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Visual question answering (VQA) is a task where an image is given, and a series of questions are asked about the image. To build an efficient VQA algorithm, a large amount of QA data is required which is very expensive. Generating synthetic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-23 Taehee Kim , Yeongjae Cho , Heejun Shin , Yohan Jo , Dongmyung Shin

Document Visual Question Answering (DocVQA) requires models to jointly understand textual semantics, spatial layout, and visual features. Current methods struggle with explicit spatial relationship modeling, inefficiency with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Ahmad Mohammadshirazi , Pinaki Prasad Guha Neogi , Dheeraj Kulshrestha , Rajiv Ramnath

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have shown impressive capabilities in jointly understanding text, images, and videos, often evaluated via Visual Question Answering (VQA). However, even state-of-the-art MLLMs struggle with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Alberto Compagnoni , Marco Morini , Sara Sarto , Federico Cocchi , Davide Caffagni , Marcella Cornia , Lorenzo Baraldi , Rita Cucchiara

Visual question answering is concerned with answering free-form questions about an image. Since it requires a deep linguistic understanding of the question and the ability to associate it with various objects that are present in the image,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-03 Marcel Hildebrandt , Hang Li , Rajat Koner , Volker Tresp , Stephan Günnemann

We have seen great progress in basic perceptual tasks such as object recognition and detection. However, AI models still fail to match humans in high-level vision tasks due to the lack of capacities for deeper reasoning. Recently the new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-04-12 Yuke Zhu , Oliver Groth , Michael Bernstein , Li Fei-Fei

Visual Question Answering (VQA) models employ attention mechanisms to discover image locations that are most relevant for answering a specific question. For this purpose, several multimodal fusion strategies have been proposed, ranging from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-26 Moshiur R Farazi , Salman H Khan , Nick Barnes

In this work, we introduce VQA 360, a novel task of visual question answering on 360 images. Unlike a normal field-of-view image, a 360 image captures the entire visual content around the optical center of a camera, demanding more…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-13 Shih-Han Chou , Wei-Lun Chao , Wei-Sheng Lai , Min Sun , Ming-Hsuan Yang

Visual reasoning over structured data such as tables is a critical capability for modern vision-language models (VLMs), yet current benchmarks remain limited in scale, diversity, or reasoning depth, especially when it comes to rendered…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Boammani Aser Lompo , Marc Haraoui

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

We propose a method for visual question answering which combines an internal representation of the content of an image with information extracted from a general knowledge base to answer a broad range of image-based questions. This allows…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-04-15 Qi Wu , Peng Wang , Chunhua Shen , Anthony Dick , Anton van den Hengel

A number of studies have found that today's Visual Question Answering (VQA) models are heavily driven by superficial correlations in the training data and lack sufficient image grounding. To encourage development of models geared towards…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-05 Aishwarya Agrawal , Dhruv Batra , Devi Parikh , Aniruddha Kembhavi

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

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

Recently visual question answering (VQA) and visual question generation (VQG) are two trending topics in the computer vision, which have been explored separately. In this work, we propose an end-to-end unified framework, the Invertible…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-22 Yikang Li , Nan Duan , Bolei Zhou , Xiao Chu , Wanli Ouyang , Xiaogang Wang

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

Visual Question Answering (VQA) is the task of answering questions based on image content. Building upon this, Knowledge-Based VQA (KB-VQA) requires models to answer questions that depend on external knowledge beyond the visual content of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Wei Ye , Yixin Su , Yueguo Chen , Longxiang Gao , Jianjun Li , Ruixuan Li , Rui Zhang

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 Query Answering (VQA) is of great significance in offering people convenience: one can raise a question for details of objects, or high-level understanding about the scene, over an image. This paper proposes a novel method to address…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-19 Peixi Xiong , Huayi Zhan , Xin Wang , Baivab Sinha , Ying Wu

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

In this paper, we focus on the Audio-Visual Question Answering (AVQA) task, which aims to answer questions regarding different visual objects, sounds, and their associations in videos. The problem requires comprehensive multimodal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-06 Guangyao Li , Yake Wei , Yapeng Tian , Chenliang Xu , Ji-Rong Wen , Di Hu