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Visual Question Answering (VQA) models take an image and a natural-language question as input and infer the answer to the question. Recently, VQA systems in medical imaging have gained popularity thanks to potential advantages such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Sergio Tascon-Morales , Pablo Márquez-Neila , Raphael Sznitman

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

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

While several benefits were realized for multilingual vision-language pretrained models, recent benchmarks across various tasks and languages showed poor cross-lingual generalisation when multilingually pre-trained vision-language models…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-01 Farhad Nooralahzadeh , Rico Sennrich

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

Visual question answering (or VQA) is a new and exciting problem that combines natural language processing and computer vision techniques. We present a survey of the various datasets and models that have been used to tackle this task. The…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-05-12 Akshay Kumar Gupta

Vision-language models (VLMs) have made significant progress in recent visual-question-answering (VQA) benchmarks that evaluate complex visio-linguistic reasoning. However, are these models truly effective? In this work, we show that VLMs…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Baiqi Li , Zhiqiu Lin , Wenxuan Peng , Jean de Dieu Nyandwi , Daniel Jiang , Zixian Ma , Simran Khanuja , Ranjay Krishna , Graham Neubig , Deva Ramanan

Reading comprehension models often overfit to nuances of training datasets and fail at adversarial evaluation. Training with adversarially augmented dataset improves robustness against those adversarial attacks but hurts generalization of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-18 Adyasha Maharana , Mohit Bansal

Problems at the intersection of vision and language are of significant importance both as challenging research questions and for the rich set of applications they enable. However, inherent structure in our world and bias in our language…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-16 Yash Goyal , Tejas Khot , Douglas Summers-Stay , Dhruv Batra , Devi Parikh

Since its inception, Visual Question Answering (VQA) is notoriously known as a task, where models are prone to exploit biases in datasets to find shortcuts instead of performing high-level reasoning. Classical methods address this by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-09 Corentin Kervadec , Theo Jaunet , Grigory Antipov , Moez Baccouche , Romain Vuillemot , Christian Wolf

In visual question answering (VQA) context, users often pose ambiguous questions to visual language models (VLMs) due to varying expression habits. Existing research addresses such ambiguities primarily by rephrasing questions. These…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Pu Jian , Donglei Yu , Wen Yang , Shuo Ren , Jiajun Zhang

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

Visual Question Answering (VQA) research is split into two camps: the first focuses on VQA datasets that require natural image understanding and the second focuses on synthetic datasets that test reasoning. A good VQA algorithm should be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-08 Robik Shrestha , Kushal Kafle , Christopher Kanan

Methods for Visual Question Anwering (VQA) are notorious for leveraging dataset biases rather than performing reasoning, hindering generalization. It has been recently shown that better reasoning patterns emerge in attention layers of a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-11 Corentin Kervadec , Christian Wolf , Grigory Antipov , Moez Baccouche , Madiha Nadri

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

Since its appearance, Visual Question Answering (VQA, i.e. answering a question posed over an image), has always been treated as a classification problem over a set of predefined answers. Despite its convenience, this classification…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-09 Corentin Kervadec , Grigory Antipov , Moez Baccouche , Christian Wolf

Visual Question Answering (VQA) is an interdisciplinary field that bridges the gap between computer vision (CV) and natural language processing(NLP), enabling Artificial Intelligence(AI) systems to answer questions about images. Since its…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Anupam Pandey , Deepjyoti Bodo , Arpan Phukan , Asif Ekbal

Methodologies for training visual question answering (VQA) models assume the availability of datasets with human-annotated \textit{Image-Question-Answer} (I-Q-A) triplets. This has led to heavy reliance on datasets and a lack of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-31 Pratyay Banerjee , Tejas Gokhale , Yezhou Yang , Chitta Baral

For stability and reliability of real-world applications, the robustness of DNNs in unimodal tasks has been evaluated. However, few studies consider abnormal situations that a visual question answering (VQA) model might encounter at test…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-12 Doyup Lee , Yeongjae Cheon , Wook-Shin Han

Achieving artificial visual reasoning - the ability to answer image-related questions which require a multi-step, high-level process - is an important step towards artificial general intelligence. This multi-modal task requires learning a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-20 Ethan Perez , Harm de Vries , Florian Strub , Vincent Dumoulin , Aaron Courville