natural Language Processing. Most existing approaches use a two streams strategy, computing image and question features that are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-02 Will Norcliffe-Brown , Efstathios Vafeias , Sarah Parisot

Learning to answer visual questions is a challenging task since the multi-modal inputs are within two feature spaces. Moreover, reasoning in visual question answering requires the model to understand both image and question, and align them…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-27 Peixi Xiong , Yilin Shen , Hongxia Jin

Medical visual question answering (VQA) is a challenging task that requires answering clinical questions of a given medical image, by taking consider of both visual and language information. However, due to the small scale of training data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-12 Pengfei Li , Gang Liu , Jinlong He , Zixu Zhao , Shenjun Zhong

We study the problem of visual question answering (VQA) in images by exploiting supervised domain adaptation, where there is a large amount of labeled data in the source domain but only limited labeled data in the target domain with the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-12 Yiming Xu , Lin Chen , Zhongwei Cheng , Lixin Duan , Jiebo Luo

Medical image visual question answering (VQA) is a task to answer clinical questions, given a radiographic image, which is a challenging problem that requires a model to integrate both vision and language information. To solve medical VQA…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Pengfei Li , Gang Liu , Lin Tan , Jinying Liao , Shenjun Zhong