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Multi-modal reasoning in visual question answering (VQA) has witnessed rapid progress recently. However, most reasoning models heavily rely on shortcuts learned from training data, which prevents their usage in challenging real-world…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Qi Zheng , Chaoyue Wang , Daqing Liu , Dadong Wang , Dacheng Tao

Video Question Answering (VideoQA) models enhance understanding and interaction with audiovisual content, making it more accessible, searchable, and useful for a wide range of fields such as education, surveillance, entertainment, and…

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Video question answering that requires external knowledge beyond the visual content remains a significant challenge in AI systems. While models can effectively answer questions based on direct visual observations, they often falter when…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-02-19 Md Zarif Ul Alam , Hamed Zamani

Visual Question Answering (VQA) is a challenging task that requires systems to provide accurate answers to questions based on image content. Current VQA models struggle with complex questions due to limitations in capturing and integrating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Peiyuan Chen , Zecheng Zhang , Yiping Dong , Li Zhou , Han Wang

Video Question Answering (VideoQA) has emerged as a challenging frontier in the field of multimedia processing, requiring intricate interactions between visual and textual modalities. Simply uniformly sampling frames or indiscriminately…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-24 Jianxin Liang , Xiaojun Meng , Yueqian Wang , Chang Liu , Qun Liu , Dongyan Zhao

Video Question Answering (VideoQA) is the task of answering questions about a video. At its core is understanding the alignments between visual scenes in video and linguistic semantics in question to yield the answer. In leading VideoQA…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Yicong Li , Xiang Wang , Junbin Xiao , Wei Ji , Tat-Seng Chua

While vision-language models (VLMs) excel at tasks involving single images or short videos, they still struggle with Long Video Question Answering (LVQA) due to its demand for complex multi-step temporal reasoning. Vanilla approaches, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Sahil Shah , S P Sharan , Harsh Goel , Minkyu Choi , Mustafa Munir , Manvik Pasula , Radu Marculescu , Sandeep Chinchali

Significant progress has been made in the field of video question answering (VideoQA) thanks to deep learning and large-scale pretraining. Despite the presence of sophisticated model structures and powerful video-text foundation models,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Haopeng Li , Tom Drummond , Mingming Gong , Mohammed Bennamoun , Qiuhong Ke

Despite significant progress in video question answering (VideoQA), existing methods fall short of questions that require causal/temporal reasoning across frames. This can be attributed to imprecise motion representations. We introduce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Junwen Chen , Jie Zhu , Yu Kong

Scaling Visual Question Answering (VQA) to the open-domain and multi-hop nature of web searches, requires fundamental advances in visual representation learning, knowledge aggregation, and language generation. In this work, we introduce…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Yingshan Chang , Mridu Narang , Hisami Suzuki , Guihong Cao , Jianfeng Gao , Yonatan Bisk

Video question answering (VQA) is a multimodal task that requires the interpretation of a video to answer a given question. Existing VQA methods primarily utilize question and answer (Q&A) pairs to learn the spatio-temporal characteristics…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Ju-Young Oh , Ho-Joong Kim , Seong-Whan Lee

Video-Question-Answering (VideoQA) comprises the capturing of complex visual relation changes over time, remaining a challenge even for advanced Video Language Models (VLM), i.a., because of the need to represent the visual content to a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Sofian Chaybouti , Walid Bousselham , Moritz Wolter , Hilde Kuehne

In the broader context of deep learning, Multimodal Large Language Models have achieved significant breakthroughs by leveraging powerful Large Language Models as a backbone to align different modalities into the language space. A prime…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Eunseop Yoon , Hee Suk Yoon , Mark A. Hasegawa-Johnson , Chang D. Yoo

We present MCQA, a learning-based algorithm for multimodal question answering. MCQA explicitly fuses and aligns the multimodal input (i.e. text, audio, and video), which forms the context for the query (question and answer). Our approach…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-28 Abhishek Kumar , Trisha Mittal , Dinesh Manocha

In this work, we propose an efficient Video-Language Alignment (ViLA) network. Our ViLA model addresses both efficient frame sampling and effective cross-modal alignment in a unified way. In our ViLA network, we design a new learnable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-02 Xijun Wang , Junbang Liang , Chun-Kai Wang , Kenan Deng , Yu Lou , Ming Lin , Shan Yang

Audio-Visual Question Answering (AVQA) requires models to effectively utilize both visual and auditory modalities to answer complex and diverse questions about audio-visual scenes. However, existing methods lack sufficient flexibility and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Jiayu Zhang , Shuo Ye , Qilang Ye , Xun Lin , Zihan Song , Zitong Yu

We present Video-LLaMA a multi-modal framework that empowers Large Language Models (LLMs) with the capability of understanding both visual and auditory content in the video. Video-LLaMA bootstraps cross-modal training from the frozen…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Hang Zhang , Xin Li , Lidong Bing

Multimodal large language models have recently achieved remarkable progress in video question answering (VideoQA) by jointly processing visual, textual, and audio information. However, it remains unclear which video representations are most…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Zhi Li , Yanan Wang , Hao Niu , Julio Vizcarra , Masato Taya

This paper tackles the intricate challenge of video question-answering (VideoQA). Despite notable progress, current methods fall short of effectively integrating questions with video frames and semantic object-level abstractions to create…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-13 Sai Bhargav Rongali , Mohamad Hassan N C , Ankit Jha , Neha Bhargava , Saurabh Prasad , Biplab Banerjee

Video question answering (VideoQA) is challenging given its multimodal combination of visual understanding and natural language processing. While most existing approaches ignore the visual appearance-motion information at different temporal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Min Peng , Chongyang Wang , Yuan Gao , Yu Shi , Xiang-Dong Zhou