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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

Visual Question Answering (VQA) is an extremely stimulating and challenging research area where Computer Vision (CV) and Natural Language Processig (NLP) have recently met. In image captioning and video summarization, the semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-09 Silvio Barra , Carmen Bisogni , Maria De Marsico , Stefano Ricciardi

Knowledge-based Visual Question Answering (KVQA) requires external knowledge beyond the visible content to answer questions about an image. This ability is challenging but indispensable to achieve general VQA. One limitation of existing…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-11-04 Jing Yu , Zihao Zhu , Yujing Wang , Weifeng Zhang , Yue Hu , Jianlong Tan

Visual question answering (VQA) has recently been introduced to remote sensing to make information extraction from overhead imagery more accessible to everyone. VQA considers a question (in natural language, therefore easy to formulate)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-27 Christel Chappuis , Sylvain Lobry , Benjamin Kellenberger , Bertrand Le Saux , Devis Tuia

Integrating outside knowledge for reasoning in visio-linguistic tasks such as visual question answering (VQA) is an open problem. Given that pretrained language models have been shown to include world knowledge, we propose to use a unimodal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-14 Ander Salaberria , Gorka Azkune , Oier Lopez de Lacalle , Aitor Soroa , Eneko Agirre

Visual Question Answering (VQA) concerns providing answers to Natural Language questions about images. Several deep neural network approaches have been proposed to model the task in an end-to-end fashion. Whereas the task is grounded in…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-02-03 Mehrdad Alizadeh , Barbara Di Eugenio

Image captioning models generally lack the capability to take into account user interest, and usually default to global descriptions that try to balance readability, informativeness, and information overload. On the other hand, VQA models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-12 Edwin G. Ng , Bo Pang , Piyush Sharma , Radu Soricut

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

Paragraph generation from images, which has gained popularity recently, is an important task for video summarization, editing, and support of the disabled. Traditional image captioning methods fall short on this front, since they aren't…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-05 Moitreya Chatterjee , Alexander G. Schwing

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

Recent research advances in Computer Vision and Natural Language Processing have introduced novel tasks that are paving the way for solving AI-complete problems. One of those tasks is called Visual Question Answering (VQA). A VQA system…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-30 Camila Kolling , Jônatas Wehrmann , Rodrigo C. Barros

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

Acquiring high-quality knowledge is a central focus in Knowledge-Based Visual Question Answering (KB-VQA). Recent methods use large language models (LLMs) as knowledge engines for answering. These methods generally employ image captions as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Yan Zhang , Jiaqing Lin , Miao Zhang , Kui Xiao , Xiaoju Hou , Yue Zhao , Zhifei Li

We propose a method for visual question answering which combines an internal representation of the content of an image with information extracted from a general knowledge base to answer a broad range of image-based questions. This allows…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-04-15 Qi Wu , Peng Wang , Chunhua Shen , Anthony Dick , Anton van den Hengel

Most existing works in visual question answering (VQA) are dedicated to improving the accuracy of predicted answers, while disregarding the explanations. We argue that the explanation for an answer is of the same or even more importance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-28 Qing Li , Qingyi Tao , Shafiq Joty , Jianfei Cai , Jiebo Luo

A key solution to visual question answering (VQA) exists in how to fuse visual and language features extracted from an input image and question. We show that an attention mechanism that enables dense, bi-directional interactions between the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-04 Duy-Kien Nguyen , Takayuki Okatani

Visual Question Answering (VQA) is a challenging task that requires systems to provide accurate answers to questions based on image content. Current VQA models struggle with complex questions due to limitations in capturing and integrating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Peiyuan Chen , Zecheng Zhang , Yiping Dong , Li Zhou , Han Wang

Text-based VQA aims at answering questions by reading the text present in the images. It requires a large amount of scene-text relationship understanding compared to the VQA task. Recent studies have shown that the question-answer pairs in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-02 Shamanthak Hegde , Soumya Jahagirdar , Shankar Gangisetty

Video Question Answering (VQA) inherently relies on multimodal reasoning, integrating visual, temporal, and linguistic cues to achieve a deeper understanding of video content. However, many existing methods rely on feeding frame-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Noriyuki Kugo , Xiang Li , Zixin Li , Ashish Gupta , Arpandeep Khatua , Nidhish Jain , Chaitanya Patel , Yuta Kyuragi , Yasunori Ishii , Masamoto Tanabiki , Kazuki Kozuka , Ehsan Adeli

Recently, Visual Question Answering (VQA) has emerged as one of the most significant tasks in multimodal learning as it requires understanding both visual and textual modalities. Existing methods mainly rely on extracting image and question…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-23 Pan Lu , Lei Ji , Wei Zhang , Nan Duan , Ming Zhou , Jianyong Wang