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Recent studies have shown that current VQA models are heavily biased on the language priors in the train set to answer the question, irrespective of the image. E.g., overwhelmingly answer "what sport is" as "tennis" or "what color banana"…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Gouthaman KV , Anurag Mittal

Visual question answering (VQA) refers to the problem where, given an image and a natural language question about the image, a correct natural language answer has to be generated. A VQA model has to demonstrate both the visual understanding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Raihan Kabir , Naznin Haque , Md Saiful Islam , Marium-E-Jannat

Visual question answering (VQA) is the task of answering questions about an image. The task assumes an understanding of both the image and the question to provide a natural language answer. VQA has gained popularity in recent years due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Deepanway Ghosal , Navonil Majumder , Roy Ka-Wei Lee , Rada Mihalcea , Soujanya Poria

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

Researchers have observed that Visual Question Answering (VQA) models tend to answer questions by learning statistical biases in the data. For example, their answer to the question "What is the color of the grass?" is usually "Green",…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-20 Varun Manjunatha , Nirat Saini , Larry S. Davis

Most recent state-of-the-art Visual Question Answering (VQA) systems are opaque black boxes that are only trained to fit the answer distribution given the question and visual content. As a result, these systems frequently take shortcuts,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-30 Jialin Wu , Liyan Chen , Raymond J. Mooney

Visual Question Answering (VQA) is an evolving research field aimed at enabling machines to answer questions about visual content by integrating image and language processing techniques such as feature extraction, object detection, text…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Ngoc Dung Huynh , Mohamed Reda Bouadjenek , Sunil Aryal , Imran Razzak , Hakim Hacid

Visual Question Answering (VQA) has been a popular task that combines vision and language, with numerous relevant implementations in literature. Even though there are some attempts that approach explainability and robustness issues in VQA…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-06 Theodoti Stoikou , Maria Lymperaiou , Giorgos Stamou

Question answering (QA) models for reading comprehension tend to learn shortcut solutions rather than the solutions intended by QA datasets. QA models that have learned shortcut solutions can achieve human-level performance in shortcut…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-30 Kazutoshi Shinoda , Saku Sugawara , Akiko Aizawa

Purpose: Vision-language models (VLMs) have shown promising performance in surgical visual question answering (VQA). However, existing surgical VQA datasets often contain linguistic shortcuts, where question phrasing implicitly constrains…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Jongmin Shin , Ka Young Kim , Eunki Cho , Seong Tae Kim , Namkee Oh

Visual Question Answering (VQA) is an important task in multimodal AI, and it is often used to test the ability of vision-language models to understand and reason on knowledge present in both visual and textual data. However, most of the…

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Visual Question Answering (VQA) is a challenging multimodal task to answer questions about an image. Many works concentrate on how to reduce language bias which makes models answer questions ignoring visual content and language context.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-22 Chao Yang , Su Feng , Dongsheng Li , Huawei Shen , Guoqing Wang , Bin Jiang

Visual Question Answering (VQA) is a fundamental multimodal task that requires models to jointly understand visual and textual information. Early VQA systems relied heavily on language biases, motivating subsequent work to emphasize visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Nguyen Anh Tuong , Phan Ba Duc , Nguyen Trung Quoc , Tran Dac Thinh , Dang Duy Lan , Nguyen Quoc Thinh , Tung Le

Visual question answering (VQA) demands simultaneous comprehension of both the image visual content and natural language questions. In some cases, the reasoning needs the help of common sense or general knowledge which usually appear in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-30 Hui Li , Peng Wang , Chunhua Shen , Anton van den Hengel

Humans apprehend the world through various sensory modalities, yet language is their predominant communication channel. Machine learning systems need to draw on the same multimodal richness to have informed discourses with humans in natural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-25 Min Wang , Ata Mahjoubfar , Anupama Joshi

We present a method that learns to answer visual questions by selecting image regions relevant to the text-based query. Our method exhibits significant improvements in answering questions such as "what color," where it is necessary to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-01-12 Kevin J. Shih , Saurabh Singh , Derek Hoiem

Despite remarkable progress in recent years, Vision Language Models (VLMs) remain prone to overconfidence and hallucinations on tasks such as Visual Question Answering (VQA) and Visual Reasoning. Bayesian methods can potentially improve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Tobias Jan Wieczorek , Nathalie Daun , Mohammad Emtiyaz Khan , Marcus Rohrbach

Visual Question Answering (VQA) is an interdisciplinary field that bridges the gap between computer vision (CV) and natural language processing(NLP), enabling Artificial Intelligence(AI) systems to answer questions about images. Since its…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Anupam Pandey , Deepjyoti Bodo , Arpan Phukan , Asif Ekbal

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

Visual question answering is an important task in both natural language and vision understanding. However, in most of the public visual question answering datasets such as VQA, CLEVR, the questions are human generated that specific to the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-08-08 Bingning Wang , Feiyang Lv , Ting Yao , Yiming Yuan , Jin Ma , Yu Luo , Haijin Liang