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Text-to-image retrieval is a fundamental task in vision-language learning, yet in real-world scenarios it is often challenged by short and underspecified user queries. Such queries are typically only one or two words long, rendering them…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Jianglin Lu , Simon Jenni , Kushal Kafle , Jing Shi , Handong Zhao , Yun Fu

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 question answering (VQA) systems are emerging from a desire to empower users to ask any natural language question about visual content and receive a valid answer in response. However, close examination of the VQA problem reveals an…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-08-30 Danna Gurari , Kristen Grauman

Recent research advances in Computer Vision and Natural Language Processing have introduced novel tasks that are paving the way for solving AI-complete problems. One of those tasks is called Visual Question Answering (VQA). A VQA system…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-30 Camila Kolling , Jônatas Wehrmann , Rodrigo C. Barros

The advancement of Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) has driven significant progress in Visual Question Answering (VQA), evolving from Single to Multi Image VQA (MVQA). However, the increased number of images in MVQA inevitably…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Kang Zeng , Guojin Zhong , Jintao Cheng , Jin Yuan , Zhiyong Li

We study visual question answering in a setting where the answer has to be mined from a pool of relevant and irrelevant images given as a context. For such a setting, a model must first retrieve relevant images from the pool and answer the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-30 Abhirama Subramanyam Penamakuri , Manish Gupta , Mithun Das Gupta , Anand Mishra

In content-based image retrieval, the first-round retrieval result by simple visual feature comparison may be unsatisfactory, which can be refined by visual re-ranking techniques. In image retrieval, it is observed that the contextual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-27 Jianbo Ouyang , Hui Wu , Min Wang , Wengang Zhou , Houqiang Li

Questions that require counting a variety of objects in images remain a major challenge in visual question answering (VQA). The most common approaches to VQA involve either classifying answers based on fixed length representations of both…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-03-05 Alexander Trott , Caiming Xiong , Richard Socher

This study explores innovative methods for improving Visual Question Answering (VQA) using Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), autoencoders, and attention mechanisms. Leveraging a balanced VQA dataset, we investigate three distinct…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-13 Panfeng Li , Qikai Yang , Xieming Geng , Wenjing Zhou , Zhicheng Ding , Yi Nian

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

Current large vision-language models (LVLMs) typically rely on text-only reasoning based on a single-pass visual encoding, which often leads to loss of fine-grained visual information. Recently the proposal of ''thinking with images''…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Junfei Wu , Jian Guan , Qiang Liu , Shu Wu , Liang Wang , Wei Wu , Tieniu Tan

Growing interest in conversational agents promote twoway human-computer communications involving asking and answering visual questions have become an active area of research in AI. Thus, generation of visual questionanswer pair(s) becomes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Charani Alampalle , Shamanthak Hegde , Soumya Jahagirdar , Shankar Gangisetty

Medical vision--language models (VLMs) have shown strong potential for medical visual question answering (VQA), yet their reasoning remains largely text-centric: images are encoded once as static context, and subsequent inference is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Suyang Xi , Songtao Hu , Yuxiang Lai , Wangyun Dan , Yaqi Liu , Shansong Wang , Xiaofeng Yang

Vision language models (VLMs) are increasingly capable of reasoning over images, but robust visual reasoning often requires re-grounding intermediate steps in the underlying visual evidence. Recent approaches typically rely on external…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Zeru Shi , Kai Mei , Yihao Quan , Dimitris N. Metaxas , Ruixiang Tang

This paper proposes the first video-grounded entailment tree reasoning method for commonsense video question answering (VQA). Despite the remarkable progress of large visual-language models (VLMs), there are growing concerns that they learn…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Huabin Liu , Filip Ilievski , Cees G. M. Snoek

Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) have shown remarkable progress in various multimodal tasks, yet they often struggle with complex visual reasoning that requires multi-step inference. To address this limitation, we propose MF-SQ-LLaVA, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-20 Liu Jing , Amirul Rahman

Visual Question Answering (VQA) is a multi-discipline research task. To produce the right answer, it requires an understanding of the visual content of images, the natural language questions, as well as commonsense reasoning over the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Yao Zhang , Haokun Chen , Ahmed Frikha , Yezi Yang , Denis Krompass , Gengyuan Zhang , Jindong Gu , Volker Tresp

Large vision-language models (LVLMs) offer a novel capability for performing in-context learning (ICL) in Visual QA. When prompted with a few demonstrations of image-question-answer triplets, LVLMs have demonstrated the ability to discern…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-03 Long Hoang Dang , Thao Minh Le , Vuong Le , Tu Minh Phuong , Truyen Tran

Visual Question Answering (VQA) is the task of answering questions based on image content. Building upon this, Knowledge-Based VQA (KB-VQA) requires models to answer questions that depend on external knowledge beyond the visual content of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Wei Ye , Yixin Su , Yueguo Chen , Longxiang Gao , Jianjun Li , Ruixuan Li , Rui Zhang

The notable gap between user-provided and model-preferred prompts poses a significant challenge for generating high-quality images with text-to-image models, compelling the need for prompt engineering. Current studies on prompt engineering…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Shiyu Wu , Mingzhen Sun , Weining Wang , Yequan Wang , Jing Liu