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Knowledge-based visual question answering (KVQA) task aims to answer questions that require additional external knowledge as well as an understanding of images and questions. Recent studies on KVQA inject an external knowledge in a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-28 Jinyeong Chae , Jihie Kim

A question answering (QA) system is a type of conversational AI that generates natural language answers to questions posed by human users. QA systems often form the backbone of interactive dialogue systems, and have been studied extensively…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-01-12 Aakash Bansal , Zachary Eberhart , Lingfei Wu , Collin McMillan

We study visual question answering in a setting where the answer has to be mined from a pool of relevant and irrelevant images given as a context. For such a setting, a model must first retrieve relevant images from the pool and answer the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-30 Abhirama Subramanyam Penamakuri , Manish Gupta , Mithun Das Gupta , Anand Mishra

Visual Question Generation (VQG) is a task to generate questions from images. When humans ask questions about an image, their goal is often to acquire some new knowledge. However, existing studies on VQG have mainly addressed question…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-16 Kohei Uehara , Tatsuya Harada

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

Question answering (QA) systems are designed to answer natural language questions. Visual QA (VQA) and Spoken QA (SQA) systems extend the textual QA system to accept visual and spoken input respectively. This work aims to create a system…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-30 Nimrod Shabtay , Zvi Kons , Avihu Dekel , Hagai Aronowitz , Ron Hoory , Assaf Arbelle

Visual Question Answering (VQA) is of tremendous interest to the research community with important applications such as aiding visually impaired users and image-based search. In this work, we explore the use of scene graphs for solving the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-19 Vinay Damodaran , Sharanya Chakravarthy , Akshay Kumar , Anjana Umapathy , Teruko Mitamura , Yuta Nakashima , Noa Garcia , Chenhui Chu

Audio question answering (AQA) requires models to understand acoustic content and perform complex reasoning. Current models struggle with dataset imbalances and unstable training dynamics. This work combines curriculum learning with…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Gijs Wijngaard , Elia Formisano , Michele Esposito , Michel Dumontier

We introduce the new task of Acoustic Question Answering (AQA) to promote research in acoustic reasoning. The AQA task consists of analyzing an acoustic scene composed by a combination of elementary sounds and answering questions that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-01 Jerome Abdelnour , Giampiero Salvi , Jean Rouat

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

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

Text-based VQA aims at answering questions by reading the text present in the images. It requires a large amount of scene-text relationship understanding compared to the VQA task. Recent studies have shown that the question-answer pairs in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-02 Shamanthak Hegde , Soumya Jahagirdar , Shankar Gangisetty

Visual question answering (VQA) and image captioning require a shared body of general knowledge connecting language and vision. We present a novel approach to improve VQA performance that exploits this connection by jointly generating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-07 Jialin Wu , Zeyuan Hu , Raymond J. Mooney

Visual question answering has been an exciting challenge in the field of natural language understanding, as it requires deep learning models to exchange information from both vision and language domains. In this project, we aim to tackle a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Tai Vu , Robert Yang

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

Most existing works in visual question answering (VQA) are dedicated to improving the accuracy of predicted answers, while disregarding the explanations. We argue that the explanation for an answer is of the same or even more importance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-28 Qing Li , Qingyi Tao , Shafiq Joty , Jianfei Cai , Jiebo Luo

We present a comprehensive study of chart visual question-answering(QA) task, to address the challenges faced in comprehending and extracting data from chart visualizations within documents. Despite efforts to tackle this problem using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-07 Saleem Ahmed , Bhavin Jawade , Shubham Pandey , Srirangaraj Setlur , Venu Govindaraju

Visual question answering (Visual QA) has attracted significant attention these years. While a variety of algorithms have been proposed, most of them are built upon different combinations of image and language features as well as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-30 Cheng Zhang , Wei-Lun Chao , Dong Xuan

Visual Question Answering (VQA) methods have made incredible progress, but suffer from a failure to generalize. This is visible in the fact that they are vulnerable to learning coincidental correlations in the data rather than deeper…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-27 Xinyu Wang , Yuliang Liu , Chunhua Shen , Chun Chet Ng , Canjie Luo , Lianwen Jin , Chee Seng Chan , Anton van den Hengel , Liangwei Wang

Visual question answering (VQA) is a challenging multi-modal task that requires not only the semantic understanding of both images and questions, but also the sound perception of a step-by-step reasoning process that would lead to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-06 Siwen Luo , Soyeon Caren Han , Kaiyuan Sun , Josiah Poon