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The domain of joint vision-language understanding, especially in the context of reasoning in Visual Question Answering (VQA) models, has garnered significant attention in the recent past. While most of the existing VQA models focus on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-11 Rakesh Vaideeswaran , Feng Gao , Abhinav Mathur , Govind Thattai

Understanding and reasoning over academic handwritten notes remains a challenge in document AI, particularly for mathematical equations, diagrams, and scientific notations. Existing visual question answering (VQA) benchmarks focus on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Aniket Pal , Sanket Biswas , Alloy Das , Ayush Lodh , Priyanka Banerjee , Soumitri Chattopadhyay , Dimosthenis Karatzas , Josep Llados , C. V. Jawahar

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

We present a simple method that achieves unexpectedly superior performance for Complex Reasoning involved Visual Question Answering. Our solution collects statistical features from high-frequency words of all the questions asked about an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-20 Shijie Geng , Ji Zhang , Hang Zhang , Ahmed Elgammal , Dimitris N. Metaxas

Compositional generalization, the ability to reason about novel combinations of familiar concepts, is fundamental to human cognition and a critical challenge for machine learning. Object-centric (OC) representations, which encode a scene as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Ferdinand Kapl , Amir Mohammad Karimi Mamaghan , Maximilian Seitzer , Karl Henrik Johansson , Carsten Marr , Stefan Bauer , Andrea Dittadi

In the era of pre-trained models, effective classification can often be achieved using simple linear probing or lightweight readout layers. In contrast, many competitive clustering pipelines have a multi-modal design, leveraging large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Yicen Li , Haitz Sáez de Ocáriz Borde , Anastasis Kratsios , Paul D. McNicholas

This paper presents a new model for the task of scene text visual question answering, in which questions about a given image can only be answered by reading and understanding scene text that is present in it. The proposed model is based on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-26 Lluís Gómez , Ali Furkan Biten , Rubèn Tito , Andrés Mafla , Marçal Rusiñol , Ernest Valveny , Dimosthenis Karatzas

Visual Question Answering systems target answering open-ended textual questions given input images. They are a testbed for learning high-level reasoning with a primary use in HCI, for instance assistance for the visually impaired. Recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-21 Theo Jaunet , Corentin Kervadec , Romain Vuillemot , Grigory Antipov , Moez Baccouche , Christian Wolf

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

Visual question answering (VQA) in medical imaging aims to support clinical diagnosis by automatically interpreting complex imaging data in response to natural language queries. Existing studies typically rely on distinct visual and textual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Yuanhe Tian , Chen Su , Junwen Duan , Yan Song

The ideal form of Visual Question Answering requires understanding, grounding and reasoning in the joint space of vision and language and serves as a proxy for the AI task of scene understanding. However, most existing VQA benchmarks are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Kang Chen , Xiangqian Wu

To address the limitations of existing open-vocabulary object recognition methods, specifically high system complexity, substantial training costs, and limited generalization, this paper proposes a novel Open-Vocabulary Object Recognition…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Wei Yu Chen , Ying Dai

Scene text recognition is an important and challenging task in computer vision. However, most prior works focus on recognizing pre-defined words, while there are various out-of-vocabulary (OOV) words in real-world applications. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-13 Xuhua Ren , Hengcan Shi , Jin Li

Generalizing beyond the experiences has a significant role in developing practical AI systems. It has been shown that current Visual Question Answering (VQA) models are over-dependent on the language-priors (spurious correlations between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-22 Gouthaman KV , Anurag Mittal

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

Weakly supervised learning has emerged as a compelling tool for object detection by reducing the need for strong supervision during training. However, major challenges remain: (1) differentiation of object instances can be ambiguous; (2)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-22 Zhongzheng Ren , Zhiding Yu , Xiaodong Yang , Ming-Yu Liu , Yong Jae Lee , Alexander G. Schwing , Jan Kautz

Video Large Language Models (Video LLMs) have shown remarkable progress in understanding and reasoning about visual content, particularly in tasks involving text recognition and text-based visual question answering (Text VQA). However,…

Text recognition is a long-standing research problem for document digitalization. Existing approaches are usually built based on CNN for image understanding and RNN for char-level text generation. In addition, another language model is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Minghao Li , Tengchao Lv , Jingye Chen , Lei Cui , Yijuan Lu , Dinei Florencio , Cha Zhang , Zhoujun Li , Furu Wei

Open-Vocabulary Object Detection (OVOD) aims to detect novel objects beyond a given set of base categories on which the detection model is trained. Recent OVOD methods focus on adapting the image-level pre-trained vision-language models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-20 Ruohuan Fang , Guansong Pang , Xiao Bai

Image text carries essential information to understand the scene and perform reasoning. Text-based visual question answering (text VQA) task focuses on visual questions that require reading text in images. Existing text VQA systems generate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-07 Wei Han , Hantao Huang , Tao Han