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What does it take to design a machine that learns to answer natural questions about a video? A Video QA system must simultaneously understand language, represent visual content over space-time, and iteratively transform these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-14 Thao Minh Le , Vuong Le , Svetha Venkatesh , Truyen Tran

Problems at the intersection of language and vision, like visual question answering, have recently been gaining a lot of attention in the field of multi-modal machine learning as computer vision research moves beyond traditional recognition…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-09-25 Khyathi Raghavi Chandu , Mary Arpita Pyreddy , Matthieu Felix , Narendra Nath Joshi

Answering open-ended questions is an essential capability for any intelligent agent. One of the most interesting recent open-ended question answering challenges is Visual Question Answering (VQA) which attempts to evaluate a system's visual…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-10-25 Omid Bakhshandeh , Trung Bui , Zhe Lin , Walter Chang

In the healthcare domain, summarizing medical questions posed by patients is critical for improving doctor-patient interactions and medical decision-making. Although medical data has grown in complexity and quantity, the current body of…

Knowledge-based visual question answering (KB-VQA) requires vision-language models to understand images and use external knowledge, especially for rare entities and long-tail facts. Most existing retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Zhuohong Chen , Zhenxian Wu , Yunyao Yu , Hangrui Xu , Zirui Liao , Zhifang Liu , Xiangwen Deng , Pen Jiao , Haoqian 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

While recent Multimodal Large Language Models exhibit impressive capabilities for general multimodal tasks, specialized domains like music necessitate tailored approaches. Music Audio-Visual Question Answering (Music AVQA) particularly…

Question Answering (QA) and Visual Question Answering (VQA) are well-studied problems in the language and vision domain. One challenging scenario involves multiple sources of information, each of a different modality, where the answer to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Vinay Kumar Verma , Shreyas Sunil Kulkarni , Happy Mittal , Deepak Gupta

Medical Visual Question Answering (MedVQA) is a promising field for developing clinical decision support systems, yet progress is often limited by the available datasets, which can lack clinical complexity and visual diversity. To address…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Sushant Gautam , Michael A. Riegler , Pål Halvorsen

Visual Question Answering (VQA) is a core task for evaluating the capabilities of Vision-Language Models (VLMs). Existing VQA benchmarks primarily feature clear and unambiguous image-question pairs, whereas real-world scenarios often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Jihyoung Jang , Hyounghun Kim

In traditional Visual Question Generation (VQG), most images have multiple concepts (e.g. objects and categories) for which a question could be generated, but models are trained to mimic an arbitrary choice of concept as given in their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-27 Nihir Vedd , Zixu Wang , Marek Rei , Yishu Miao , Lucia Specia

Learning-based video quality assessment (VQA) has advanced rapidly, yet progress is increasingly constrained by a disconnect between model design and dataset curation. Model-centric approaches often iterate on fixed benchmarks, while…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Jian Zou , Xiaoyu Xu , Zhihua Wang , Yilin Wang , Balu Adsumilli , Kede Ma

The increasing availability of multimodal data across text, tables, and images presents new challenges for developing models capable of complex cross-modal reasoning. Existing methods for Multimodal Multi-hop Question Answering (MMQA) often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-14 Qi Zhi Lim , Chin Poo Lee , Kian Ming Lim , Kalaiarasi Sonai Muthu Anbananthen

Transfer learning is an important step to extract meaningful features and overcome the data limitation in the medical Visual Question Answering (VQA) task. However, most of the existing medical VQA methods rely on external data for transfer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Tuong Do , Binh X. Nguyen , Erman Tjiputra , Minh Tran , Quang D. Tran , Anh Nguyen

Visual Question-Answering (VQA) is a challenging multimodal task that requires integrating visual and textual information to generate accurate responses. While multimodal Retrieval-Augmented Generation (mRAG) has shown promise in enhancing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Zhuo Chen , Xinyu Geng , Xinyu Wang , Yong Jiang , Zhen Zhang , Pengjun Xie , Kewei Tu

The use of complex attention modules has improved the performance of the Visual Question Answering (VQA) task. This work aims to learn an improved multi-modal representation through dense interaction of visual and textual modalities. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-01 Aakansha Mishra , Ashish Anand , Prithwijit Guha

We introduce an evaluation methodology for visual question answering (VQA) to better diagnose cases of shortcut learning. These cases happen when a model exploits spurious statistical regularities to produce correct answers but does not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-02 Corentin Dancette , Remi Cadene , Damien Teney , Matthieu Cord

Visual question answering (VQA) has recently been introduced to remote sensing to make information extraction from overhead imagery more accessible to everyone. VQA considers a question (in natural language, therefore easy to formulate)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-27 Christel Chappuis , Sylvain Lobry , Benjamin Kellenberger , Bertrand Le Saux , Devis Tuia

Text-based Question Answering (QA) is a challenging task which aims at finding short concrete answers for users' questions. This line of research has been widely studied with information retrieval techniques and has received increasing…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-05-28 Zahra Abbasiantaeb , Saeedeh Momtazi

With the new generation of satellite technologies, the archives of remote sensing (RS) images are growing very fast. To make the intrinsic information of each RS image easily accessible, visual question answering (VQA) has been introduced…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Tim Siebert , Kai Norman Clasen , Mahdyar Ravanbakhsh , Begüm Demir