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The intersection of vision and language is of major interest due to the increased focus on seamless integration between recognition and reasoning. Scene graphs (SGs) have emerged as a useful tool for multimodal image analysis, showing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-04 Bruno Souza , Marius Aasan , Helio Pedrini , Adín Ramírez Rivera

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated substantial efficacy in advancing graph-structured data analysis. Prevailing LLM-based graph methods excel in adapting LLMs to text-rich graphs, wherein node attributes are text descriptions.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Dongzhe Fan , Yi Fang , Jiajin Liu , Djellel Difallah , Qiaoyu Tan

We present Multiple-Question Multiple-Answer (MQMA), a novel approach to do text-VQA in encoder-decoder transformer models. The text-VQA task requires a model to answer a question by understanding multi-modal content: text (typically from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-16 Peng Tang , Srikar Appalaraju , R. Manmatha , Yusheng Xie , Vijay Mahadevan

Visual question answering (VQA) is a challenging task to provide an accurate natural language answer given an image and a natural language question about the image. It involves multi-modal learning, i.e., computer vision (CV) and natural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Luoqian Jiang , Yifan He , Jian Chen

Visual question answering (VQA) usesimage processing algorithms to process the image and natural language processing methods to understand and answer the question. VQA is helpful to a visually impaired person, can be used for the security…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-31 Param Ahir , Hiteishi M. Diwanji

Sparse attention as a efficient method can significantly decrease the computation cost, but current sparse attention tend to rely on window self attention which block the global information flow. For this problem, we present Shifted Cross…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-13 Yuxiang Guo

The Visual Question Answering (VQA) task requires the simultaneous understanding of image content and question semantics. However, existing methods often have difficulty handling complex reasoning scenarios due to insufficient cross-modal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Weikai Sun , Shijie Song , Han Wang

Attention mechanisms have been widely used in Visual Question Answering (VQA) solutions due to their capacity to model deep cross-domain interactions. Analyzing attention maps offers us a perspective to find out limitations of current VQA…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-10 Wei Li , Zehuan Yuan , Xiangzhong Fang , Changhu Wang

In recent years, multi-modal transformers have shown significant progress in Vision-Language tasks, such as Visual Question Answering (VQA), outperforming previous architectures by a considerable margin. This improvement in VQA is often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-12 Ankur Sikarwar , Gabriel Kreiman

Earth vision research typically focuses on extracting geospatial object locations and categories but neglects the exploration of relations between objects and comprehensive reasoning. Based on city planning needs, we develop a multi-modal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-20 Junjue Wang , Zhuo Zheng , Zihang Chen , Ailong Ma , Yanfei Zhong

We introduce GQA, a new dataset for real-world visual reasoning and compositional question answering, seeking to address key shortcomings of previous VQA datasets. We have developed a strong and robust question engine that leverages scene…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-07-12 Drew A. Hudson , Christopher D. Manning

Textbook Question Answering (TQA) is a task that one should answer a diagram/non-diagram question given a large multi-modal context consisting of abundant essays and diagrams. We argue that the explainability of this task should place…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Jie Ma , Qi Chai , Jun Liu , Qingyu Yin , Pinghui Wang , Qinghua Zheng

Human-like attention as a supervisory signal to guide neural attention has shown significant promise but is currently limited to uni-modal integration - even for inherently multimodal tasks such as visual question answering (VQA). We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Ekta Sood , Fabian Kögel , Philipp Müller , Dominike Thomas , Mihai Bace , Andreas Bulling

Generalization in Visual Question Answering (VQA) requires models to answer questions about images with contexts beyond the training distribution. Existing attempts primarily refine unimodal aspects, overlooking enhancements in multimodal…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Trang Nguyen , Naoaki Okazaki

Visual Question Answering (VQA) is challenging due to the complex cross-modal relations. It has received extensive attention from the research community. From the human perspective, to answer a visual question, one needs to read the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Hantao Huang , Tao Han , Wei Han , Deep Yap , Cheng-Ming Chiang

Interpretable driver attention prediction is crucial for human-like autonomous driving. However, existing datasets provide only scene-level global gaze rather than fine-grained object-level annotations, inherently failing to support…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Zehong Ke , Yanbo Jiang , Jinhao Li , Zhiyuan Liu , Yiqian Tu , Qingwen Meng , Heye Huang , Jianqiang Wang

We present VQA-MHUG - a novel 49-participant dataset of multimodal human gaze on both images and questions during visual question answering (VQA) collected using a high-speed eye tracker. We use our dataset to analyze the similarity between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Ekta Sood , Fabian Kögel , Florian Strohm , Prajit Dhar , Andreas Bulling

We introduce a tree-structured attention neural network for sentences and small phrases and apply it to the problem of sentiment classification. Our model expands the current recursive models by incorporating structural information around a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-01-10 Filippos Kokkinos , Alexandros Potamianos

Answer grounding is the task of locating relevant visual evidence for the Visual Question Answering task. While a wide variety of attention methods have been introduced for this task, they suffer from the following three problems: designs…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-22 Seyedalireza Khoshsirat , Chandra Kambhamettu

Visual question answering (VQA) requires systems to perform concept-level reasoning by unifying unstructured (e.g., the context in question and answer; "QA context") and structured (e.g., knowledge graph for the QA context and scene;…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-18 Yanan Wang , Michihiro Yasunaga , Hongyu Ren , Shinya Wada , Jure Leskovec