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In contrast to conventional visual question answering, video-grounded dialog necessitates a profound understanding of both dialog history and video content for accurate response generation. Despite commendable progress made by existing…

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Existing efforts are dedicated to designing many topologies and graph-aware strategies for the graph Transformer, which greatly improve the model's representation capabilities. However, manually determining the suitable Transformer…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-10-24 Chao Wang , Jiaxuan Zhao , Lingling Li , Licheng Jiao , Fang Liu , Shuyuan Yang

Deep hashing methods have been shown to be the most efficient approximate nearest neighbor search techniques for large-scale image retrieval. However, existing deep hashing methods have a poor small-sample ranking performance for case-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-05 Jiansheng Fang , Huazhu Fu , Jiang Liu

Visual reasoning tasks such as visual question answering (VQA) require an interplay of visual perception with reasoning about the question semantics grounded in perception. However, recent advances in this area are still primarily driven by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-27 Saeed Amizadeh , Hamid Palangi , Oleksandr Polozov , Yichen Huang , Kazuhito Koishida

The ability to handle objects in cluttered environment has been long anticipated by robotic community. However, most of works merely focus on manipulation instead of rendering hidden semantic information in cluttered objects. In this work,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Yuhong Deng , Qie Sima , Di Guo , Huaping Liu , Yi Wang , Fuchun Sun

Affordance reasoning in 3D Gaussian scenes aims to identify the region that supports the action specified by a given text instruction in complex environments. Existing methods typically cast this problem as one-shot prediction from static…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Di Li , Jie Feng , Guanbin Li , Ronghua Shang , Yuhui Zheng , Weisheng Dong , Guangming Shi

The current success of modern visual reasoning systems is arguably attributed to cross-modality attention mechanisms. However, in deliberative reasoning such as in VQA, attention is unconstrained at each step, and thus may serve as a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-26 Thao Minh Le , Vuong Le , Sunil Gupta , Svetha Venkatesh , Truyen Tran

Understanding artworks requires multi-step reasoning over visual content and cultural, historical, and stylistic context. While recent multimodal large language models show promise in artwork explanation, they rely on implicit reasoning and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Shuai Wang , Hongyi Zhu , Jia-Hong Huang , Yixian Shen , Chengxi Zeng , Stevan Rudinac , Monika Kackovic , Nachoem Wijnberg , Marcel Worring

Visual question answering requires a deep understanding of both images and natural language. However, most methods mainly focus on visual concept; such as the relationships between various objects. The limited use of object categories…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-25 Jung-Jun Kim , Dong-Gyu Lee , Jialin Wu , Hong-Gyu Jung , Seong-Whan Lee

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) frequently hallucinate due to their reliance on fragile, linear reasoning and weak visual grounding. We propose Visual Attention Reasoning (VAR), a reinforcement learning framework that reformulates…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Wei Cai , Jian Zhao , Yuchen Yuan , Tianle Zhang , Ming Zhu , Haichuan Tang , Xuelong Li

Visual question answering (VQA) usesimage processing algorithms to process the image and natural language processing methods to understand and answer the question. VQA is helpful to a visually impaired person, can be used for the security…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-31 Param Ahir , Hiteishi M. Diwanji

Open-Domain Table Question Answering (TQA) involves retrieving relevant tables from a large corpus to answer natural language queries. Traditional dense retrieval models such as DTR and DPR incur high computational costs for large-scale…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Adarsh Singh , Kushal Raj Bhandari , Jianxi Gao , Soham Dan , Vivek Gupta

Visual question answering (VQA) is a task that combines both the techniques of computer vision and natural language processing. It requires models to answer a text-based question according to the information contained in a visual. In recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-04 Yeyun Zou , Qiyu Xie

Visual Question Answering (VQA) presents a unique challenge as it requires the ability to understand and encode the multi-modal inputs - in terms of image processing and natural language processing. The algorithm further needs to learn how…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-26 Supriya Pandhre , Shagun Sodhani

We introduce Nomad, a system for autonomous data exploration and insight discovery. Given a corpus of documents, databases, or other data sources, users rarely know the full set of questions, hypotheses, or connections that could be…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Bokang Jia , Samta Kamboj , Satheesh Katipomu , Seung Hun Han , Neha Sengupta , Andrew Jackson

We propose a grounded dialogue state encoder which addresses a foundational issue on how to integrate visual grounding with dialogue system components. As a test-bed, we focus on the GuessWhat?! game, a two-player game where the goal is to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-03-18 Ravi Shekhar , Aashish Venkatesh , Tim Baumgärtner , Elia Bruni , Barbara Plank , Raffaella Bernardi , Raquel Fernández

In this paper, we propose a new dataset, ReasonVQA, for the Visual Question Answering (VQA) task. Our dataset is automatically integrated with structured encyclopedic knowledge and constructed using a low-cost framework, which is capable of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Duong T. Tran , Trung-Kien Tran , Manfred Hauswirth , Danh Le Phuoc

Video text-based visual question answering (Video TextVQA) aims to answer questions by reasoning over visual textual content appearing in videos. Despite the strong multimodal video understanding capabilities of recent Video-LLMs, their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Haibin He , Maoyuan Ye , Jing Zhang , Juhua Liu , Bo Du

Visual question answering has been an exciting challenge in the field of natural language understanding, as it requires deep learning models to exchange information from both vision and language domains. In this project, we aim to tackle a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Tai Vu , Robert Yang

Abductive reasoning seeks the likeliest possible explanation for partial observations. Although abduction is frequently employed in human daily reasoning, it is rarely explored in computer vision literature. In this paper, we propose a new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Chen Liang , Wenguan Wang , Tianfei Zhou , Yi Yang