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In the field of medical imaging, particularly in tasks related to early disease detection and prognosis, understanding the reasoning behind AI model predictions is imperative for assessing their reliability. Conventional explanation methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-28 Yingying Fang , Shuang Wu , Zihao Jin , Caiwen Xu , Shiyi Wang , Simon Walsh , Guang Yang

Natural language explanation in visual question answer (VQA-NLE) aims to explain the decision-making process of models by generating natural language sentences to increase users' trust in the black-box systems. Existing post-hoc methods…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-22 Chengen Lai , Shengli Song , Shiqi Meng , Jingyang Li , Sitong Yan , Guangneng Hu

Recent work on counterfactual visual explanations has contributed to making artificial intelligence models more explainable by providing visual perturbation to flip the prediction. However, these approaches neglect the causal relationships…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Yiran Qiao , Disheng Liu , Yiren Lu , Yu Yin , Mengnan Du , Jing Ma

Visual Question Answering (VQA) is a core task for evaluating the capabilities of Vision-Language Models (VLMs). Existing VQA benchmarks primarily feature clear and unambiguous image-question pairs, whereas real-world scenarios often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Jihyoung Jang , Hyounghun Kim

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

This paper proposes CQ-VQA, a novel 2-level hierarchical but end-to-end model to solve the task of visual question answering (VQA). The first level of CQ-VQA, referred to as question categorizer (QC), classifies questions to reduce the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-18 Aakansha Mishra , Ashish Anand , Prithwijit Guha

Visual question answering (VQA) is the multi-modal task of answering natural language questions about an input image. Through cross-dataset adaptation methods, it is possible to transfer knowledge from a source dataset with larger train…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Arjun R. Akula

Despite considerable recent progress in Visual Question Answering (VQA) models, inconsistent or contradictory answers continue to cast doubt on their true reasoning capabilities. However, most proposed methods use indirect strategies or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-17 Sergio Tascon-Morales , Pablo Márquez-Neila , Raphael Sznitman

The advent of AI has influenced many aspects of human life, from self-driving cars and intelligent chatbots to text-based image and video generation models capable of creating realistic images and videos based on user prompts…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Abhijay Ghildyal , Yuanhan Chen , Saman Zadtootaghaj , Nabajeet Barman , Alan C. Bovik

Counterfactual reasoning, a fundamental aspect of human cognition, involves contemplating alternatives to established facts or past events, significantly enhancing our abilities in planning and decision-making. In light of the advancements…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-17 Letian Zhang , Xiaotong Zhai , Zhongkai Zhao , Yongshuo Zong , Xin Wen , Bingchen Zhao

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

Visual question answering (VQA) is a challenging multi-modal task that requires not only the semantic understanding of both images and questions, but also the sound perception of a step-by-step reasoning process that would lead to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-06 Siwen Luo , Soyeon Caren Han , Kaiyuan Sun , Josiah Poon

We study the Knowledge-Based visual question-answering problem, for which given a question, the models need to ground it into the visual modality to find the answer. Although many recent works use question-dependent captioners to verbalize…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-06-28 Elham J. Barezi , Parisa Kordjamshidi

Teaching Visual Question Answering (VQA) models to refrain from answering unanswerable questions is necessary for building a trustworthy AI system. Existing studies, though have explored various aspects of VQA but somewhat ignored this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-22 Yangyang Guo , Fangkai Jiao , Zhiqi Shen , Liqiang Nie , Mohan Kankanhalli

This work aims to address the problem of image-based question-answering (QA) with new models and datasets. In our work, we propose to use neural networks and visual semantic embeddings, without intermediate stages such as object detection…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-12-01 Mengye Ren , Ryan Kiros , Richard Zemel

Existing work on VQA explores data augmentation to achieve better generalization by perturbing the images in the dataset or modifying the existing questions and answers. While these methods exhibit good performance, the diversity of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-01 Paola Cascante-Bonilla , Hui Wu , Letao Wang , Rogerio Feris , Vicente Ordonez

A visual counterfactual explanation replaces image regions in a query image with regions from a distractor image such that the system's decision on the transformed image changes to the distractor class. In this work, we present a novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Simon Vandenhende , Dhruv Mahajan , Filip Radenovic , Deepti Ghadiyaram

Visual Question Answering (VQA) is the task of answering natural-language questions about images. We introduce the novel problem of determining the relevance of questions to images in VQA. Current VQA models do not reason about whether a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-09-27 Arijit Ray , Gordon Christie , Mohit Bansal , Dhruv Batra , Devi Parikh

Foundation models trained on web-scraped datasets propagate societal biases to downstream tasks. While counterfactual generation enables bias analysis, existing methods introduce artifacts by modifying contextual elements like clothing and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-13 Kirill Sirotkin , Marcos Escudero-Viñolo , Pablo Carballeira , Mayug Maniparambil , Catarina Barata , Noel E. O'Connor

Visual Question Answering (VQA) is a multi-modal task that involves answering questions from an input image, semantically understanding the contents of the image and answering it in natural language. Using VQA for disaster management is an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-14 Aditya Kane , V Manushree , Sahil Khose