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When building artificial intelligence systems that can reason and answer questions about visual data, we need diagnostic tests to analyze our progress and discover shortcomings. Existing benchmarks for visual question answering can help,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-12-22 Justin Johnson , Bharath Hariharan , Laurens van der Maaten , Li Fei-Fei , C. Lawrence Zitnick , Ross Girshick

The ability to reason about temporal and causal events from videos lies at the core of human intelligence. Most video reasoning benchmarks, however, focus on pattern recognition from complex visual and language input, instead of on causal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-10 Kexin Yi , Chuang Gan , Yunzhu Li , Pushmeet Kohli , Jiajun Wu , Antonio Torralba , Joshua B. Tenenbaum

Explanation and high-order reasoning capabilities are crucial for real-world visual question answering with diverse levels of inference complexity (e.g., what is the dog that is near the girl playing with?) and important for users to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-24 Qingxing Cao , Bailin Li , Xiaodan Liang , Liang Lin

Visual reasoning, the capability to interpret visual input in response to implicit text query through multi-step reasoning, remains a challenge for deep learning models due to the lack of relevant benchmarks. Previous work in visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Yiqing Shen , Chenjia Li , Chenxiao Fan , Mathias Unberath

Recent advances in vision-language reasoning underscore the importance of thinking with images, where models actively ground their reasoning in visual evidence. Yet, prevailing frameworks treat visual actions as optional tools, boosting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Changpeng Wang , Haozhe Wang , Xi Chen , Junhan Liu , Taofeng Xue , Chong Peng , Donglian Qi , Fangzhen Lin , Yunfeng Yan

Visual Dialog is a multimodal task of answering a sequence of questions grounded in an image, using the conversation history as context. It entails challenges in vision, language, reasoning, and grounding. However, studying these subtasks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-20 Satwik Kottur , José M. F. Moura , Devi Parikh , Dhruv Batra , Marcus Rohrbach

A critical aspect of human visual perception is the ability to parse visual scenes into individual objects and further into object parts, forming part-whole hierarchies. Such composite structures could induce a rich set of semantic concepts…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-10 Yining Hong , Li Yi , Joshua B. Tenenbaum , Antonio Torralba , Chuang Gan

We present a novel computational model, "SAViR-T", for the family of visual reasoning problems embodied in the Raven's Progressive Matrices (RPM). Our model considers explicit spatial semantics of visual elements within each image in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-23 Pritish Sahu , Kalliopi Basioti , Vladimir Pavlovic

Reasoning about visual relationships is central to how humans interpret the visual world. This task remains challenging for current deep learning algorithms since it requires addressing three key technical problems jointly: 1) identifying…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-14 Xiaojian Ma , Weili Nie , Zhiding Yu , Huaizu Jiang , Chaowei Xiao , Yuke Zhu , Song-Chun Zhu , Anima Anandkumar

Human understanding of video dynamics relies on forming structured representations of entities, actions, and temporal relations before engaging in abstract reasoning. In contrast, existing Video-LLMs apply unstructured chain-of-thought…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Zinuo Li , Yongxin Guo , Jun Liu , Jiawei Zhan , Xi Jiang , Chengjie Wang , Mohammed Bennamoun , Farid Boussaid , Feng Zheng , Qiuhong Ke

Despite rapid advancements, current text-to-image (T2I) models predominantly rely on a single-step generation paradigm, which struggles with complex semantics and faces diminishing returns from parameter scaling. While recent multi-step…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Hanbo Cheng , Limin Lin , Ruo Zhang , Yicheng Pan , Jun Du

Existing visual reasoning datasets such as Visual Question Answering (VQA), often suffer from biases conditioned on the question, image or answer distributions. The recently proposed CLEVR dataset addresses these limitations and requires…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-23 Ning Xie , Farley Lai , Derek Doran , Asim Kadav

Rapid progress in video models has largely focused on visual quality, leaving their reasoning capabilities underexplored. Video reasoning grounds intelligence in spatiotemporally consistent visual environments that go beyond what text can…

Multi-modal large language models (MLLMs) have achieved remarkable capabilities by integrating visual perception with language understanding, enabling applications such as image-grounded dialogue, visual question answering, and scientific…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Tianyi Bai , Zengjie Hu , Fupeng Sun , Jiantao Qiu , Yizhen Jiang , Guangxin He , Bohan Zeng , Conghui He , Binhang Yuan , Wentao Zhang

Dramatic progress has been witnessed in basic vision tasks involving low-level perception, such as object recognition, detection, and tracking. Unfortunately, there is still an enormous performance gap between artificial vision systems and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-08 Chi Zhang , Feng Gao , Baoxiong Jia , Yixin Zhu , Song-Chun Zhu

Despite recent advancements in Multi-modal Large Language Models (MLLMs) on diverse understanding tasks, these models struggle to solve problems which require extensive multi-step reasoning. This is primarily due to the progressive dilution…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Byungwoo Jeon , Yoonwoo Jeong , Hyunseok Lee , Minsu Cho , Jinwoo Shin

Despite rapid progress, multimodal reasoning still lacks a systematic approach to synthesize large-scale vision-centric datasets beyond visual math. We introduce a framework able to synthesize vision-centric problems spanning diverse levels…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-18 David Acuna , Chao-Han Huck Yang , Yuntian Deng , Jaehun Jung , Ximing Lu , Prithviraj Ammanabrolu , Hyunwoo Kim , Yuan-Hong Liao , Yejin Choi

Most existing research on visual question answering (VQA) is limited to information explicitly present in an image or a video. In this paper, we take visual understanding to a higher level where systems are challenged to answer questions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-14 Shailaja Keyur Sampat , Akshay Kumar , Yezhou Yang , Chitta Baral

Effective autonomous driving hinges on robust reasoning across perception, prediction, planning, and behavior. However, conventional end-to-end models fail to generalize in complex scenarios due to the lack of structured reasoning. While…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Muxi Diao , Lele Yang , Hongbo Yin , Zhexu Wang , Yejie Wang , Daxin Tian , Kongming Liang , Zhanyu Ma

Multimodal latent-space reasoning aims to replace explicit thinking with images by performing visual reasoning directly in a compact latent space. However, existing approaches largely rely on visual supervision and produce latent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Tianrun Xu , Yue Sun , Qixun Wang , Jingyi Lu , Yuan Wang , Tianren Zhang , Longteng Guo , Fengyun Rao , Jing Lyu , Feng Chen , Jing Liu