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We introduce GQA, a new dataset for real-world visual reasoning and compositional question answering, seeking to address key shortcomings of previous VQA datasets. We have developed a strong and robust question engine that leverages scene…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-07-12 Drew A. Hudson , Christopher D. Manning

Recently, Visual Question Answering (VQA) has emerged as one of the most significant tasks in multimodal learning as it requires understanding both visual and textual modalities. Existing methods mainly rely on extracting image and question…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-23 Pan Lu , Lei Ji , Wei Zhang , Nan Duan , Ming Zhou , Jianyong Wang

Medical Visual Question Answering~(VQA) is a combination of medical artificial intelligence and popular VQA challenges. Given a medical image and a clinically relevant question in natural language, the medical VQA system is expected to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-12 Zhihong Lin , Donghao Zhang , Qingyi Tao , Danli Shi , Gholamreza Haffari , Qi Wu , Mingguang He , Zongyuan Ge

We introduce MASSES, a simple evaluation metric for the task of Visual Question Answering (VQA). In its standard form, the VQA task is operationalized as follows: Given an image and an open-ended question in natural language, systems are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-13 Shailza Jolly , Sandro Pezzelle , Tassilo Klein , Andreas Dengel , Moin Nabi

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

Multiple Choice Question Answering (MCQA) benchmarks are an established standard for measuring Vision Language Model (VLM) performance in driving tasks. However, we observe the known phenomenon that synthetically generated MCQAs are highly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Sutej Kulgod , Sean Ye , Sanchit Tanwar , Christoffer Heckman

Zero-shot Visual Question Answering (VQA) is a prominent vision-language task that examines both the visual and textual understanding capability of systems in the absence of training data. Recently, by converting the images into captions,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-16 Yunshi Lan , Xiang Li , Xin Liu , Yang Li , Wei Qin , Weining Qian

In recent years, there has been a growing emphasis on the intersection of audio, vision, and text modalities, driving forward the advancements in multimodal research. However, strong bias that exists in any modality can lead to the model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-11 Xiulong Liu , Zhikang Dong , Peng Zhang

Deep Neural Networks have been successfully used for the task of Visual Question Answering for the past few years owing to the availability of relevant large scale datasets. However these datasets are created in artificial settings and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-17 Shaunak Halbe

Deep neural networks have been playing an essential role in the task of Visual Question Answering (VQA). Until recently, their accuracy has been the main focus of research. Now there is a trend toward assessing the robustness of these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-04 Jia-Hong Huang , Modar Alfadly , Bernard Ghanem , Marcel Worring

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

In visual question answering (VQA) context, users often pose ambiguous questions to visual language models (VLMs) due to varying expression habits. Existing research addresses such ambiguities primarily by rephrasing questions. These…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Pu Jian , Donglei Yu , Wen Yang , Shuo Ren , Jiajun Zhang

Visual Question Answering (VQA) models have struggled with counting objects in natural images so far. We identify a fundamental problem due to soft attention in these models as a cause. To circumvent this problem, we propose a neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-19 Yan Zhang , Jonathon Hare , Adam Prügel-Bennett

Visual question answering (VQA) is challenging not only because the model has to handle multi-modal information, but also because it is just so hard to collect sufficient training examples -- there are too many questions one can ask about…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-10 Jihyung Kil , Cheng Zhang , Dong Xuan , Wei-Lun Chao

Video Question Answering (VideoQA) has made significant strides by leveraging multimodal learning to align visual and textual modalities. However, current benchmarks overwhelmingly focus on questions answerable through explicit visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Sirnam Swetha , Rohit Gupta , Parth Parag Kulkarni , David G Shatwell , Jeffrey A Chan Santiago , Nyle Siddiqui , Joseph Fioresi , Mubarak Shah

The end-to-end learning ability of self-driving vehicles has achieved significant milestones over the last decade owing to rapid advances in deep learning and computer vision algorithms. However, as autonomous driving technology is a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-21 Shahin Atakishiyev , Mohammad Salameh , Housam Babiker , Randy Goebel

Visual question answering (VQA) models respond to open-ended natural language questions about images. While VQA is an increasingly popular area of research, it is unclear to what extent current VQA architectures learn key semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-25 Gabriel Grand , Aron Szanto , Yoon Kim , Alexander Rush

Fact-based Visual Question Answering (FVQA) requires external knowledge beyond visible content to answer questions about an image, which is challenging but indispensable to achieve general VQA. One limitation of existing FVQA solutions is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-05 Zihao Zhu , Jing Yu , Yujing Wang , Yajing Sun , Yue Hu , Qi Wu

Visual Question Answering (VQA) is a recent problem in computer vision and natural language processing that has garnered a large amount of interest from the deep learning, computer vision, and natural language processing communities. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-16 Kushal Kafle , Christopher Kanan