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Despite recent advances in large language models (LLMs), most QA benchmarks are still confined to single-paragraph or single-document settings, failing to capture the complexity of real-world information-seeking tasks. Practical QA often…

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Multimodal LLMs are increasingly deployed as perceptual backbones for autonomous agents in 3D environments, from robotics to virtual worlds. These applications require agents to perceive rapid state changes, attribute actions to the correct…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Yunzhe Wang , Runhui Xu , Kexin Zheng , Tianyi Zhang , Jayavibhav Niranjan Kogundi , Soham Hans , Volkan Ustun

Human intelligence requires correctness and robustness, with the former being foundational for the latter. In video understanding, correctness ensures the accurate interpretation of visual content, and robustness maintains consistent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Yuanhan Zhang , Yunice Chew , Yuhao Dong , Aria Leo , Bo Hu , Ziwei Liu

Automatically understanding funny moments (i.e., the moments that make people laugh) when watching comedy is challenging, as they relate to various features, such as body language, dialogues and culture. In this paper, we propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-10 Zhi-Song Liu , Robin Courant , Vicky Kalogeiton

We present M$^3$-VQA, a novel knowledge-based Visual Question Answering (VQA) benchmark, to enhance the evaluation of multimodal large language models (MLLMs) in fine-grained multimodal entity understanding and complex multi-hop reasoning.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Jiatong Ma , Longteng Guo , Yuchen Liu , Zijia Zhao , Dongze Hao , Xuanxu Lin , Jing Liu

While existing video benchmarks largely consider specialized downstream tasks like retrieval or question-answering (QA), contemporary multimodal AI systems must be capable of well-rounded common-sense reasoning akin to human visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Kate Sanders , Benjamin Van Durme

Video question answering aims at answering a question about the video content by reasoning the alignment semantics within them. However, since relying heavily on human instructions, i.e., annotations or priors, current contrastive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-19 Hao Li , Peng Jin , Zesen Cheng , Songyang Zhang , Kai Chen , Zhennan Wang , Chang Liu , Jie Chen

Conventional VQA approaches primarily rely on question-answer (Q&A) pairs to learn the spatio-temporal dynamics of video content. However, most existing annotations are event-centric, which restricts the model's ability to capture the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Ju-Young Oh

A large part of human communication relies on nonverbal cues such as facial expressions, eye contact, and body language. Unlike language or sign language, such nonverbal communication lacks formal rules, requiring complex reasoning based on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Shintaro Ozaki , Kazuki Hayashi , Miyu Oba , Yusuke Sakai , Hidetaka Kamigaito , Taro Watanabe

Scaling Visual Question Answering (VQA) to the open-domain and multi-hop nature of web searches, requires fundamental advances in visual representation learning, knowledge aggregation, and language generation. In this work, we introduce…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Yingshan Chang , Mridu Narang , Hisami Suzuki , Guihong Cao , Jianfeng Gao , Yonatan Bisk

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…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-06 Theodoti Stoikou , Maria Lymperaiou , Giorgos Stamou

Humans gather information by engaging in conversations involving a series of interconnected questions and answers. For machines to assist in information gathering, it is therefore essential to enable them to answer conversational questions.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-04-02 Siva Reddy , Danqi Chen , Christopher D. Manning

Significant progress has been made in the field of video question answering (VideoQA) thanks to deep learning and large-scale pretraining. Despite the presence of sophisticated model structures and powerful video-text foundation models,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Haopeng Li , Tom Drummond , Mingming Gong , Mohammed Bennamoun , Qiuhong Ke

Videos are unique in their integration of temporal elements, including camera, scene, action, and attribute, along with their dynamic relationships over time. However, existing benchmarks for video understanding often treat these properties…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Fanheng Kong , Jingyuan Zhang , Hongzhi Zhang , Shi Feng , Daling Wang , Linhao Yu , Xingguang Ji , Yu Tian , Victoria W. , Fuzheng Zhang

In the rapidly evolving domain of video understanding, Video Question Answering (VideoQA) remains a focal point. However, existing datasets exhibit gaps in temporal and spatial granularity, which consequently limits the capabilities of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Wei Dai , Alan Luo , Zane Durante , Debadutta Dash , Arnold Milstein , Kevin Schulman , Ehsan Adeli , Li Fei-Fei

Visual question answering (or VQA) is a new and exciting problem that combines natural language processing and computer vision techniques. We present a survey of the various datasets and models that have been used to tackle this task. The…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-05-12 Akshay Kumar Gupta

We introduce FigureQA, a visual reasoning corpus of over one million question-answer pairs grounded in over 100,000 images. The images are synthetic, scientific-style figures from five classes: line plots, dot-line plots, vertical and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-26 Samira Ebrahimi Kahou , Vincent Michalski , Adam Atkinson , Akos Kadar , Adam Trischler , Yoshua Bengio

Multipanel images, commonly seen as web screenshots, posters, etc., pervade our daily lives. These images, characterized by their composition of multiple subfigures in distinct layouts, effectively convey information to people. Toward…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-28 Yue Fan , Jing Gu , Kaiwen Zhou , Qianqi Yan , Shan Jiang , Ching-Chen Kuo , Xinze Guan , Xin Eric Wang

We introduce ReXTime, a benchmark designed to rigorously test AI models' ability to perform temporal reasoning within video events. Specifically, ReXTime focuses on reasoning across time, i.e. human-like understanding when the question and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-03 Jr-Jen Chen , Yu-Chien Liao , Hsi-Che Lin , Yu-Chu Yu , Yen-Chun Chen , Yu-Chiang Frank Wang

Accurate and efficient Video Quality Assessment (VQA) has long been a key research challenge. Current mainstream VQA methods typically improve performance by pretraining on large-scale classification datasets (e.g., ImageNet, Kinetics-400),…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Yachun Mi , Yu Li , Yanting Li , Chen Hui , Tong Zhang , Zhixuan Li , Chenyue Song , Wei Yang Bryan Lim , Shaohui Liu