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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

Recently, large language models have shown remarkable reasoning capabilities through long-chain reasoning before responding. However, how to extend this capability to visual reasoning tasks remains an open challenge. Existing multimodal…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Caijun Jia , Nan Xu , Jingxuan Wei , Qingli Wang , Lei Wang , Bihui Yu , Junnan Zhu

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

The rise of Visual-Language Models (LVLMs) has unlocked new possibilities for seamlessly integrating visual and textual information. However, their ability to interpret cartographic maps remains largely unexplored. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Huy Quang Ung , Guillaume Habault , Yasutaka Nishimura , Hao Niu , Roberto Legaspi , Tomoki Oya , Ryoichi Kojima , Masato Taya , Chihiro Ono , Atsunori Minamikawa , Yan Liu

Recent multimodal LLMs have shown promise in chart-based visual question answering, but their performance declines sharply on unannotated charts-those requiring precise visual interpretation rather than relying on textual shortcuts. To…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Rachneet Kaur , Nishan Srishankar , Zhen Zeng , Sumitra Ganesh , Manuela Veloso

Visual Question and Answering (VQA) problems are attracting increasing interest from multiple research disciplines. Solving VQA problems requires techniques from both computer vision for understanding the visual contents of a presented…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-04-07 Ilija Ilievski , Shuicheng Yan , Jiashi Feng

We investigate the problem of cross-dataset adaptation for visual question answering (Visual QA). Our goal is to train a Visual QA model on a source dataset but apply it to another target one. Analogous to domain adaptation for visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-12 Wei-Lun Chao , Hexiang Hu , Fei Sha

The quest for algorithms that enable cognitive abilities is an important part of machine learning. A common trait in many recently investigated cognitive-like tasks is that they take into account different data modalities, such as visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-15 Idan Schwartz , Alexander G. Schwing , Tamir Hazan

This paper proposes to improve visual question answering (VQA) with structured representations of both scene contents and questions. A key challenge in VQA is to require joint reasoning over the visual and text domains. The predominant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-31 Damien Teney , Lingqiao Liu , Anton van den Hengel

Understanding and reasoning over academic handwritten notes remains a challenge in document AI, particularly for mathematical equations, diagrams, and scientific notations. Existing visual question answering (VQA) benchmarks focus on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Aniket Pal , Sanket Biswas , Alloy Das , Ayush Lodh , Priyanka Banerjee , Soumitri Chattopadhyay , Dimosthenis Karatzas , Josep Llados , C. V. Jawahar

Visual Question Answering (VQA) is a challenging problem that requires to process multimodal input. Answer-Set Programming (ASP) has shown great potential in this regard to add interpretability and explainability to modular VQA…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-02-14 Jakob Johannes Bauer , Thomas Eiter , Nelson Higuera Ruiz , Johannes Oetsch

Visual language such as charts and plots is ubiquitous in the human world. Comprehending plots and charts requires strong reasoning skills. Prior state-of-the-art (SOTA) models require at least tens of thousands of training examples and…

Question Answering (QA) systems are becoming the inspiring model for the future of search engines. While recently, underlying datasets for QA systems have been promoted from unstructured datasets to structured datasets with highly…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2016-02-17 Saeedeh Shekarpour , Denis Lukovnikov , Ashwini Jaya Kumar , Kemele Endris , Kuldeep Singh , Harsh Thakkar , Christoph Lange

Chart understanding presents a critical test to the reasoning capabilities of Vision-Language Models (VLMs). Prior approaches face critical limitations: some rely on external tools, making them brittle and constrained by a predefined…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Bohao Tang , Yan Ma , Fei Zhang , Jiadi Su , Ethan Chern , Zhulin Hu , Zhixin Wang , Pengfei Liu , Ya Zhang

Chart interpretation is crucial for visual data analysis, but accurately extracting information from charts poses significant challenges for automated models. This study investigates the fine-tuning of DEPLOT, a modality conversion module…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-09 Archita Srivastava , Abhas Kumar , Rajesh Kumar , Prabhakar Srinivasan

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

Data visualization serves as a critical means for presenting data and mining its valuable insights. The task of chart summarization, through natural language processing techniques, facilitates in-depth data analysis of charts. However,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-26 Mengsha Liu , Daoyuan Chen , Yaliang Li , Guian Fang , Ying Shen

The financial domain frequently deals with large numbers of long documents that are essential for daily operations. Significant effort is put towards automating financial data analysis. However, a persistent challenge, not limited to the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Viet Dac Lai , Michael Krumdick , Charles Lovering , Varshini Reddy , Craig Schmidt , Chris Tanner

Recently, Visual Question Answering (VQA) has emerged as one of the most significant tasks in multimodal learning as it requires understanding both visual and textual modalities. Existing methods mainly rely on extracting image and question…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-23 Pan Lu , Lei Ji , Wei Zhang , Nan Duan , Ming Zhou , Jianyong Wang

Despite the improvements in perception accuracies brought about via deep learning, developing systems combining accurate visual perception with the ability to reason over the visual percepts remains extremely challenging. A particular…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-22 Monika Sharma , Shikha Gupta , Arindam Chowdhury , Lovekesh Vig