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Existing audio question answering benchmarks largely emphasize sound event classification or caption-grounded queries, often enabling models to succeed through shortcut strategies, short-duration cues, lexical priors, dataset-specific…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Tasnim Kabir , Dmytro Kurdydyk , Aadi Palnitkar , Liam Dorn , Ahmed Haj Ahmed , Jordan Lee Boyd-Graber

Audio Question Answering (AQA) is a key task for evaluating Audio-Language Models (ALMs), yet assessing open-ended responses remains challenging. Existing metrics used for AQA such as BLEU, METEOR and BERTScore, mostly adapted from NLP and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-07 Satvik Dixit , Soham Deshmukh , Bhiksha Raj

What does it take to design a machine that learns to answer natural questions about a video? A Video QA system must simultaneously understand language, represent visual content over space-time, and iteratively transform these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-14 Thao Minh Le , Vuong Le , Svetha Venkatesh , Truyen Tran

Visual question answering (VQA) usesimage processing algorithms to process the image and natural language processing methods to understand and answer the question. VQA is helpful to a visually impaired person, can be used for the security…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-31 Param Ahir , Hiteishi M. Diwanji

Prior benchmarks have analyzed models' answers to questions about videos in order to measure visual compositional reasoning. Action Genome Question Answering (AGQA) is one such benchmark. AGQA provides a training/test split with balanced…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-14 Madeleine Grunde-McLaughlin , Ranjay Krishna , Maneesh Agrawala

The multimodal task of Visual Question Answering (VQA) encompassing elements of Computer Vision (CV) and Natural Language Processing (NLP), aims to generate answers to questions on any visual input. Over time, the scope of VQA has expanded…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Md Farhan Ishmam , Md Sakib Hossain Shovon , M. F. Mridha , Nilanjan Dey

In recent years, visual question answering (VQA) has become topical. The premise of VQA's significance as a benchmark in AI, is that both the image and textual question need to be well understood and mutually grounded in order to infer the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-20 Feng Liu , Tao Xiang , Timothy M. Hospedales , Wankou Yang , Changyin Sun

While recent Multimodal Large Language Models exhibit impressive capabilities for general multimodal tasks, specialized domains like music necessitate tailored approaches. Music Audio-Visual Question Answering (Music AVQA) particularly…

Video understanding has achieved great success in representation learning, such as video caption, video object grounding, and video descriptive question-answer. However, current methods still struggle on video reasoning, including evidence…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Jiangtong Li , Li Niu , Liqing Zhang

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…

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

Visual Question Answering (VQA) is a recent problem in computer vision and natural language processing that has garnered a large amount of interest from the deep learning, computer vision, and natural language processing communities. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-16 Kushal Kafle , Christopher Kanan

The field of visual question answering (VQA) has recently seen a surge in research focused on providing explanations for predicted answers. However, current systems mostly rely on separate models to predict answers and generate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-14 Chenxi Whitehouse , Tillman Weyde , Pranava Madhyastha

The Visual Question Answering (VQA) task aspires to provide a meaningful testbed for the development of AI models that can jointly reason over visual and natural language inputs. Despite a proliferation of VQA datasets, this goal is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-06 Dustin Schwenk , Apoorv Khandelwal , Christopher Clark , Kenneth Marino , Roozbeh Mottaghi

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

We introduce and explore a new multimodal input representation for vision-language models: acoustic field video. Unlike conventional video (RGB with stereo/mono audio), our video stream provides a spatially grounded visualization of sound…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Daehwa Kim , Chris Harrison

Video Question Answering (VideoQA) aims to answer natural language questions according to the given videos. It has earned increasing attention with recent research trends in joint vision and language understanding. Yet, compared with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-03 Yaoyao Zhong , Junbin Xiao , Wei Ji , Yicong Li , Weihong Deng , Tat-Seng Chua

Video question answering (VQA) is a multimodal task that requires the interpretation of a video to answer a given question. Existing VQA methods primarily utilize question and answer (Q&A) pairs to learn the spatio-temporal characteristics…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Ju-Young Oh , Ho-Joong Kim , Seong-Whan Lee

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

There has been an explosion of work in the vision & language community during the past few years from image captioning to video transcription, and answering questions about images. These tasks have focused on literal descriptions of the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-06-10 Nasrin Mostafazadeh , Ishan Misra , Jacob Devlin , Margaret Mitchell , Xiaodong He , Lucy Vanderwende