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We study the problem of visual question answering (VQA) in images by exploiting supervised domain adaptation, where there is a large amount of labeled data in the source domain but only limited labeled data in the target domain with the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-12 Yiming Xu , Lin Chen , Zhongwei Cheng , Lixin Duan , Jiebo Luo

This paper introduces speech-based visual question answering (VQA), the task of generating an answer given an image and a spoken question. Two methods are studied: an end-to-end, deep neural network that directly uses audio waveforms as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-09-19 Ted Zhang , Dengxin Dai , Tinne Tuytelaars , Marie-Francine Moens , Luc Van Gool

In outside knowledge visual question answering (OK-VQA), the model must identify relevant visual information within an image and incorporate external knowledge to accurately respond to a question. Extending this task to a visually grounded…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Benjamin Reichman , Constantin Patsch , Jack Truxal , Atishay Jain , Larry Heck

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

Visual Question Answering (VQA) models aim to answer natural language questions about given images. Due to its ability to ask questions that differ from those used when training the model, medical VQA has received substantial attention in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Sergio Tascon-Morales , Pablo Márquez-Neila , Raphael Sznitman

This thesis report studies methods to solve Visual Question-Answering (VQA) tasks with a Deep Learning framework. As a preliminary step, we explore Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) networks used in Natural Language Processing (NLP) to tackle…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-10-11 Issey Masuda , Santiago Pascual de la Puente , Xavier Giro-i-Nieto

Methods for teaching machines to answer visual questions have made significant progress in recent years, but current methods still lack important human capabilities, including integrating new visual classes and concepts in a modular manner,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-27 Ben-Zion Vatashsky , Shimon Ullman

Answering open-ended questions is an essential capability for any intelligent agent. One of the most interesting recent open-ended question answering challenges is Visual Question Answering (VQA) which attempts to evaluate a system's visual…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-10-25 Omid Bakhshandeh , Trung Bui , Zhe Lin , Walter Chang

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) has been gaining a lot of traction in the machine learning community in the recent years due to the challenges posed in understanding information coming from multiple modalities (i.e., images, language). In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-11 Muralikrishnna G. Sethuraman , Ali Payani , Faramarz Fekri , J. Clayton Kerce

Text-based VQA aims at answering questions by reading the text present in the images. It requires a large amount of scene-text relationship understanding compared to the VQA task. Recent studies have shown that the question-answer pairs in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-02 Shamanthak Hegde , Soumya Jahagirdar , Shankar Gangisetty

Most Outside-Knowledge Visual Question Answering (OK-VQA) systems employ a two-stage framework that first retrieves external knowledge given the visual question and then predicts the answer based on the retrieved content. However, the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-24 Jialin Wu , Raymond J. Mooney

Visual question answering (VQA) requires joint comprehension of images and natural language questions, where many questions can't be directly or clearly answered from visual content but require reasoning from structured human knowledge with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-14 Zhou Su , Chen Zhu , Yinpeng Dong , Dongqi Cai , Yurong Chen , Jianguo Li

This paper is on the problem of Knowledge-Based Visual Question Answering (KB-VQA). Recent works have emphasized the significance of incorporating both explicit (through external databases) and implicit (through LLMs) knowledge to answer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-25 Alexandros Xenos , Themos Stafylakis , Ioannis Patras , Georgios Tzimiropoulos

Visual question answering (VQA) has traditionally been treated as a single-step task where each question receives the same amount of effort, unlike natural human question-answering strategies. We explore a question decomposition strategy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Zaid Khan , Vijay Kumar BG , Samuel Schulter , Manmohan Chandraker , Yun Fu

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

Visual Question Answering (VQA) research is split into two camps: the first focuses on VQA datasets that require natural image understanding and the second focuses on synthetic datasets that test reasoning. A good VQA algorithm should be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-08 Robik Shrestha , Kushal Kafle , Christopher Kanan

Visual question answering (VQA) is a challenging task to provide an accurate natural language answer given an image and a natural language question about the image. It involves multi-modal learning, i.e., computer vision (CV) and natural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Luoqian Jiang , Yifan He , Jian Chen

Visual question answering (VQA) and image captioning require a shared body of general knowledge connecting language and vision. We present a novel approach to improve VQA performance that exploits this connection by jointly generating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-07 Jialin Wu , Zeyuan Hu , Raymond J. Mooney

Visual question answering (or VQA) is a new and exciting problem that combines natural language processing and computer vision techniques. We present a survey of the various datasets and models that have been used to tackle this task. The…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-05-12 Akshay Kumar Gupta