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Video Question Answering (VQA) is a recent emerging challenging task in the field of Computer Vision. Several visual information retrieval techniques like Video Captioning/Description and Video-guided Machine Translation have preceded the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-19 Devshree Patel , Ratnam Parikh , Yesha Shastri

We tackle the challenge of Visual Question Answering in multi-image setting for the ISVQA dataset. Traditional VQA tasks have focused on a single-image setting where the target answer is generated from a single image. Image set VQA,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-02 Abhinav Khattar , Aviral Joshi , Har Simrat Singh , Pulkit Goel , Rohit Prakash Barnwal

Humans apprehend the world through various sensory modalities, yet language is their predominant communication channel. Machine learning systems need to draw on the same multimodal richness to have informed discourses with humans in natural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-25 Min Wang , Ata Mahjoubfar , Anupama Joshi

Knowledge-based visual question answering (VQA) involves answering questions that require external knowledge not present in the image. Existing methods first retrieve knowledge from external resources, then reason over the selected…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-15 Zhengyuan Yang , Zhe Gan , Jianfeng Wang , Xiaowei Hu , Yumao Lu , Zicheng Liu , Lijuan Wang

In this paper, we present a novel approach for the task of eXplainable Question Answering (XQA), i.e., generating natural language (NL) explanations for the Visual Question Answering (VQA) problem. We generate NL explanations comprising of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-02-18 Shalini Ghosh , Giedrius Burachas , Arijit Ray , Avi Ziskind

Language models are becoming the default interface to factual knowledge, yet they often verify outputs more reliably than they generate them. This generation-verification gap (GV-gap) underlies many recent advances in self-improvement and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Tim R. Davidson , Anja Surina , Caglar Gulcehre

Large Language Models (LLMs) and Knowledge Graphs (KGs) offer a promising approach to robust and explainable Question Answering (QA). While LLMs excel at natural language understanding, they suffer from knowledge gaps and hallucinations.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Jasper Linders , Jakub M. Tomczak

Current Visual Question Answering (VQA) systems can answer intelligent questions about `Known' visual content. However, their performance drops significantly when questions about visually and linguistically `Unknown' concepts are presented…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-03 Moshiur R Farazi , Salman H Khan , Nick Barnes

With the rapid development of remote sensing image archives, asking questions about images has become an effective way of gathering specific information or performing semantic image retrieval. However, current automatically generated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Siran Li , Li Mi , Javiera Castillo-Navarro , Devis Tuia

We describe a method for visual question answering which is capable of reasoning about contents of an image on the basis of information extracted from a large-scale knowledge base. The method not only answers natural language questions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-11-13 Peng Wang , Qi Wu , Chunhua Shen , Anton van den Hengel , Anthony Dick

With the rapid development of remote sensing image archives, asking questions about images has become an effective way of gathering specific information or performing image retrieval. However, automatically generated image-based questions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Siran Li , Li Mi , Javiera Castillo-Navarro , Devis Tuia

Most existing research on visual question answering (VQA) is limited to information explicitly present in an image or a video. In this paper, we take visual understanding to a higher level where systems are challenged to answer questions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-14 Shailaja Keyur Sampat , Akshay Kumar , Yezhou Yang , Chitta Baral

This study explores innovative methods for improving Visual Question Answering (VQA) using Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), autoencoders, and attention mechanisms. Leveraging a balanced VQA dataset, we investigate three distinct…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-13 Panfeng Li , Qikai Yang , Xieming Geng , Wenjing Zhou , Zhicheng Ding , Yi Nian

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

This paper focuses on answering fill-in-the-blank style multiple choice questions from the Visual Madlibs dataset. Previous approaches to Visual Question Answering (VQA) have mainly used generic image features from networks trained on the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-08-12 Tatiana Tommasi , Arun Mallya , Bryan Plummer , Svetlana Lazebnik , Alexander C. Berg , Tamara L. Berg

Question answering over knowledge bases (KBQA) has become a popular approach to help users extract information from knowledge bases. Although several systems exist, choosing one suitable for a particular application scenario is difficult.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-16 Khiem Vinh Tran , Hao Phu Phan , Khang Nguyen Duc Quach , Ngan Luu-Thuy Nguyen , Jun Jo , Thanh Tam Nguyen

Visual Question Answering (VQA) is a challenging task of predicting the answer to a question about the content of an image. Prior works directly evaluate the answering models by simply calculating the accuracy of predicted answers. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Kun Li , George Vosselman , Michael Ying Yang

Designing datasets for Visual Question Answering (VQA) is a difficult and complex task that requires NLP for parsing and computer vision for analysing the relevant aspects of the image for answering the question asked. Several benchmark…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-06 Madhuri Latha Madaka , Chakravarthy Bhagvati

Visual question answering (VQA) often requires an understanding of visual concepts and language semantics, which relies on external knowledge. Most existing methods exploit pre-trained language models or/and unstructured text, but the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Zhuo Chen , Yufeng Huang , Jiaoyan Chen , Yuxia Geng , Yin Fang , Jeff Pan , Ningyu Zhang , Wen Zhang

Zero-shot visual question answering (ZS-VQA), an emerged critical research area, intends to answer visual questions without providing training samples. Existing research in ZS-VQA has proposed to leverage knowledge graphs or large language…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-23 Qian Tao , Xiaoyang Fan , Yong Xu , Xingquan Zhu , Yufei Tang