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This paper proposes a question-answering (QA) benchmark for spatial reasoning on natural language text which contains more realistic spatial phenomena not covered by prior work and is challenging for state-of-the-art language models (LM).…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-14 Roshanak Mirzaee , Hossein Rajaby Faghihi , Qiang Ning , Parisa Kordjmashidi

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

Visual Question Answering (VQA) is the task of taking as input an image and a free-form natural language question about the image, and producing an accurate answer. In this work we view VQA as a "feature extraction" module to extract image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-09-02 Xiao Lin , Devi Parikh

Visual Question Answering (VQA) deep-learning systems tend to capture superficial statistical correlations in the training data because of strong language priors and fail to generalize to test data with a significantly different…

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

The ability of intelligent agents to play games in human-like fashion is popularly considered a benchmark of progress in Artificial Intelligence. Similarly, performance on multi-disciplinary tasks such as Visual Question Answering (VQA) is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-30 Ravi Kiran Sarvadevabhatla , Shiv Surya , Trisha Mittal , Venkatesh Babu Radhakrishnan

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

Part of the appeal of Visual Question Answering (VQA) is its promise to answer new questions about previously unseen images. Most current methods demand training questions that illustrate every possible concept, and will therefore never…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-22 Damien Teney , Anton van den Hengel

Visual Question Answering (VQA) has emerged as a pivotal task in the intersection of computer vision and natural language processing, requiring models to understand and reason about visual content in response to natural language questions.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Aiswarya Baby , Tintu Thankom Koshy

We introduce CausalVQA, a benchmark dataset for video question answering (VQA) composed of question-answer pairs that probe models' understanding of causality in the physical world. Existing VQA benchmarks either tend to focus on surface…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Aaron Foss , Chloe Evans , Sasha Mitts , Koustuv Sinha , Ammar Rizvi , Justine T. Kao

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

Visual reasoning tasks such as visual question answering (VQA) require an interplay of visual perception with reasoning about the question semantics grounded in perception. However, recent advances in this area are still primarily driven by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-27 Saeed Amizadeh , Hamid Palangi , Oleksandr Polozov , Yichen Huang , Kazuhito Koishida

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

Current visual question answering (VQA) models tend to be trained and evaluated on image-question pairs in isolation. However, the questions people ask are dependent on their informational needs and prior knowledge about the image content.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-07 Nandita Shankar Naik , Christopher Potts , Elisa Kreiss

No published work on visual question answering (VQA) accounts for ambiguity regarding where the content described in the question is located in the image. To fill this gap, we introduce VQ-FocusAmbiguity, the first VQA dataset that visually…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Chongyan Chen , Yu-Yun Tseng , Zhuoheng Li , Anush Venkatesh , Danna Gurari

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

Visual Question Answering (VQA) is increasingly used in diverse applications ranging from general visual reasoning to safety-critical domains such as medical imaging and autonomous systems, where models must provide not only accurate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Xingjian Diao , Weiyi Wu , Keyi Kong , Peijun Qing , Xinwen Xu , Ming Cheng , Soroush Vosoughi , Jiang Gui

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) concerns providing answers to Natural Language questions about images. Several deep neural network approaches have been proposed to model the task in an end-to-end fashion. Whereas the task is grounded in…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-02-03 Mehrdad Alizadeh , Barbara Di Eugenio

Visual Question Answering (VQA) is a challenge task that combines natural language processing and computer vision techniques and gradually becomes a benchmark test task in multimodal large language models (MLLMs). The goal of our survey is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-27 Jiayi Kuang , Jingyou Xie , Haohao Luo , Ronghao Li , Zhe Xu , Xianfeng Cheng , Yinghui Li , Xika Lin , Ying Shen

Visual question answering requires a deep understanding of both images and natural language. However, most methods mainly focus on visual concept; such as the relationships between various objects. The limited use of object categories…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-25 Jung-Jun Kim , Dong-Gyu Lee , Jialin Wu , Hong-Gyu Jung , Seong-Whan Lee