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In this paper, we study the problem of visual question answering (VQA) where the image and query are represented by ASP programs that lack domain data. We provide an approach that is orthogonal and complementary to existing knowledge…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-02-14 Al Mehdi Saadat Chowdhury , Paulo Shakarian , Gerardo I. Simari

This paper revisits visual representation in knowledge-based visual question answering (VQA) and demonstrates that using regional information in a better way can significantly improve the performance. While visual representation is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Yuanze Lin , Yujia Xie , Dongdong Chen , Yichong Xu , Chenguang Zhu , Lu Yuan

We study the Knowledge-Based visual question-answering problem, for which given a question, the models need to ground it into the visual modality to find the answer. Although many recent works use question-dependent captioners to verbalize…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-06-28 Elham J. Barezi , Parisa Kordjamshidi

Incorporating external knowledge to Visual Question Answering (VQA) has become a vital practical need. Existing methods mostly adopt pipeline approaches with different components for knowledge matching and extraction, feature learning,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Zhuo Chen , Jiaoyan Chen , Yuxia Geng , Jeff Z. Pan , Zonggang Yuan , Huajun Chen

Visual question answering (VQA) demands simultaneous comprehension of both the image visual content and natural language questions. In some cases, the reasoning needs the help of common sense or general knowledge which usually appear in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-30 Hui Li , Peng Wang , Chunhua Shen , Anton van den Hengel

Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) with large language models (LLMs) plays a crucial role in question answering, as LLMs possess limited knowledge and are not updated with continuously growing information. Most recent work on RAG has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Shichao Kan , Yuhai Deng , Jiale Fu , Lihui Cen , Zhe Qu , Linna Zhang , Yixiong Liang , Yigang Cen

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

In the realm of multimodal tasks, Visual Question Answering (VQA) plays a crucial role by addressing natural language questions grounded in visual content. Knowledge-Based Visual Question Answering (KBVQA) advances this concept by adding…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Manas Jhalani , Annervaz K M , Pushpak Bhattacharyya

This paper introduces the task of visual question answering for remote sensing data (RSVQA). Remote sensing images contain a wealth of information which can be useful for a wide range of tasks including land cover classification, object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-15 Sylvain Lobry , Diego Marcos , Jesse Murray , Devis Tuia

Visual question answering (VQA) task not only bridges the gap between images and language, but also requires that specific contents within the image are understood as indicated by linguistic context of the question, in order to generate the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-05 Kuniaki Saito , Andrew Shin , Yoshitaka Ushiku , Tatsuya Harada

We present a novel problem of text-based visual question generation or TextVQG in short. Given the recent growing interest of the document image analysis community in combining text understanding with conversational artificial intelligence,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-24 Soumya Jahagirdar , Shankar Gangisetty , Anand Mishra

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

Text-based visual question answering (VQA) requires to read and understand text in an image to correctly answer a given question. However, most current methods simply add optical character recognition (OCR) tokens extracted from the image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Zan-Xia Jin , Heran Wu , Chun Yang , Fang Zhou , Jingyan Qin , Lei Xiao , Xu-Cheng Yin

The predominant approach to Visual Question Answering (VQA) demands that the model represents within its weights all of the information required to answer any question about any image. Learning this information from any real training set…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-23 Damien Teney , Anton van den Hengel

Visual question answering (VQA) is a task of answering a visual question that is a pair of question and image. Some visual questions are ambiguous and some are clear, and it may be appropriate to change the ambiguity of questions from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-02 Kento Terao , Toru Tamaki , Bisser Raytchev , Kazufumi Kaneda , Shun'ichi Satoh

Visual Question Answering (VQA) has attracted a lot of attention in both Computer Vision and Natural Language Processing communities, not least because it offers insight into the relationships between two important sources of information.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-09 Peng Wang , Qi Wu , Chunhua Shen , Anton van den Hengel , Anthony Dick

Knowledge-based visual question answering (KB-VQA) requires vision-language models to understand images and use external knowledge, especially for rare entities and long-tail facts. Most existing retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Zhuohong Chen , Zhenxian Wu , Yunyao Yu , Hangrui Xu , Zirui Liao , Zhifang Liu , Xiangwen Deng , Pen Jiao , Haoqian Wang

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

Much recent progress in Vision-to-Language problems has been achieved through a combination of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) and Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs). This approach does not explicitly represent high-level semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-12-19 Qi Wu , Chunhua Shen , Anton van den Hengel , Peng Wang , Anthony Dick

Part of the appeal of Visual Question Answering (VQA) is its promise to answer new questions about previously unseen images. Most current methods demand training questions that illustrate every possible concept, and will therefore never…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-22 Damien Teney , Anton van den Hengel