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Medical Visual Question Answering (MedVQA) presents a significant opportunity to enhance diagnostic accuracy and healthcare delivery by leveraging artificial intelligence to interpret and answer questions based on medical images. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Xiaoman Zhang , Chaoyi Wu , Ziheng Zhao , Weixiong Lin , Ya Zhang , Yanfeng Wang , Weidi Xie

We present a novel framework for iterative visual reasoning. Our framework goes beyond current recognition systems that lack the capability to reason beyond stack of convolutions. The framework consists of two core modules: a local module…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-30 Xinlei Chen , Li-Jia Li , Li Fei-Fei , Abhinav Gupta

As new data-sets for real-world visual reasoning and compositional question answering are emerging, it might be needed to use the visual feature extraction as a end-to-end process during training. This small contribution aims to suggest new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-01 Jean-Benoit Delbrouck , Antoine Maiorca , Nathan Hubens , Stéphane Dupont

Medical Visual Question Answering (MedVQA) is crucial for enhancing the efficiency of clinical diagnosis by providing accurate and timely responses to clinicians' inquiries regarding medical images. Existing MedVQA models suffered from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Shuchang Ye , Usman Naseem , Mingyuan Meng , Dagan Feng , Jinman Kim

Counting is one of the fundamental abilities of large language models (LLMs) and large vision-language models (LVLMs). This paper examines how these foundation models represent and compute numerical information in counting tasks. We use…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Hosein Hasani , Amirmohammad Izadi , Fatemeh Askari , Mobin Bagherian , Sadegh Mohammadian , Mohammad Izadi , Mahdieh Soleymani Baghshah

Counting objects in digital images is a process that should be replaced by machines. This tedious task is time consuming and prone to errors due to fatigue of human annotators. The goal is to have a system that takes as input an image and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-25 Joseph Paul Cohen , Genevieve Boucher , Craig A. Glastonbury , Henry Z. Lo , Yoshua Bengio

Despite strong performance in visual understanding and language-based reasoning, Vision-Language Models (VLMs) struggle with tasks requiring integrated perception and symbolic computation. We study this limitation through visual equation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Monjoy Narayan Choudhury , Junling Wang , Yifan Hou , Mrinmaya Sachan

In the rapidly advancing field of image generation, Visual Auto-Regressive (VAR) modeling has garnered considerable attention for its innovative next-scale prediction approach. This paradigm offers substantial improvements in efficiency,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-28 Zigeng Chen , Xinyin Ma , Gongfan Fang , Xinchao Wang

The brain interprets visual information through learned regularities, a computation formalized as probabilistic inference under a prior. The visual cortex establishes priors for this inference, some delivered through established top-down…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2026-02-13 Balázs Meszéna , Keith T. Murray , Julien Corbo , O. Batuhan Erkat , Márton A. Hajnal , Pierre-Olivier Polack , Gergő Orbán

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) achieve ever-stronger performance on visual-language tasks. Even as traditional visual question answering (VQA) benchmarks approach saturation, reliable deployment requires satisfying low error…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Hector G. Rodriguez , Marcus Rohrbach

Existing visual reasoning datasets such as Visual Question Answering (VQA), often suffer from biases conditioned on the question, image or answer distributions. The recently proposed CLEVR dataset addresses these limitations and requires…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-23 Ning Xie , Farley Lai , Derek Doran , Asim Kadav

Multi-modal reasoning in visual question answering (VQA) has witnessed rapid progress recently. However, most reasoning models heavily rely on shortcuts learned from training data, which prevents their usage in challenging real-world…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Qi Zheng , Chaoyue Wang , Daqing Liu , Dadong Wang , Dacheng Tao

Visual question answering (VQA) has traditionally been treated as a single-step task where each question receives the same amount of effort, unlike natural human question-answering strategies. We explore a question decomposition strategy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Zaid Khan , Vijay Kumar BG , Samuel Schulter , Manmohan Chandraker , Yun Fu

Visual question answering (VQA) is challenging because it requires a simultaneous understanding of both visual content of images and textual content of questions. To support the VQA task, we need to find good solutions for the following…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-17 Zhou Yu , Jun Yu , Chenchao Xiang , Jianping Fan , Dacheng Tao

Pretrained Vision Transformers (ViTs) such as DINOv2 and MAE provide generic image features that can be applied to a variety of downstream tasks such as retrieval, classification, and segmentation. However, such representations tend to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Jona Ruthardt , Manu Gaur , Deva Ramanan , Makarand Tapaswi , Yuki M. Asano

Efficient image tokenization with high compression ratios remains a critical challenge for training generative models. We present SoftVQ-VAE, a continuous image tokenizer that leverages soft categorical posteriors to aggregate multiple…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Hao Chen , Ze Wang , Xiang Li , Ximeng Sun , Fangyi Chen , Jiang Liu , Jindong Wang , Bhiksha Raj , Zicheng Liu , Emad Barsoum

Visual question answering (VQA) demands simultaneous comprehension of both the image visual content and natural language questions. In some cases, the reasoning needs the help of common sense or general knowledge which usually appear in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-30 Hui Li , Peng Wang , Chunhua Shen , Anton van den Hengel

Advances in multi-modal embeddings, and in particular CLIP, have recently driven several breakthroughs in Computer Vision (CV). CLIP has shown impressive performance on a variety of tasks, yet, its inherently opaque architecture may hinder…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Loris Giulivi , Giacomo Boracchi

Recent advances in unified multimodal models (UMMs) have enabled impressive progress in visual comprehension and generation. However, existing datasets and benchmarks focus primarily on single-turn interactions, failing to capture the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Wei Chow , Jiachun Pan , Yongyuan Liang , Mingze Zhou , Xue Song , Liyu Jia , Saining Zhang , Siliang Tang , Juncheng Li , Fengda Zhang , Weijia Wu , Hanwang Zhang , Tat-Seng Chua

Medical images are often more difficult to acquire than natural images due to the specialism of the equipment and technology, which leads to less medical image datasets. So it is hard to train a strong pretrained medical vision model. How…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Haijiang Tian , Jingkun Yue , Xiaohong Liu , Guoxing Yang , Zeyu Jiang , Guangyu Wang