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AI systems' ability to explain their reasoning is critical to their utility and trustworthiness. Deep neural networks have enabled significant progress on many challenging problems such as visual question answering (VQA). However, most of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-05 Jialin Wu , Raymond J. Mooney

We present an empirical study of active learning for Visual Question Answering, where a deep VQA model selects informative question-image pairs from a pool and queries an oracle for answers to maximally improve its performance under a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-07 Xiao Lin , Devi Parikh

A number of recent works have proposed attention models for Visual Question Answering (VQA) that generate spatial maps highlighting image regions relevant to answering the question. In this paper, we argue that in addition to modeling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-01-20 Jiasen Lu , Jianwei Yang , Dhruv Batra , Devi Parikh

We address a question answering task on real-world images that is set up as a Visual Turing Test. By combining latest advances in image representation and natural language processing, we propose Neural-Image-QA, an end-to-end formulation to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-10-02 Mateusz Malinowski , Marcus Rohrbach , Mario Fritz

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

Bar charts are an effective way to convey numeric information, but today's algorithms cannot parse them. Existing methods fail when faced with even minor variations in appearance. Here, we present DVQA, a dataset that tests many aspects of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-30 Kushal Kafle , Brian Price , Scott Cohen , Christopher Kanan

Visual question answering on document images that contain textual, visual, and layout information, called document VQA, has received much attention recently. Although many datasets have been proposed for developing document VQA systems,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-01-13 Ryota Tanaka , Kyosuke Nishida , Kosuke Nishida , Taku Hasegawa , Itsumi Saito , Kuniko Saito

Visual Question Answering (VQA) has received a lot of attention over the past couple of years. A number of deep learning models have been proposed for this task. However, it has been shown that these models are heavily driven by superficial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-27 Aishwarya Agrawal , Aniruddha Kembhavi , Dhruv Batra , Devi Parikh

Visual Question Answering (VQA) requires models to reason over multimodal information, combining visual and textual data. With the development of continual learning, significant progress has been made in retaining knowledge and adapting to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Zhifei Li , Yiran Wang , Chenyi Xiong , Yujing Xia , Xiaoju Hou , Yue Zhao , Miao Zhang , Kui Xiao , Bing Yang

Visual Question Answering (VQA) has achieved great success thanks to the fast development of deep neural networks (DNN). On the other hand, the data augmentation, as one of the major tricks for DNN, has been widely used in many computer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Ruixue Tang , Chao Ma , Wei Emma Zhang , Qi Wu , Xiaokang Yang

In visual question answering (VQA), a machine must answer a question given an associated image. Recently, accessibility researchers have explored whether VQA can be deployed in a real-world setting where users with visual impairments learn…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-28 Yang Trista Cao , Kyle Seelman , Kyungjun Lee , Hal Daumé

Embodied Question Answering (EQA) is a recently proposed task, where an agent is placed in a rich 3D environment and must act based solely on its egocentric input to answer a given question. The desired outcome is that the agent learns to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-15 Cătălina Cangea , Eugene Belilovsky , Pietro Liò , Aaron Courville

Visual Question Answering (VQA) has emerged as a Visual Turing Test to validate the reasoning ability of AI agents. The pivot to existing VQA models is the joint embedding that is learned by combining the visual features from an image and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-22 Moshiur R. Farazi , Salman H. Khan , Nick Barnes

The intersection of medical Visual Question Answering (Med-VQA) is a challenging research topic with advantages including patient engagement and clinical expert involvement for second opinions. However, existing Med-VQA methods based on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-24 Lin Fan , Xun Gong , Cenyang Zheng , Yafei Ou

This paper proposes a new task, MemexQA: given a collection of photos or videos from a user, the goal is to automatically answer questions that help users recover their memory about events captured in the collection. Towards solving the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-07 Lu Jiang , Junwei Liang , Liangliang Cao , Yannis Kalantidis , Sachin Farfade , Alexander Hauptmann

Answer selection and knowledge base question answering (KBQA) are two important tasks of question answering (QA) systems. Existing methods solve these two tasks separately, which requires large number of repetitive work and neglects the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-12-07 Yang Deng , Yuexiang Xie , Yaliang Li , Min Yang , Nan Du , Wei Fan , Kai Lei , Ying Shen

Visual Question Answering (VQA) requires AI models to comprehend data in two domains, vision and text. Current state-of-the-art models use learned attention mechanisms to extract relevant information from the input domains to answer a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-03-27 Ahmed Osman , Wojciech Samek

Current tasks and methods in Document Understanding aims to process documents as single elements. However, documents are usually organized in collections (historical records, purchase invoices), that provide context useful for their…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Rubèn Tito , Dimosthenis Karatzas , Ernest Valveny

Visual question answering (VQA) is a task of answering a visual question that is a pair of question and image. Some visual questions are ambiguous and some are clear, and it may be appropriate to change the ambiguity of questions from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-02 Kento Terao , Toru Tamaki , Bisser Raytchev , Kazufumi Kaneda , Shun'ichi Satoh

The problem of realistic VQA (RVQA), where a model has to reject unanswerable questions (UQs) and answer answerable ones (AQs), is studied. We first point out 2 drawbacks in current RVQA research, where (1) datasets contain too many…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-10 Yuwei Zhang , Chih-Hui Ho , Nuno Vasconcelos