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Vision-Language Models (VLMs) excel at complex visual tasks such as VQA and chart understanding, yet recent work suggests they struggle with simple perceptual tests. We present an evaluation of vision-language models' capacity for nonlocal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Shmuel Berman , Jia Deng

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have demonstrated strong capabilities in aligning visual and textual modalities, enabling a wide range of applications in multimodal understanding and generation. While they excel in zero-shot and transfer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Hao Dong , Moru Liu , Jian Liang , Eleni Chatzi , Olga Fink

Video question grounding (VideoQG) requires models to answer the questions and simultaneously infer the relevant video segments to support the answers. However, existing VideoQG methods usually suffer from spurious cross-modal correlations,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Weixing Chen , Yang Liu , Binglin Chen , Jiandong Su , Yongsen Zheng , Liang Lin

Human language is grounded on multimodal knowledge including visual knowledge like colors, sizes, and shapes. However, current large-scale pre-trained language models rely on text-only self-supervised training with massive text data, which…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Weizhi Wang , Li Dong , Hao Cheng , Haoyu Song , Xiaodong Liu , Xifeng Yan , Jianfeng Gao , Furu Wei

Recent advancements in Vision Language Models (VLMs) have demonstrated remarkable promise in generating visually grounded responses. However, their application in the medical domain is hindered by unique challenges. For instance, most VLMs…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-19 Lingxiao Luo , Bingda Tang , Xuanzhong Chen , Rong Han , Ting Chen

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

This work investigates a fundamental question: Do Video-Language Models (VidLMs) robustly account for video content, temporal sequence, and motion? Our investigation shows that, surprisingly, they often do not. We introduce REVEAL{}, a…

A key aspect of VQA models that are interpretable is their ability to ground their answers to relevant regions in the image. Current approaches with this capability rely on supervised learning and human annotated groundings to train…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-02 Yundong Zhang , Juan Carlos Niebles , Alvaro Soto

Video Question Answering (VideoQA) represents a crucial intersection between video understanding and language processing, requiring both discriminative unimodal comprehension and sophisticated cross-modal interaction for accurate inference.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Ting Yu , Kunhao Fu , Shuhui Wang , Qingming Huang , Jun Yu

Cause-and-effect reasoning in video is a significant challenge for Vision-Language Models (VLMs), as it requires going beyond surface-level perception to a deeper understanding of causal mechanisms. However, existing benchmarks rarely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Mingfang Zhang , Jingjing Pan , Ashutosh Kumar , Rajat Saini , Mustafa Erdogan , Hsuan-Kung Yang , Caixin Kang , Yifei Huang , Yoichi Sato , Quan Kong

Vision and language understanding has emerged as a subject undergoing intense study in Artificial Intelligence. Among many tasks in this line of research, visual question answering (VQA) has been one of the most successful ones, where the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-05 Yunseok Jang , Yale Song , Youngjae Yu , Youngjin Kim , Gunhee Kim

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

With growing interest in recent years, medical visual question answering (Med-VQA) has rapidly evolved, with multimodal large language models (MLLMs) emerging as an alternative to classical model architectures. Specifically, their ability…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-07 Sergio Tascon-Morales , Pablo Márquez-Neila , Raphael Sznitman

Recently, large multi-modal models (LMMs) have emerged with the capacity to perform vision tasks such as captioning and visual question answering (VQA) with unprecedented accuracy. Applications such as helping the blind or visually impaired…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Julian Martin Eisenschlos , Hernán Maina , Guido Ivetta , Luciana Benotti

With advances in multimodal research and deep learning, Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have emerged as a powerful paradigm for a wide range of multimodal tasks. As a core problem in vision-language research, Visual Question…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Quanxing Xu , Ling Zhou , Xian Zhong , Xiaohua Huang , Rubing Huang , Chia-Wen Lin

Stimulated by the sophisticated reasoning capabilities of recent Large Language Models (LLMs), a variety of strategies for bridging video modality have been devised. A prominent strategy involves Video Language Models (VideoLMs), which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-28 Wonkyun Kim , Changin Choi , Wonseok Lee , Wonjong Rhee

We propose a novel framework for open-ended video question answering that enhances reasoning depth and robustness in complex real-world scenarios, as benchmarked on the CVRR-ES dataset. Existing Video-Large Multimodal Models (Video-LMMs)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Jun Xie , Zhaoran Zhao , Xiongjun Guan , Yingjian Zhu , Hongzhu Yi , Xinming Wang , Feng Chen , Zhepeng Wang

Recent advancements in Large Video Language Models (LVLMs) have highlighted their potential for multi-modal understanding, yet evaluating their factual grounding in videos remains a critical unsolved challenge. To address this gap, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Meng Cao , Pengfei Hu , Yingyao Wang , Jihao Gu , Haoran Tang , Haoze Zhao , Chen Wang , Jiahua Dong , Wangbo Yu , Ge Zhang , Jun Song , Xiang Li , Bo Zheng , Ian Reid , Xiaodan Liang

Video temporal grounding (VTG) is a critical task in video understanding and a key capability for extending video large language models (Vid-LLMs) to broader applications. However, existing Vid-LLMs rely on uniform frame sampling to extract…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Rong Fan , Kaiyan Xiao , Minghao Zhu , Liuyi Wang , Kai Dai , Zhao Yang

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) achieve strong results on multimodal tasks such as visual question answering, yet they can still fail even when the correct visual evidence is present. In this work, we systematically investigate whether these…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Zhining Liu , Ziyi Chen , Hui Liu , Chen Luo , Xianfeng Tang , Suhang Wang , Joy Zeng , Zhenwei Dai , Zhan Shi , Tianxin Wei , Benoit Dumoulin , Hanghang Tong