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Embodied Question Answering (EQA) is an essential yet challenging task for robot assistants. Large vision-language models (VLMs) have shown promise for EQA, but existing approaches either treat it as static video question answering without…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Kai Cheng , Zhengyuan Li , Xingpeng Sun , Byung-Cheol Min , Amrit Singh Bedi , Aniket Bera

Video Question Answering (VQA) requires models to reason over spatial, temporal, and causal cues in videos. Recent vision language models (VLMs) achieve strong results but often rely on shallow correlations, leading to weak temporal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Haodi Ma , Vyom Pathak , Daisy Zhe Wang

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) still struggle with complex reasoning tasks in Visual Question Answering (VQA). While current methods have advanced by incorporating visual prompts, our study uncovers critical limitations: these…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Songtao Jiang , Chenyi Zhou , Yan Zhang , Yeying Jin , Zuozhu Liu

To address computational and memory limitations of Large Multimodal Models in the Video Question-Answering task, several recent methods extract textual representations per frame (e.g., by captioning) and feed them to a Large Language Model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Andreas Goulas , Vasileios Mezaris , Ioannis Patras

Visual Question Answering (VQA) models employ attention mechanisms to discover image locations that are most relevant for answering a specific question. For this purpose, several multimodal fusion strategies have been proposed, ranging from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-26 Moshiur R Farazi , Salman H Khan , Nick Barnes

Multimodal video summarization requires visual features that align semantically with language generation. Traditional approaches rely on CNN features trained for object classification, which represent visual concepts as discrete categories…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Maham Nazir , Muhammad Aqeel , Richong Zhang , Francesco Setti

Grounded video question answering (GVQA) aims to localize relevant temporal segments in videos and generate accurate answers to a given question; however, large video-language models (LVLMs) exhibit limited temporal awareness. Although…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Xiaoqian Shen , Min-Hung Chen , Yu-Chiang Frank Wang , Mohamed Elhoseiny , Ryo Hachiuma

There has been a recent spike in interest in multi-modal Language and Vision problems. On the language side, most of these models primarily focus on English since most multi-modal datasets are monolingual. We try to bridge this gap with a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-10 Pranav Aggarwal , Ajinkya Kale

The task of learning from only a few examples (called a few-shot setting) is of key importance and relevance to a real-world setting. For question answering (QA), the current state-of-the-art pre-trained models typically need fine-tuning on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-13 Rakesh Chada , Pradeep Natarajan

Foundational multimodal models pre-trained on large scale image-text pairs or video-text pairs or both have shown strong generalization abilities on downstream tasks. However unlike image-text models, pretraining video-text models is always…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Avinash Madasu , Anahita Bhiwandiwalla , Vasudev Lal

In continual visual question answering (VQA), existing Continual Learning (CL) methods are mostly built for symmetric, unimodal architectures. However, modern Vision-Language Models (VLMs) violate this assumption, as their trainable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Peifeng Zhang , Zice Qiu , Donghua Yu , Shilei Cao , Juepeng Zheng , Yutong Lu , Haohuan Fu

Video question answering is a challenging task that requires understanding jointly the language input, the visual information in individual video frames, as well as the temporal information about the events occurring in the video. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-02 AJ Piergiovanni , Kairo Morton , Weicheng Kuo , Michael S. Ryoo , Anelia Angelova

This paper proposes the first video-grounded entailment tree reasoning method for commonsense video question answering (VQA). Despite the remarkable progress of large visual-language models (VLMs), there are growing concerns that they learn…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Huabin Liu , Filip Ilievski , Cees G. M. Snoek

CLIP has shown a remarkable zero-shot capability on a wide range of vision tasks. Previously, CLIP is only regarded as a powerful visual encoder. However, after being pre-trained by language supervision from a large amount of image-caption…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Haoyu Song , Li Dong , Wei-Nan Zhang , Ting Liu , Furu Wei

Visual question answering (VQA) is crucial for promoting surgical education. In practice, the needs of trainees are constantly evolving, such as learning more surgical types, adapting to different robots, and learning new surgical…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-10-24 Yuyang Du , Kexin Chen , Yue Zhan , Chang Han Low , Tao You , Mobarakol Islam , Ziyu Guo , Yueming Jin , Guangyong Chen , Pheng-Ann Heng

Building models that can be rapidly adapted to novel tasks using only a handful of annotated examples is an open challenge for multimodal machine learning research. We introduce Flamingo, a family of Visual Language Models (VLM) with this…

The rocketing prosperity of large language models (LLMs) in recent years has boosted the prevalence of vision-language models (VLMs) in the medical sector. In our online medical consultation scenario, a doctor responds to the texts and…

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

Visual Question Answering (VQA) has recently emerged as a potential research domain, captivating the interest of many in the field of artificial intelligence and computer vision. Despite the prevalence of approaches in English, there is a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-01 Ngoc Son Nguyen , Van Son Nguyen , Tung Le

Visual question answering (VQA) in medical imaging aims to support clinical diagnosis by automatically interpreting complex imaging data in response to natural language queries. Existing studies typically rely on distinct visual and textual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Yuanhe Tian , Chen Su , Junwen Duan , Yan Song