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Understanding infographic charts with design-driven visual elements (e.g., pictograms, icons) requires both visual recognition and reasoning, posing challenges for multimodal large language models (MLLMs). However, existing visual-question…

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Chart question answering (CQA) has become a critical multimodal task for evaluating the reasoning capabilities of vision-language models. While early approaches have shown promising performance by focusing on visual features or leveraging…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Jingxuan Wei , Nan Xu , Junnan Zhu , Yanni Hao , Gaowei Wu , Bihui Yu , Lei Wang

Chart question answering (CQA) is a task used for assessing chart comprehension, which is fundamentally different from understanding natural images. CQA requires analyzing the relationships between the textual and the visual components of a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Matan Levy , Rami Ben-Ari , Dani Lischinski

Current visual question answering (VQA) tasks mainly consider answering human-annotated questions for natural images. However, aside from natural images, abstract diagrams with semantic richness are still understudied in visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Pan Lu , Liang Qiu , Jiaqi Chen , Tony Xia , Yizhou Zhao , Wei Zhang , Zhou Yu , Xiaodan Liang , Song-Chun Zhu

Charts are commonly used for exploring data and communicating insights. Generating natural language summaries from charts can be very helpful for people in inferring key insights that would otherwise require a lot of cognitive and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-15 Shankar Kantharaj , Rixie Tiffany Ko Leong , Xiang Lin , Ahmed Masry , Megh Thakkar , Enamul Hoque , Shafiq Joty

Visual Question Answering (VQA) has become an important benchmark for assessing how large multimodal models (LMMs) interpret images. However, most VQA datasets focus on real-world images or simple diagrammatic analysis, with few focused on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Jill P. Naiman , Daniel J. Evans , JooYoung Seo

Charts are widely used to present complex information. Deriving meaningful insights in real-world contexts often requires interpreting multiple related charts together. Research on understanding multi-chart images has not been extensively…

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Documents are fundamental to preserving and disseminating information, often incorporating complex layouts, tables, and charts that pose significant challenges for automatic document understanding (DU). While vision-language large models…

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Misleading visualizations, which manipulate chart representations to support specific claims, can distort perception and lead to incorrect conclusions. Despite decades of research, they remain a widespread issue, posing risks to public…

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To completely understand a document, the use of textual information is not enough. Understanding visual cues, such as layouts and charts, is also required. While the current state-of-the-art approaches for document understanding (both…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-07 Ashim Gupta , Vivek Gupta , Shuo Zhang , Yujie He , Ning Zhang , Shalin Shah

While diverse question answering (QA) datasets have been proposed and contributed significantly to the development of deep learning models for QA tasks, the existing datasets fall short in two aspects. First, we lack QA datasets covering…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-15 Qiyuan Zhang , Lei Wang , Sicheng Yu , Shuohang Wang , Yang Wang , Jing Jiang , Ee-Peng Lim

Chart question-answering (QA) benchmarks aim to pose questions that require visual reasoning to correctly answer, but models can often reach solutions through shortcuts or prior familiarity with a chart based on their own background…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Yifan Jiang , Dae Yon Hwang , Jesse C. Cresswell , Freda Shi

We propose a novel framework that leverages Visual Question Answering (VQA) models to automate the evaluation of LLM-generated data visualizations. Traditional evaluation methods often rely on human judgment, which is costly and unscalable,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-30 James Ford , Xingmeng Zhao , Dan Schumacher , Anthony Rios

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 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

Existing synthetic datasets (FigureQA, DVQA) for reasoning over plots do not contain variability in data labels, real-valued data, or complex reasoning questions. Consequently, proposed models for these datasets do not fully address the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-04 Nitesh Methani , Pritha Ganguly , Mitesh M. Khapra , Pratyush Kumar

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have shown impressive capabilities in image understanding and generation. However, current benchmarks fail to accurately evaluate the chart comprehension of MLLMs due to limited chart types and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Zhengzhuo Xu , Sinan Du , Yiyan Qi , Chengjin Xu , Chun Yuan , Jian Guo

We introduce InterChart, a diagnostic benchmark that evaluates how well vision-language models (VLMs) reason across multiple related charts, a task central to real-world applications such as scientific reporting, financial analysis, and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Anirudh Iyengar Kaniyar Narayana Iyengar , Srija Mukhopadhyay , Adnan Qidwai , Shubhankar Singh , Dan Roth , Vivek Gupta

Recently, Vision Language Models (VLMs) have increasingly emphasized document visual grounding to achieve better human-computer interaction, accessibility, and detailed understanding. However, its application to visualizations such as…

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