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This survey reviews explainability methods for vision-based self-driving systems trained with behavior cloning. The concept of explainability has several facets and the need for explainability is strong in driving, a safety-critical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-20 Éloi Zablocki , Hédi Ben-Younes , Patrick Pérez , Matthieu Cord

Visual Question Answering (VQA) is a challenging task of predicting the answer to a question about the content of an image. Prior works directly evaluate the answering models by simply calculating the accuracy of predicted answers. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Kun Li , George Vosselman , Michael Ying Yang

Improving end-users' understanding of decisions made by autonomous vehicles (AVs) driven by artificial intelligence (AI) can improve utilization and acceptance of AVs. However, current explanation mechanisms primarily help AI researchers…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Somayeh Molaei , Lionel P. Robert , Nikola Banovic

Visual understanding requires interpreting both natural scenes and the textual information that appears within them, motivating tasks such as Visual Question Answering (VQA). However, current VQA benchmarks overlook scenarios with visually…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Jianing An , Luyang Jiang , Jie Luo , Wenjun Wu , Lei Huang

The automotive industry has witnessed an increasing level of development in the past decades; from manufacturing manually operated vehicles to manufacturing vehicles with a high level of automation. With the recent developments in…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-11-11 Daniel Omeiza , Helena Webb , Marina Jirotka , Lars Kunze

We study how vision-language models (VLMs) trained on web-scale data can be integrated into end-to-end driving systems to boost generalization and enable interactivity with human users. While recent approaches adapt VLMs to driving via…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-17 Chonghao Sima , Katrin Renz , Kashyap Chitta , Li Chen , Hanxue Zhang , Chengen Xie , Jens Beißwenger , Ping Luo , Andreas Geiger , Hongyang Li

Visual question answering (VQA) refers to the problem where, given an image and a natural language question about the image, a correct natural language answer has to be generated. A VQA model has to demonstrate both the visual understanding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Raihan Kabir , Naznin Haque , Md Saiful Islam , Marium-E-Jannat

In commentary driving, drivers verbalise their observations, assessments and intentions. By speaking out their thoughts, both learning and expert drivers are able to create a better understanding and awareness of their surroundings. In the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-10-24 Daniel Omeiza , Sule Anjomshoae , Helena Webb , Marina Jirotka , Lars Kunze

Autonomous driving increasingly relies on Visual Question Answering (VQA) to enable vehicles to understand complex surroundings by analyzing visual inputs and textual queries. Currently, a paramount concern for VQA in this domain is the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Yuliang Cai , Dongqiangzi Ye , Zitian Chen , Chongruo Wu

Large-scale Vision Language Models (LVLMs) exhibit advanced capabilities in tasks that require visual information, including object detection. These capabilities have promising applications in various industrial domains, such as autonomous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Haruki Sakajo , Hiroshi Takato , Hiroshi Tsutsui , Komei Soda , Hidetaka Kamigaito , Taro Watanabe

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Zhuohong Chen , Zhenxian Wu , Yunyao Yu , Hangrui Xu , Zirui Liao , Zhifang Liu , Xiangwen Deng , Pen Jiao , Haoqian Wang

Deep neural perception and control networks are likely to be a key component of self-driving vehicles. These models need to be explainable - they should provide easy-to-interpret rationales for their behavior - so that passengers, insurance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-03 Jinkyu Kim , John Canny

Autonomous vehicles often make complex decisions via machine learning-based predictive models applied to collected sensor data. While this combination of methods provides a foundation for real-time actions, self-driving behavior primarily…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-12 Shahin Atakishiyev , Mohammad Salameh , Randy Goebel

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

The potential to improve road safety, reduce human driving error, and promote environmental sustainability have enabled the field of autonomous driving to progress rapidly over recent decades. The performance of autonomous vehicles has…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-05-14 Sara Montese , Victor Gimenez-Abalos , Atia Cortés , Ulises Cortés , Sergio Alvarez-Napagao

There has been recent and growing interest in the development and deployment of autonomous vehicles, encouraged by the empirical successes of powerful artificial intelligence techniques (AI), especially in the applications of deep learning…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-05-29 Shahin Atakishiyev , Mohammad Salameh , Hengshuai Yao , Randy Goebel

Video Question Answering (VQA) is a recent emerging challenging task in the field of Computer Vision. Several visual information retrieval techniques like Video Captioning/Description and Video-guided Machine Translation have preceded the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-19 Devshree Patel , Ratnam Parikh , Yesha Shastri

Autonomous vehicles (AVs) are poised to redefine transportation by enhancing road safety, minimizing human error, and optimizing traffic efficiency. The success of AVs depends on their ability to interpret complex, dynamic environments…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Abolfazl Zarghani , Amirhossein Ebrahimi , Amir Malekesfandiari

Video Question Answering (VideoQA) aims to answer natural language questions based on the given video, with prior work primarily focusing on identifying the duration of relevant segments, referred to as explicit visual evidence. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Tieyuan Chen , Huabin Liu , Yi Wang , Chaofan Gan , Mingxi Lyu , Ziran Qin , Shijie Li , Liquan Shen , Junhui Hou , Zheng Wang , Weiyao Lin

We propose DocVXQA, a novel framework for visually self-explainable document question answering. The framework is designed not only to produce accurate answers to questions but also to learn visual heatmaps that highlight contextually…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Mohamed Ali Souibgui , Changkyu Choi , Andrey Barsky , Kangsoo Jung , Ernest Valveny , Dimosthenis Karatzas