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Vision-Language (VL) models have gained significant research focus, enabling remarkable advances in multimodal reasoning. These architectures typically comprise a vision encoder, a Large Language Model (LLM), and a projection module that…

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Recent advances in causal interpretability have extended from language models to vision-language models (VLMs), seeking to reveal their internal mechanisms through input interventions. While textual interventions often target semantics,…

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Knowledge-intensive visual question answering (VQA) requires external knowledge beyond image content, demanding precise visual grounding and coherent integration of visual and textual information. Although multimodal retrieval-augmented…

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Recently, neural module networks (NMNs) have yielded ongoing success in answering compositional visual questions, especially those involving multi-hop visual and logical reasoning. NMNs decompose the complex question into several sub-tasks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Yuhang Liu , Daowan Peng , Wei Wei , Yuanyuan Fu , Wenfeng Xie , Dangyang Chen

We present a novel multimodal interpretable VQA model that can answer the question more accurately and generate diverse explanations. Although researchers have proposed several methods that can generate human-readable and fine-grained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-09 He Zhu , Ren Togo , Takahiro Ogawa , Miki Haseyama

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) presents a unique challenge as it requires the ability to understand and encode the multi-modal inputs - in terms of image processing and natural language processing. The algorithm further needs to learn how…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-26 Supriya Pandhre , Shagun Sodhani

Knowledge-based visual question answering (KB-VQA) requires vision-language models to understand images and use external knowledge, especially for rare entities and long-tail facts. Most existing retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) methods…

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Vision-Language Models (VLMs) excel in diverse multimodal tasks. However, user requirements vary across scenarios, which can be categorized into fast response, high-quality output, and low energy consumption. Relying solely on large models…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Xin Tang , Youfang Han , Fangfei Gou , Wei Zhao , Xin Meng , Yang Yu , Jinguo Zhang , Yuanchun Shi , Yuntao Wang , Tengxiang Zhang

Visual Question Answering (VQA) has been a popular task that combines vision and language, with numerous relevant implementations in literature. Even though there are some attempts that approach explainability and robustness issues in VQA…

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Visual Commonsense Reasoning (VCR) remains a significant yet challenging research problem in the realm of visual reasoning. A VCR model generally aims at answering a textual question regarding an image, followed by the rationale prediction…

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Recently, to comprehensively improve Vision Language Models (VLMs) for Visual Question Answering (VQA), several methods have been proposed to further reinforce the inference capabilities of VLMs to independently tackle VQA tasks rather than…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-17 Zeqing Wang , Wentao Wan , Qiqing Lao , Runmeng Chen , Minjie Lang , Xiao Wang , Keze Wang , Liang Lin

We present VQA-MHUG - a novel 49-participant dataset of multimodal human gaze on both images and questions during visual question answering (VQA) collected using a high-speed eye tracker. We use our dataset to analyze the similarity between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Ekta Sood , Fabian Kögel , Florian Strohm , Prajit Dhar , Andreas Bulling

Capsule networks are a neural network architecture specialized for visual scene recognition. Features and pose information are extracted from a scene and then dynamically routed through a hierarchy of vector-valued nodes called 'capsules'…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2022-10-07 Alex B. Kiefer , Beren Millidge , Alexander Tschantz , Christopher L. Buckley

Research in medical visual question answering (MVQA) can contribute to the development of computeraided diagnosis. MVQA is a task that aims to predict accurate and convincing answers based on given medical images and associated natural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Xiaofei Huang , Hongfang Gong

Exploiting relationships between visual regions and question words have achieved great success in learning multi-modality features for Visual Question Answering (VQA). However, we argue that existing methods mostly model relations between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-14 Peng Gao , Haoxuan You , Zhanpeng Zhang , Xiaogang Wang , Hongsheng Li

Texts in scene images convey critical information for scene understanding and reasoning. The abilities of reading and reasoning matter for the model in the text-based visual question answering (TextVQA) process. However, current TextVQA…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Chengyang Fang , Gangyan Zeng , Yu Zhou , Daiqing Wu , Can Ma , Dayong Hu , Weiping Wang

Medical visual question answering (VQA) aims to answer clinically relevant questions regarding input medical images. This technique has the potential to improve the efficiency of medical professionals while relieving the burden on the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Xinyue Hu , Lin Gu , Kazuma Kobayashi , Qiyuan An , Qingyu Chen , Zhiyong Lu , Chang Su , Tatsuya Harada , Yingying Zhu

Multimodal pre-training demonstrates its potential in the medical domain, which learns medical visual representations from paired medical reports. However, many pre-training tasks require extra annotations from clinicians, and most of them…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-02 Tongkun Su , Jun Li , Xi Zhang , Haibo Jin , Hao Chen , Qiong Wang , Faqin Lv , Baoliang Zhao , Yin Hu

Vision Language Models excel in handling a wide range of complex tasks, including Optical Character Recognition (OCR), Visual Question Answering (VQA), and advanced geometric reasoning. However, these models fail to perform well on…

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