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The open-ended question answering task of Text-VQA often requires reading and reasoning about rarely seen or completely unseen scene-text content of an image. We address this zero-shot nature of the problem by proposing the generalized use…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-18 Arka Ujjal Dey , Ernest Valveny , Gaurav Harit

Egocentric augmented reality devices such as wearable glasses passively capture visual data as a human wearer tours a home environment. We envision a scenario wherein the human communicates with an AI agent powering such a device by asking…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-04 Samyak Datta , Sameer Dharur , Vincent Cartillier , Ruta Desai , Mukul Khanna , Dhruv Batra , Devi Parikh

Visual Question Answering (VQA) has attracted much attention since it offers insight into the relationships between the multi-modal analysis of images and natural language. Most of the current algorithms are incapable of answering…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-05 Guohao Li , Hang Su , Wenwu Zhu

The research community has shown increasing interest in designing intelligent embodied agents that can assist humans in accomplishing tasks. Although there have been significant advancements in related vision-language benchmarks, most prior…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-13 Ying Shen , Daniel Bis , Cynthia Lu , Ismini Lourentzou

Embodied Question Answering (EQA) is a challenging task in embodied intelligence that requires agents to dynamically explore 3D environments, actively gather visual information, and perform multi-step reasoning to answer questions. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Kaixuan Jiang , Yang Liu , Weixing Chen , Jingzhou Luo , Ziliang Chen , Ling Pan , Guanbin Li , Liang Lin

This study focuses on Embodied Complex-Question Answering task, which means the embodied robot need to understand human questions with intricate structures and abstract semantics. The core of this task lies in making appropriate plans based…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Ning Lan , Baoshan Ou , Xuemei Xie , Guangming Shi

Commonsense and background knowledge is required for a QA model to answer many nontrivial questions. Different from existing work on knowledge-aware QA, we focus on a more challenging task of leveraging external knowledge to generate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-09 Bin Bi , Chen Wu , Ming Yan , Wei Wang , Jiangnan Xia , Chenliang Li

Though beneficial for encouraging the Visual Question Answering (VQA) models to discover the underlying knowledge by exploiting the input-output correlation beyond image and text contexts, the existing knowledge VQA datasets are mostly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Qingxing Cao , Bailin Li , Xiaodan Liang , Keze Wang , Liang Lin

Embodied Question Answering (EQA) requires an agent to interpret language, perceive its environment, and navigate within 3D scenes to produce responses. Existing EQA benchmarks assume that every question must be answered, but embodied…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-05 Tao Wu , Chuhao Zhou , Guangyu Zhao , Haozhi Cao , Yewen Pu , Jianfei Yang

We propose a new 3D spatial understanding task of 3D Question Answering (3D-QA). In the 3D-QA task, models receive visual information from the entire 3D scene of the rich RGB-D indoor scan and answer the given textual questions about the 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Daichi Azuma , Taiki Miyanishi , Shuhei Kurita , Motoaki Kawanabe

Deploying embodied agents that can answer questions about their surroundings in realistic real-world settings remains difficult, partly due to the scarcity of benchmarks for episodic memory Embodied Question Answering (EQA). Inspired by the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Subin Varghese , Joshua Gao , Asad Ur Rahman , Vedhus Hoskere

In this paper, we propose a novel task, Manipulation Question Answering (MQA), where the robot performs manipulation actions to change the environment in order to answer a given question. To solve this problem, a framework consisting of a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-02-22 Yuhong Deng , Di Guo , Xiaofeng Guo , Naifu Zhang , Huaping Liu , Fuchun Sun

Embodied Question Answering (EQA) has primarily focused on indoor environments, leaving the complexities of urban settings-spanning environment, action, and perception-largely unexplored. To bridge this gap, we introduce CityEQA, a new task…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Yong Zhao , Kai Xu , Zhengqiu Zhu , Yue Hu , Zhiheng Zheng , Yingfeng Chen , Yatai Ji , Chen Gao , Yong Li , Jincai Huang

An embodied task such as embodied question answering (EmbodiedQA), requires an agent to explore the environment and collect clues to answer a given question that related with specific objects in the scene. The solution of such task usually…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Yang Wu , Shirui Feng , Guanbin Li , Liang Lin

Knowledge-based visual question answering (KVQA) task aims to answer questions that require additional external knowledge as well as an understanding of images and questions. Recent studies on KVQA inject an external knowledge in a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-28 Jinyeong Chae , Jihie Kim

We explore blindfold (question-only) baselines for Embodied Question Answering. The EmbodiedQA task requires an agent to answer a question by intelligently navigating in a simulated environment, gathering necessary visual information only…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-14 Ankesh Anand , Eugene Belilovsky , Kyle Kastner , Hugo Larochelle , Aaron Courville

The last several years have seen intensive interest in exploring neural-network-based models for machine comprehension (MC) and question answering (QA). In this paper, we approach the problems by closely modelling questions in a neural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-03-28 Junbei Zhang , Xiaodan Zhu , Qian Chen , Lirong Dai , Si Wei , Hui Jiang

Visual question answering (Visual QA) has attracted significant attention these years. While a variety of algorithms have been proposed, most of them are built upon different combinations of image and language features as well as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-30 Cheng Zhang , Wei-Lun Chao , Dong Xuan

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

This paper formulates the Embodied Questions Answering (EQsA) problem, introduces a corresponding benchmark, and proposes an agentic system to tackle the problem. Classical Embodied Question Answering (EQA) is typically formulated as…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Haisheng Wang , Dong Liu , Weiming Zhi