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Video Question Answering (VideoQA) in the surgical domain aims to enhance intraoperative understanding by enabling AI models to reason over temporally coherent events rather than isolated frames. Current approaches are limited to static…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Mauro Orazio Drago , Luca Carlini , Pelinsu Celebi Balyemez , Dennis Pierantozzi , Chiara Lena , Cesare Hassan , Danail Stoyanov , Elena De Momi , Sophia Bano , Mobarak I. Hoque

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

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

Teaching Visual Question Answering (VQA) models to refrain from answering unanswerable questions is necessary for building a trustworthy AI system. Existing studies, though have explored various aspects of VQA but somewhat ignored this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-22 Yangyang Guo , Fangkai Jiao , Zhiqi Shen , Liqiang Nie , Mohan Kankanhalli

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

This paper proposes CQ-VQA, a novel 2-level hierarchical but end-to-end model to solve the task of visual question answering (VQA). The first level of CQ-VQA, referred to as question categorizer (QC), classifies questions to reduce the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-18 Aakansha Mishra , Ashish Anand , Prithwijit Guha

This work aims to address the problem of image-based question-answering (QA) with new models and datasets. In our work, we propose to use neural networks and visual semantic embeddings, without intermediate stages such as object detection…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-12-01 Mengye Ren , Ryan Kiros , Richard Zemel

Visual Question Answering (VQA) methods have made incredible progress, but suffer from a failure to generalize. This is visible in the fact that they are vulnerable to learning coincidental correlations in the data rather than deeper…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-27 Xinyu Wang , Yuliang Liu , Chunhua Shen , Chun Chet Ng , Canjie Luo , Lianwen Jin , Chee Seng Chan , Anton van den Hengel , Liangwei Wang

Transformer-based architectures have recently demonstrated remarkable performance in the Visual Question Answering (VQA) task. However, such models are likely to disregard crucial visual cues and often rely on multimodal shortcuts and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-08 Maria Parelli , Dimitrios Mallis , Markos Diomataris , Vassilis Pitsikalis

Medical vision--language models (VLMs) have shown strong potential for medical visual question answering (VQA), yet their reasoning remains largely text-centric: images are encoded once as static context, and subsequent inference is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Suyang Xi , Songtao Hu , Yuxiang Lai , Wangyun Dan , Yaqi Liu , Shansong Wang , Xiaofeng Yang

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

Scientific visual question answering poses significant challenges for vision-language models due to the complexity of scientific figures and their multimodal context. Traditional approaches treat the figure and accompanying text (e.g.,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Belal Shoer , Yova Kementchedjhieva

Visual Question Answering (VQA) presents a unique challenge by requiring models to understand and reason about visual content to answer questions accurately. Existing VQA models often struggle with biases introduced by the training data,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Zhifei Li , Feng Qiu , Yiran Wang , Yujing Xia , Kui Xiao , Miao Zhang , Yan Zhang

Visual question answering (VQA) is a challenging task, which has attracted more and more attention in the field of computer vision and natural language processing. However, the current visual question answering has the problem of language…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-17 Desen Yuan

Existing Visual Question Answering (VQA) methods tend to exploit dataset biases and spurious statistical correlations, instead of producing right answers for the right reasons. To address this issue, recent bias mitigation methods for VQA…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-24 Robik Shrestha , Kushal Kafle , Christopher Kanan

Visual Question Answering (VQA) is increasingly used in diverse applications ranging from general visual reasoning to safety-critical domains such as medical imaging and autonomous systems, where models must provide not only accurate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Xingjian Diao , Weiyi Wu , Keyi Kong , Peijun Qing , Xinwen Xu , Ming Cheng , Soroush Vosoughi , Jiang Gui

In question-answering scenarios, humans can assess whether the available information is sufficient and seek additional information if necessary, rather than providing a forced answer. In contrast, Vision Language Models (VLMs) typically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-04 Li Liu , Diji Yang , Sijia Zhong , Kalyana Suma Sree Tholeti , Lei Ding , Yi Zhang , Leilani H. Gilpin

Visual Question Answering (VQA) deep-learning systems tend to capture superficial statistical correlations in the training data because of strong language priors and fail to generalize to test data with a significantly different…

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

Knowledge-based visual question answering (KB-VQA) requires a model to understand images and utilize external knowledge to provide accurate answers. Existing approaches often directly augment models with retrieved information from knowledge…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Zhiyue Liu , Sihang Liu , Jinyuan Liu , Xinru Zhang

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