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Large-scale pre-trained models (PTMs) show great zero-shot capabilities. In this paper, we study how to leverage them for zero-shot visual question answering (VQA). Our approach is motivated by a few observations. First, VQA questions often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-25 Rui Cao , Jing Jiang

Visual question answering (VQA) in surgery is largely unexplored. Expert surgeons are scarce and are often overloaded with clinical and academic workloads. This overload often limits their time answering questionnaires from patients,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Lalithkumar Seenivasan , Mobarakol Islam , Adithya K Krishna , Hongliang Ren

In multi-modal reasoning tasks, such as visual question answering (VQA), there have been many modeling and training paradigms tested. Previous models propose different methods for the vision and language tasks, but which ones perform the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-23 Karan Samel , Zelin Zhao , Binghong Chen , Kuan Wang , Robin Luo , Le Song

Visual Question Answering (VQA) is a multi-modal task that involves answering questions from an input image, semantically understanding the contents of the image and answering it in natural language. Using VQA for disaster management is an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-14 Aditya Kane , V Manushree , Sahil Khose

Visual Grounding (VG) methods in Visual Question Answering (VQA) attempt to improve VQA performance by strengthening a model's reliance on question-relevant visual information. The presence of such relevant information in the visual input…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-16 Daniel Reich , Tanja Schultz

Several studies have recently pointed that existing Visual Question Answering (VQA) models heavily suffer from the language prior problem, which refers to capturing superficial statistical correlations between the question type and the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Yudong Han , Liqiang Nie , Jianhua Yin , Jianlong Wu , Yan Yan

This paper proposes to improve visual question answering (VQA) with structured representations of both scene contents and questions. A key challenge in VQA is to require joint reasoning over the visual and text domains. The predominant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-31 Damien Teney , Lingqiao Liu , Anton van den Hengel

Visual Question Answering (VQA) is a novel problem domain where multi-modal inputs must be processed in order to solve the task given in the form of a natural language. As the solutions inherently require to combine visual and natural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-31 Mikyas T. Desta , Larry Chen , Tomasz Kornuta

Creation of large-scale databases for Visual Question Answering tasks pertaining to the text data in a scene (text-VQA) involves skilful human annotation, which is tedious and challenging. With the advent of foundation models that handle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Soham Joshi , Shwet Kamal Mishra , Viswanath Gopalakrishnan

Recently, a number of deep-learning based models have been proposed for the task of Visual Question Answering (VQA). The performance of most models is clustered around 60-70%. In this paper we propose systematic methods to analyze the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-10-05 Aishwarya Agrawal , Dhruv Batra , Devi Parikh

State-of-the-art approaches for image captioning require supervised training data consisting of captions with paired image data. These methods are typically unable to use unsupervised data such as textual data with no corresponding images,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-27 Wenhu Chen , Aurelien Lucchi , Thomas Hofmann

In the realm of multimodal tasks, Visual Question Answering (VQA) plays a crucial role by addressing natural language questions grounded in visual content. Knowledge-Based Visual Question Answering (KBVQA) advances this concept by adding…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Manas Jhalani , Annervaz K M , Pushpak Bhattacharyya

Recently, Visual Question Answering (VQA) has emerged as one of the most significant tasks in multimodal learning as it requires understanding both visual and textual modalities. Existing methods mainly rely on extracting image and question…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-23 Pan Lu , Lei Ji , Wei Zhang , Nan Duan , Ming Zhou , Jianyong Wang

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

In this paper, we explore effective prompting techniques to enhance zero- and few-shot Visual Question Answering (VQA) performance in contemporary Vision-Language Models (VLMs). Central to our investigation is the role of question templates…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Rabiul Awal , Le Zhang , Aishwarya Agrawal

Despite Visual Question Answering (VQA) has realized impressive progress over the last few years, today's VQA models tend to capture superficial linguistic correlations in the train set and fail to generalize to the test set with different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-17 Long Chen , Xin Yan , Jun Xiao , Hanwang Zhang , Shiliang Pu , Yueting Zhuang

Knowledge-based visual question answering (VQA) requires answering questions with external knowledge in addition to the content of images. One dataset that is mostly used in evaluating knowledge-based VQA is OK-VQA, but it lacks a gold…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-10 Man Luo , Yankai Zeng , Pratyay Banerjee , Chitta Baral

Incorporating external knowledge to Visual Question Answering (VQA) has become a vital practical need. Existing methods mostly adopt pipeline approaches with different components for knowledge matching and extraction, feature learning,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Zhuo Chen , Jiaoyan Chen , Yuxia Geng , Jeff Z. Pan , Zonggang Yuan , Huajun Chen

Acquiring high-quality knowledge is a central focus in Knowledge-Based Visual Question Answering (KB-VQA). Recent methods use large language models (LLMs) as knowledge engines for answering. These methods generally employ image captions as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Yan Zhang , Jiaqing Lin , Miao Zhang , Kui Xiao , Xiaoju Hou , Yue Zhao , Zhifei Li

This paper proposes CQ-VQA, a novel 2-level hierarchical but end-to-end model to solve the task of visual question answering (VQA). The first level of CQ-VQA, referred to as question categorizer (QC), classifies questions to reduce the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-18 Aakansha Mishra , Ashish Anand , Prithwijit Guha