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Most existing works in visual question answering (VQA) are dedicated to improving the accuracy of predicted answers, while disregarding the explanations. We argue that the explanation for an answer is of the same or even more importance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-28 Qing Li , Qingyi Tao , Shafiq Joty , Jianfei Cai , Jiebo Luo

In visual question answering (VQA) context, users often pose ambiguous questions to visual language models (VLMs) due to varying expression habits. Existing research addresses such ambiguities primarily by rephrasing questions. These…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Pu Jian , Donglei Yu , Wen Yang , Shuo Ren , Jiajun Zhang

We introduce MASSES, a simple evaluation metric for the task of Visual Question Answering (VQA). In its standard form, the VQA task is operationalized as follows: Given an image and an open-ended question in natural language, systems are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-13 Shailza Jolly , Sandro Pezzelle , Tassilo Klein , Andreas Dengel , Moin Nabi

Visual Question Answering (VQA) methods have made incredible progress, but suffer from a failure to generalize. This is visible in the fact that they are vulnerable to learning coincidental correlations in the data rather than deeper…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-27 Xinyu Wang , Yuliang Liu , Chunhua Shen , Chun Chet Ng , Canjie Luo , Lianwen Jin , Chee Seng Chan , Anton van den Hengel , Liangwei Wang

8 years after the visual question answering (VQA) task was proposed, accuracy remains the primary metric for automatic evaluation. VQA Accuracy has been effective so far in the IID evaluation setting. However, our community is undergoing a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-11 Oscar Mañas , Benno Krojer , Aishwarya Agrawal

\Ac{LFQA} aims to generate lengthy answers to complex questions. This scenario presents great flexibility as well as significant challenges for evaluation. Most evaluations rely on deterministic metrics that depend on string or n-gram…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-04-28 Ning Xian , Yixing Fan , Ruqing Zhang , Maarten de Rijke , Jiafeng Guo

Visual Question Answering (VQA) has attracted attention from both computer vision and natural language processing communities. Most existing approaches adopt the pipeline of representing an image via pre-trained CNNs, and then using the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-30 Qing Li , Jianlong Fu , Dongfei Yu , Tao Mei , Jiebo Luo

Zero-shot Visual Question Answering (VQA) is a prominent vision-language task that examines both the visual and textual understanding capability of systems in the absence of training data. Recently, by converting the images into captions,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-16 Yunshi Lan , Xiang Li , Xin Liu , Yang Li , Wei Qin , Weining Qian

Most existing research on visual question answering (VQA) is limited to information explicitly present in an image or a video. In this paper, we take visual understanding to a higher level where systems are challenged to answer questions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-14 Shailaja Keyur Sampat , Akshay Kumar , Yezhou Yang , Chitta Baral

Video Question Answering (VideoQA) requires identifying sparse critical moments in long videos and reasoning about their causal relationships to answer semantically complex questions. While recent advances in multimodal learning have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Xinxin Dong , Baoyun Peng , Haokai Ma , Yufei Wang , Zixuan Dong , Fei Hu , Xiaodong Wang

Recent methods for visual question answering rely on large-scale annotated datasets. Manual annotation of questions and answers for videos, however, is tedious, expensive and prevents scalability. In this work, we propose to avoid manual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-12 Antoine Yang , Antoine Miech , Josef Sivic , Ivan Laptev , Cordelia Schmid

As we become increasingly dependent on vision language models (VLMs) to answer questions about the world around us, there is a significant amount of research devoted to increasing both the difficulty of video question answering (VQA)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Sam Pollard , Michael Wray

The multimodal task of Visual Question Answering (VQA) encompassing elements of Computer Vision (CV) and Natural Language Processing (NLP), aims to generate answers to questions on any visual input. Over time, the scope of VQA has expanded…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Md Farhan Ishmam , Md Sakib Hossain Shovon , M. F. Mridha , Nilanjan Dey

Visual Question Answering (VQA) models aim to answer natural language questions about given images. Due to its ability to ask questions that differ from those used when training the model, medical VQA has received substantial attention in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Sergio Tascon-Morales , Pablo Márquez-Neila , Raphael Sznitman

We study visually grounded VideoQA in response to the emerging trends of utilizing pretraining techniques for video-language understanding. Specifically, by forcing vision-language models (VLMs) to answer questions and simultaneously…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Junbin Xiao , Angela Yao , Yicong Li , Tat Seng Chua

Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown remarkable performances on a wide range of natural language understanding and generation tasks. We observe that the LLMs provide effective priors in exploiting $\textit{linguistic shortcuts}$ for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Dohwan Ko , Ji Soo Lee , Wooyoung Kang , Byungseok Roh , Hyunwoo J. Kim

Video Question Answering (VideoQA), aiming to correctly answer the given question based on understanding multi-modal video content, is challenging due to the rich video content. From the perspective of video understanding, a good VideoQA…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-01 Jingjing Jiang , Ziyi Liu , Nanning Zheng

Significant advancements in video question answering (VideoQA) have been made thanks to thriving large image-language pretraining frameworks. Although these image-language models can efficiently represent both video and language branches,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Bo Zou , Chao Yang , Yu Qiao , Chengbin Quan , Youjian Zhao

Visual question answering (VQA) is a critical multimodal task in which an agent must answer questions according to the visual cue. Unfortunately, language bias is a common problem in VQA, which refers to the model generating answers only by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-05 Xinyao Shu , Shiyang Yan , Xu Yang , Ziheng Wu , Zhongfeng Chen , Zhenyu Lu

The end-to-end learning ability of self-driving vehicles has achieved significant milestones over the last decade owing to rapid advances in deep learning and computer vision algorithms. However, as autonomous driving technology is a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-21 Shahin Atakishiyev , Mohammad Salameh , Housam Babiker , Randy Goebel