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Visual Question Answering (VQA) has attracted attention from both computer vision and natural language processing communities. Most existing approaches adopt the pipeline of representing an image via pre-trained CNNs, and then using the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-30 Qing Li , Jianlong Fu , Dongfei Yu , Tao Mei , Jiebo Luo

Recently, deep learning methods have achieved state-of-the-art performance in many medical image segmentation tasks. Many of these are based on convolutional neural networks (CNNs). For such methods, the encoder is the key part for global…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-25 Hao Li , Dewei Hu , Han Liu , Jiacheng Wang , Ipek Oguz

Solving tough clinical questions that require both image and text understanding is still a major challenge in healthcare AI. In this work, we propose Q-FSRU, a new model that combines Frequency Spectrum Representation and Fusion (FSRU) with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Rakesh Thakur , Yusra Tariq , Rakesh Chandra Joshi

It is well known that most of the conventional video question answering (VideoQA) datasets consist of easy questions requiring simple reasoning processes. However, long videos inevitably contain complex and compositional semantic structures…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-20 Jihyeon Lee , Wooyoung Kang , Eun-Sol Kim

A trending paradigm for multiple-choice question answering (MCQA) is using a text-to-text framework. By unifying data in different tasks into a single text-to-text format, it trains a generative encoder-decoder model which is both powerful…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Zixian Huang , Ao Wu , Jiaying Zhou , Yu Gu , Yue Zhao , Gong Cheng

Convolutional blocks have played a crucial role in advancing medical image segmentation by excelling in dense prediction tasks. However, their inability to effectively capture long-range dependencies has limited their performance.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-17 Siddhartha Mallick , Aayushman Ghosh , Jayanta Paul , Jaya Sil

This paper presents a state-of-the-art model for visual question answering (VQA), which won the first place in the 2017 VQA Challenge. VQA is a task of significant importance for research in artificial intelligence, given its multimodal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-10 Damien Teney , Peter Anderson , Xiaodong He , Anton van den Hengel

In this paper, we consider the problem of solving semantic tasks such as `Visual Question Answering' (VQA), where one aims to answers related to an image and `Visual Question Generation' (VQG), where one aims to generate a natural question…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-23 Badri N. Patro , Vinay P. Namboodiri

An effective paradigm for building Automated Question Answering systems is the re-use of previously answered questions, e.g., for FAQs or forum applications. Given a database (DB) of question/answer (q/a) pairs, it is possible to answer a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Stefano Campese , Ivano Lauriola , Alessandro Moschitti

Problems at the intersection of vision and language are of significant importance both as challenging research questions and for the rich set of applications they enable. However, inherent structure in our world and bias in our language…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-16 Yash Goyal , Tejas Khot , Douglas Summers-Stay , Dhruv Batra , Devi Parikh

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

Visual question answering (VQA) is an interesting learning setting for evaluating the abilities and shortcomings of current systems for image understanding. Many of the recently proposed VQA systems include attention or memory mechanisms…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-24 Allan Jabri , Armand Joulin , Laurens van der Maaten

Differential medical VQA models compare multiple images to identify clinically meaningful changes and rely on vision encoders to capture fine-grained visual differences that reflect radiologists' comparative diagnostic workflows. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Denis Musinguzi , Caren Han , Prasenjit Mitra

Transformers have recently shown promise for medical image applications, leading to an increasing interest in developing such models for medical image registration. Recent advancements in designing registration Transformers have focused on…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-14 Junyu Chen , Yihao Liu , Yufan He , Yong Du

In the realm of multimodal tasks, Visual Question Answering (VQA) plays a crucial role by addressing natural language questions grounded in visual content. Knowledge-Based Visual Question Answering (KBVQA) advances this concept by adding…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Manas Jhalani , Annervaz K M , Pushpak Bhattacharyya

Knowledge-based visual question answering (QA) aims to answer a question which requires visually-grounded external knowledge beyond image content itself. Answering complex questions that require multi-hop reasoning under weak supervision is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-25 Yu-Jung Heo , Eun-Sol Kim , Woo Suk Choi , Byoung-Tak Zhang

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

Medical visual question answering (Med-VQA) aims to automate the prediction of correct answers for medical images and questions, thereby assisting physicians in reducing repetitive tasks and alleviating their workload. Existing approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-22 Tiancheng Gu , Kaicheng Yang , Dongnan Liu , Weidong Cai

Question categorization and expert retrieval methods have been crucial for information organization and accessibility in community question & answering (CQA) platforms. Research in this area, however, has dealt with only the text modality.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-05-28 Avikalp Srivastava , Hsin Wen Liu , Sumio Fujita

In this paper, inspired by the successes of visionlanguage pre-trained models and the benefits from training with adversarial attacks, we present a novel transformerbased cross-modal fusion modeling by incorporating the both notions for VQA…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-27 Ke-Han Lu , Bo-Han Fang , Kuan-Yu Chen