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Visual Question Answering (VQA) in its ideal form lets us study reasoning in the joint space of vision and language and serves as a proxy for the AI task of scene understanding. However, most VQA benchmarks to date are focused on questions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-05 Kenneth Marino , Mohammad Rastegari , Ali Farhadi , Roozbeh Mottaghi

Visual Question Answering (VQA) is a challenge task that combines natural language processing and computer vision techniques and gradually becomes a benchmark test task in multimodal large language models (MLLMs). The goal of our survey is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-27 Jiayi Kuang , Jingyou Xie , Haohao Luo , Ronghao Li , Zhe Xu , Xianfeng Cheng , Yinghui Li , Xika Lin , Ying Shen

Medical Visual Question Answering (MedVQA) presents a significant opportunity to enhance diagnostic accuracy and healthcare delivery by leveraging artificial intelligence to interpret and answer questions based on medical images. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Xiaoman Zhang , Chaoyi Wu , Ziheng Zhao , Weixiong Lin , Ya Zhang , Yanfeng Wang , Weidi Xie

Document Visual Question Answering (DocVQA) remains challenging for existing Vision-Language Models (VLMs), especially under complex reasoning and multi-step workflows. Current approaches struggle to decompose intricate questions into…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Aymen Lassoued , Mohamed Ali Souibgui , Yousri Kessentini

Visual Question Answering (VQA) is a novel problem domain where multi-modal inputs must be processed in order to solve the task given in the form of a natural language. As the solutions inherently require to combine visual and natural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-31 Mikyas T. Desta , Larry Chen , Tomasz Kornuta

Documents are fundamental to preserving and disseminating information, often incorporating complex layouts, tables, and charts that pose significant challenges for automatic document understanding (DU). While vision-language large models…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Negar Foroutan , Angelika Romanou , Matin Ansaripour , Julian Martin Eisenschlos , Karl Aberer , Rémi Lebret

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

Scientific literature is typically dense, requiring significant background knowledge and deep comprehension for effective engagement. We introduce SciDQA, a new dataset for reading comprehension that challenges LLMs for a deep understanding…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-11 Shruti Singh , Nandan Sarkar , Arman Cohan

Visual Question Answering (VQA) has attracted a lot of attention in both Computer Vision and Natural Language Processing communities, not least because it offers insight into the relationships between two important sources of information.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-09 Peng Wang , Qi Wu , Chunhua Shen , Anton van den Hengel , Anthony Dick

Medical Visual Question Answering (MedVQA) is a promising field for developing clinical decision support systems, yet progress is often limited by the available datasets, which can lack clinical complexity and visual diversity. To address…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Sushant Gautam , Michael A. Riegler , Pål Halvorsen

Existing synthetic datasets (FigureQA, DVQA) for reasoning over plots do not contain variability in data labels, real-valued data, or complex reasoning questions. Consequently, proposed models for these datasets do not fully address the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-04 Nitesh Methani , Pritha Ganguly , Mitesh M. Khapra , Pratyush Kumar

Understanding the contents of multimodal documents is essential to accurately extract relevant evidence and use it for reasoning. Existing document understanding models tend to generate answers with a single word or phrase directly,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-08-15 Jinxu Zhang

In this paper, we focus on the Audio-Visual Question Answering (AVQA) task, which aims to answer questions regarding different visual objects, sounds, and their associations in videos. The problem requires comprehensive multimodal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-06 Guangyao Li , Yake Wei , Yapeng Tian , Chenliang Xu , Ji-Rong Wen , Di Hu

Designing datasets for Visual Question Answering (VQA) is a difficult and complex task that requires NLP for parsing and computer vision for analysing the relevant aspects of the image for answering the question asked. Several benchmark…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-06 Madhuri Latha Madaka , Chakravarthy Bhagvati

Visual question answering (VQA) demands simultaneous comprehension of both the image visual content and natural language questions. In some cases, the reasoning needs the help of common sense or general knowledge which usually appear in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-30 Hui Li , Peng Wang , Chunhua Shen , Anton van den Hengel

Audio-Visual Question Answering (AVQA) is a challenging multimodal reasoning task requiring intelligent systems to answer natural language queries based on paired audio-video inputs accurately. However, existing AVQA approaches often suffer…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Jie Ma , Zhitao Gao , Qi Chai , Jun Liu , Pinghui Wang , Jing Tao , Zhou Su

Visual question answering requires a system to provide an accurate natural language answer given an image and a natural language question. However, it is widely recognized that previous generic VQA methods often exhibit a tendency to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Jie Ma , Pinghui Wang , Dechen Kong , Zewei Wang , Jun Liu , Hongbin Pei , Junzhou Zhao

The proliferation of multimodal Large Language Models has significantly advanced the ability to analyze and understand complex data inputs from different modalities. However, the processing of long documents remains under-explored, largely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Goeric Huybrechts , Srikanth Ronanki , Sai Muralidhar Jayanthi , Jack Fitzgerald , Srinivasan Veeravanallur

Recent advances in Visually-rich Document Understanding rely on large Vision-Language Models like Donut, which perform document-level Visual Question Answering without Optical Character Recognition. Despite their effectiveness, these models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Adnan Ben Mansour , Ayoub Karine , David Naccache

Document Visual Question Answering (Document VQA) must cope with documents that span dozens of pages, yet leading systems still concatenate every page or rely on very large vision-language models, both of which are memory-hungry.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Eric López , Artemis Llabrés , Ernest Valveny