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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) has been a widely studied topic, with extensive research focusing on how VLMs respond to answerable questions based on real-world images. However, there has been limited exploration of how these models handle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Asir Saadat , Syem Aziz , Shahriar Mahmud , Abdullah Ibne Masud Mahi , Sabbir Ahmed

In recent years, visual question answering (VQA) has become topical. The premise of VQA's significance as a benchmark in AI, is that both the image and textual question need to be well understood and mutually grounded in order to infer the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-20 Feng Liu , Tao Xiang , Timothy M. Hospedales , Wankou Yang , Changyin Sun

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) 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

Visual Question Answering (VQA) systems are tasked with answering natural language questions corresponding to a presented image. Traditional VQA datasets typically contain questions related to the spatial information of objects, object…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-06-05 Goonmeet Bajaj , Bortik Bandyopadhyay , Daniel Schmidt , Pranav Maneriker , Christopher Myers , Srinivasan Parthasarathy

Visual Question Answering (VQA) models employ attention mechanisms to discover image locations that are most relevant for answering a specific question. For this purpose, several multimodal fusion strategies have been proposed, ranging from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-26 Moshiur R Farazi , Salman H Khan , Nick Barnes

Methodologies for training visual question answering (VQA) models assume the availability of datasets with human-annotated \textit{Image-Question-Answer} (I-Q-A) triplets. This has led to heavy reliance on datasets and a lack of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-31 Pratyay Banerjee , Tejas Gokhale , Yezhou Yang , Chitta Baral

Visual Question Answering (VQA) is the task of taking as input an image and a free-form natural language question about the image, and producing an accurate answer. In this work we view VQA as a "feature extraction" module to extract image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-09-02 Xiao Lin , Devi Parikh

Visual Question Answering (VQA) has benefited from increasingly sophisticated models, but has not enjoyed the same level of engagement in terms of data creation. In this paper, we propose a method that automatically derives VQA examples at…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-05 Soravit Changpinyo , Doron Kukliansky , Idan Szpektor , Xi Chen , Nan Ding , Radu Soricut

3D Visual Question Answering (3D VQA) is crucial for enabling models to perceive the physical world and perform spatial reasoning. In 3D VQA, the free-form nature of answers often leads to improper annotations that can confuse or mislead…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Shengli Zhou , Yang Liu , Feng Zheng

Visual understanding requires interpreting both natural scenes and the textual information that appears within them, motivating tasks such as Visual Question Answering (VQA). However, current VQA benchmarks overlook scenarios with visually…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Jianing An , Luyang Jiang , Jie Luo , Wenjun Wu , Lei Huang

Visual Question Answering (VQA) in its ideal form lets us study reasoning in the joint space of vision and language and serves as a proxy for the AI task of scene understanding. However, most VQA benchmarks to date are focused on questions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-05 Kenneth Marino , Mohammad Rastegari , Ali Farhadi , Roozbeh Mottaghi

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) 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

In visual question answering (VQA), an algorithm must answer text-based questions about images. While multiple datasets for VQA have been created since late 2014, they all have flaws in both their content and the way algorithms are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-15 Kushal Kafle , Christopher Kanan

Visual Question Answering (VQA) has emerged as a Visual Turing Test to validate the reasoning ability of AI agents. The pivot to existing VQA models is the joint embedding that is learned by combining the visual features from an image and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-22 Moshiur R. Farazi , Salman H. Khan , Nick Barnes

Knowledge-based Visual Question Answering (KVQA) requires external knowledge beyond the visible content to answer questions about an image. This ability is challenging but indispensable to achieve general VQA. One limitation of existing…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-11-04 Jing Yu , Zihao Zhu , Yujing Wang , Weifeng Zhang , Yue Hu , Jianlong Tan

Visual Question Answering (VQA) is a challenge task that combines natural language processing and computer vision techniques and gradually becomes a benchmark test task in multimodal large language models (MLLMs). The goal of our survey is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-27 Jiayi Kuang , Jingyou Xie , Haohao Luo , Ronghao Li , Zhe Xu , Xianfeng Cheng , Yinghui Li , Xika Lin , Ying Shen

Visual Question Answering (VQA) concerns providing answers to Natural Language questions about images. Several deep neural network approaches have been proposed to model the task in an end-to-end fashion. Whereas the task is grounded in…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-02-03 Mehrdad Alizadeh , Barbara Di Eugenio