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Question-Answering (QA) from technical documents often involves questions whose answers are present in figures, such as flowcharts or flow diagrams. Text-based Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) systems may fail to answer such questions.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Sumit Soman , H. G. Ranjani , Sujoy Roychowdhury , Venkata Dharma Surya Narayana Sastry , Akshat Jain , Pranav Gangrade , Ayaaz Khan

One of the most intriguing features of the Visual Question Answering (VQA) challenge is the unpredictability of the questions. Extracting the information required to answer them demands a variety of image operations from detection and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-12-19 Peng Wang , Qi Wu , Chunhua Shen , Anton van den Hengel

Medical Visual Question Answering~(VQA) is a combination of medical artificial intelligence and popular VQA challenges. Given a medical image and a clinically relevant question in natural language, the medical VQA system is expected to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-12 Zhihong Lin , Donghao Zhang , Qingyi Tao , Danli Shi , Gholamreza Haffari , Qi Wu , Mingguang He , Zongyuan Ge

This paper introduces speech-based visual question answering (VQA), the task of generating an answer given an image and a spoken question. Two methods are studied: an end-to-end, deep neural network that directly uses audio waveforms as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-09-19 Ted Zhang , Dengxin Dai , Tinne Tuytelaars , Marie-Francine Moens , Luc Van Gool

We propose a novel model to address the task of Visual Dialog which exhibits complex dialog structures. To obtain a reasonable answer based on the current question and the dialog history, the underlying semantic dependencies between dialog…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-30 Zilong Zheng , Wenguan Wang , Siyuan Qi , Song-Chun Zhu

Visual Question Answering (VQA) has emerged as a pivotal task in the intersection of computer vision and natural language processing, requiring models to understand and reason about visual content in response to natural language questions.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Aiswarya Baby , Tintu Thankom Koshy

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

How to select relevant key objects and reason about the complex relationships cross vision and linguistic domain are two key issues in many multi-modality applications such as visual question answering (VQA). In this work, we incorporate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Zongzhao Li , Xiangyu Zhu , Xi Zhang , Zhaoxiang Zhang , Zhen Lei

Visual question answering (VQA) systems are emerging from a desire to empower users to ask any natural language question about visual content and receive a valid answer in response. However, close examination of the VQA problem reveals an…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-08-30 Danna Gurari , Kristen Grauman

Many vision and language tasks require commonsense reasoning beyond data-driven image and natural language processing. Here we adopt Visual Question Answering (VQA) as an example task, where a system is expected to answer a question in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-26 Somak Aditya , Yezhou Yang , Chitta Baral

The Visual Question Answering (VQA) task utilizes both visual image and language analysis to answer a textual question with respect to an image. It has been a popular research topic with an increasing number of real-world applications in…

Explainable artificial intelligence (XAI) aims to make machine learning models more transparent. While many approaches focus on generating explanations post-hoc, interpretable approaches, which generate the explanations intrinsically…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-12 Pascal Tilli , Ngoc Thang Vu

Medical Visual Question Answering (MedVQA) aims to answer medical questions according to medical images. However, the complexity of medical data leads to confounders that are difficult to observe, so bias between images and questions is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Zibo Xu , Qiang Li , Weizhi Nie , Weijie Wang , Anan Liu

Graph querying is the process of retrieving information from graph data using specialized languages (e.g., Cypher), often requiring programming expertise. Visual Graph Querying (VGQ) streamlines this process by enabling users to construct…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Xiaolin Wen , Qishuang Fu , Shuangyue Han , Yichen Guo , Joseph K. Liu , Yong Wang

A number of studies have found that today's Visual Question Answering (VQA) models are heavily driven by superficial correlations in the training data and lack sufficient image grounding. To encourage development of models geared towards…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-05 Aishwarya Agrawal , Dhruv Batra , Devi Parikh , Aniruddha Kembhavi

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

Visual Grounding (VG) methods in Visual Question Answering (VQA) attempt to improve VQA performance by strengthening a model's reliance on question-relevant visual information. The presence of such relevant information in the visual input…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-16 Daniel Reich , Tanja Schultz

Video Question Answering (VideoQA) is the task of answering questions about a video. At its core is understanding the alignments between visual scenes in video and linguistic semantics in question to yield the answer. In leading VideoQA…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Yicong Li , Xiang Wang , Junbin Xiao , Wei Ji , Tat-Seng Chua

We propose Visual Query Detection (VQD), a new visual grounding task. In VQD, a system is guided by natural language to localize a variable number of objects in an image. VQD is related to visual referring expression recognition, where the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-15 Manoj Acharya , Karan Jariwala , Christopher Kanan

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