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Automatic Chart Question Answering (ChartQA) is challenging due to the complex distribution of chart elements with patterns of the underlying data not explicitly displayed in charts. To address this challenge, we design a joint multimodal…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-12 Yue Dai , Soyeon Caren Han , Wei Liu

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

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

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…

Chart question-answering (QA) benchmarks aim to pose questions that require visual reasoning to correctly answer, but models can often reach solutions through shortcuts or prior familiarity with a chart based on their own background…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Yifan Jiang , Dae Yon Hwang , Jesse C. Cresswell , Freda Shi

Answering open-ended questions is an essential capability for any intelligent agent. One of the most interesting recent open-ended question answering challenges is Visual Question Answering (VQA) which attempts to evaluate a system's visual…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-10-25 Omid Bakhshandeh , Trung Bui , Zhe Lin , Walter Chang

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

Chart question answering (ChartQA) is challenged by the heterogeneous composition of chart elements and the subtle data patterns they encode. This work introduces a novel joint multimodal scene graph framework that explicitly models the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Yue Dai , Soyeon Caren Han , Wei Liu

Visual Question and Answering (VQA) problems are attracting increasing interest from multiple research disciplines. Solving VQA problems requires techniques from both computer vision for understanding the visual contents of a presented…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-04-07 Ilija Ilievski , Shuicheng Yan , Jiashi Feng

Charts are very popular for analyzing data. When exploring charts, people often ask a variety of complex reasoning questions that involve several logical and arithmetic operations. They also commonly refer to visual features of a chart in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Ahmed Masry , Do Xuan Long , Jia Qing Tan , Shafiq Joty , Enamul Hoque

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

Multimodal vision-language models (VLMs) continue to achieve ever-improving scores on chart understanding benchmarks. Yet, we find that this progress does not fully capture the breadth of visual reasoning capabilities essential for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Kushin Mukherjee , Donghao Ren , Dominik Moritz , Yannick Assogba

To contribute to automating the medical vision-language model, we propose a novel Chest-Xray Difference Visual Question Answering (VQA) task. Given a pair of main and reference images, this task attempts to answer several questions on both…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-29 Xinyue Hu , Lin Gu , Qiyuan An , Mengliang Zhang , Liangchen Liu , Kazuma Kobayashi , Tatsuya Harada , Ronald M. Summers , Yingying Zhu

Medical Visual Question Answering (Med-VQA) answers clinical questions using medical images, aiding diagnosis. Designing the MedVQA system holds profound importance in assisting clinical diagnosis and enhancing diagnostic accuracy. Building…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-11 Junkai Zhang , Bin Li , Shoujun Zhou , Yue Du

We consider the problem of Visual Question Answering (VQA). Given an image and a free-form, open-ended, question, expressed in natural language, the goal of VQA system is to provide accurate answer to this question with respect to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-07 Tanzila Rahman , Shih-Han Chou , Leonid Sigal , Giuseppe Carenini

In this paper, we propose a novel end-to-end trainable Video Question Answering (VideoQA) framework with three major components: 1) a new heterogeneous memory which can effectively learn global context information from appearance and motion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-10 Chenyou Fan , Xiaofan Zhang , Shu Zhang , Wensheng Wang , Chi Zhang , Heng Huang

Visual Question Answering (VQA) is of tremendous interest to the research community with important applications such as aiding visually impaired users and image-based search. In this work, we explore the use of scene graphs for solving the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-19 Vinay Damodaran , Sharanya Chakravarthy , Akshay Kumar , Anjana Umapathy , Teruko Mitamura , Yuta Nakashima , Noa Garcia , Chenhui Chu

In visual question answering (VQA), an algorithm must answer text-based questions about images. While multiple datasets for VQA have been created since late 2014, they all have flaws in both their content and the way algorithms are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-15 Kushal Kafle , Christopher Kanan

The predominant approach to Visual Question Answering (VQA) demands that the model represents within its weights all of the information required to answer any question about any image. Learning this information from any real training set…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-23 Damien Teney , Anton van den Hengel

Recently, the Visual Question Answering (VQA) task has gained increasing attention in artificial intelligence. Existing VQA methods mainly adopt the visual attention mechanism to associate the input question with corresponding image regions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-02 Pan Lu , Hongsheng Li , Wei Zhang , Jianyong Wang , Xiaogang Wang