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Visual question answering (or VQA) is a new and exciting problem that combines natural language processing and computer vision techniques. We present a survey of the various datasets and models that have been used to tackle this task. The…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-05-12 Akshay Kumar Gupta

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

Vision-language models, while effective in general domains and showing strong performance in diverse multi-modal applications like visual question-answering (VQA), struggle to maintain the same level of effectiveness in more specialized…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-26 Cuong Nhat Ha , Shima Asaadi , Sanjeev Kumar Karn , Oladimeji Farri , Tobias Heimann , Thomas Runkler

Longitudinal medical visual question answering (Diff-VQA) requires comparing paired studies from different time points and answering questions about clinically meaningful changes. In this setting, the difference signal and the consistency…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Jialin Wu , Xiaofeng Liu

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

Medical Visual Question Answering (Med-VQA) is a very important task in healthcare industry, which answers a natural language question with a medical image. Existing VQA techniques in information systems can be directly applied to solving…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-12-14 Xiaojie Hong , Zixin Song , Liangzhi Li , Xiaoli Wang , Feiyan Liu

Scaling Visual Question Answering (VQA) to the open-domain and multi-hop nature of web searches, requires fundamental advances in visual representation learning, knowledge aggregation, and language generation. In this work, we introduce…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Yingshan Chang , Mridu Narang , Hisami Suzuki , Guihong Cao , Jianfeng Gao , Yonatan Bisk

In this work, we propose a deep neural architecture that uses an attention mechanism which utilizes region based image features, the natural language question asked, and semantic knowledge extracted from the regions of an image to produce…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-06 Tasmia Tasrin , Md Sultan Al Nahian , Brent Harrison

We propose the task of free-form and open-ended Visual Question Answering (VQA). Given an image and a natural language question about the image, the task is to provide an accurate natural language answer. Mirroring real-world scenarios,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-10-28 Aishwarya Agrawal , Jiasen Lu , Stanislaw Antol , Margaret Mitchell , C. Lawrence Zitnick , Dhruv Batra , Devi Parikh

The advent and proliferation of large multi-modal models (LMMs) have introduced new paradigms to computer vision, transforming various tasks into a unified visual question answering framework. Video Quality Assessment (VQA), a classic field…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Ziheng Jia , Zicheng Zhang , Jiaying Qian , Haoning Wu , Wei Sun , Chunyi Li , Xiaohong Liu , Weisi Lin , Guangtao Zhai , Xiongkuo Min

Medical vision-language models (VLMs) and AI agents have made significant progress in learning to analyze and reason about clinical images. However, existing medical visual question answering (VQA) benchmarks collapse model capabilities…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Yixiong Chen , Wenjie Xiao , Pedro R. A. S. Bassi , Boyan Wang , Liang He , Xinze Zhou , Sezgin Er , Ibrahim Ethem Hamamci , Zongwei Zhou , Alan Yuille

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

We propose the inverse problem of Visual question answering (iVQA), and explore its suitability as a benchmark for visuo-linguistic understanding. The iVQA task is to generate a question that corresponds to a given image and answer pair.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-19 Feng Liu , Tao Xiang , Timothy M. Hospedales , Wankou Yang , Changyin Sun

Visual Question and Answering (VQA) problems are attracting increasing interest from multiple research disciplines. Solving VQA problems requires techniques from both computer vision for understanding the visual contents of a presented…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-04-07 Ilija Ilievski , Shuicheng Yan , Jiashi Feng

With growing interest in recent years, medical visual question answering (Med-VQA) has rapidly evolved, with multimodal large language models (MLLMs) emerging as an alternative to classical model architectures. Specifically, their ability…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-07 Sergio Tascon-Morales , Pablo Márquez-Neila , Raphael Sznitman

We propose GHR-VQA, Graph-guided Hierarchical Relational Reasoning for Video Question Answering (Video QA), a novel human-centric framework that incorporates scene graphs to capture intricate human-object interactions within video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Dionysia Danai Brilli , Dimitrios Mallis , Vassilis Pitsikalis , Petros Maragos

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

Explanation and high-order reasoning capabilities are crucial for real-world visual question answering with diverse levels of inference complexity (e.g., what is the dog that is near the girl playing with?) and important for users to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-24 Qingxing Cao , Bailin Li , Xiaodan Liang , Liang Lin

The predominant approach to Visual Question Answering (VQA) demands that the model represents within its weights all of the information required to answer any question about any image. Learning this information from any real training set…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-23 Damien Teney , Anton van den Hengel

This paper introduces speech-based visual question answering (VQA), the task of generating an answer given an image and a spoken question. Two methods are studied: an end-to-end, deep neural network that directly uses audio waveforms as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-09-19 Ted Zhang , Dengxin Dai , Tinne Tuytelaars , Marie-Francine Moens , Luc Van Gool