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Visual Question Answering (VQA) task has showcased a new stage of interaction between language and vision, two of the most pivotal components of artificial intelligence. However, it has mostly focused on generating short and repetitive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-09-22 Andrew Shin , Yoshitaka Ushiku , Tatsuya Harada

Methods for teaching machines to answer visual questions have made significant progress in recent years, but current methods still lack important human capabilities, including integrating new visual classes and concepts in a modular manner,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-27 Ben-Zion Vatashsky , Shimon Ullman

We present a novel mechanism to embed prior knowledge in a model for visual question answering. The open-set nature of the task is at odds with the ubiquitous approach of training of a fixed classifier. We show how to exploit additional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-05 Violetta Shevchenko , Damien Teney , Anthony Dick , Anton van den Hengel

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

Question answering (QA) systems are designed to answer natural language questions. Visual QA (VQA) and Spoken QA (SQA) systems extend the textual QA system to accept visual and spoken input respectively. This work aims to create a system…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-30 Nimrod Shabtay , Zvi Kons , Avihu Dekel , Hagai Aronowitz , Ron Hoory , Assaf Arbelle

Visual Question Answering (VQA) is a core task for evaluating the capabilities of Vision-Language Models (VLMs). Existing VQA benchmarks primarily feature clear and unambiguous image-question pairs, whereas real-world scenarios often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Jihyoung Jang , Hyounghun Kim

Medical vision-language models (VLMs) combine computer vision (CV) and natural language processing (NLP) to analyze visual and textual medical data. Our paper reviews recent advancements in developing VLMs specialized for healthcare,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Iryna Hartsock , Ghulam Rasool

Scientific visual question answering poses significant challenges for vision-language models due to the complexity of scientific figures and their multimodal context. Traditional approaches treat the figure and accompanying text (e.g.,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Belal Shoer , Yova Kementchedjhieva

Visual question answering is an important task in both natural language and vision understanding. However, in most of the public visual question answering datasets such as VQA, CLEVR, the questions are human generated that specific to the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-08-08 Bingning Wang , Feiyang Lv , Ting Yao , Yiming Yuan , Jin Ma , Yu Luo , Haijin Liang

Performance on the most commonly used Visual Question Answering dataset (VQA v2) is starting to approach human accuracy. However, in interacting with state-of-the-art VQA models, it is clear that the problem is far from being solved. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-07 Sasha Sheng , Amanpreet Singh , Vedanuj Goswami , Jose Alberto Lopez Magana , Wojciech Galuba , Devi Parikh , Douwe Kiela

Most recent state-of-the-art Visual Question Answering (VQA) systems are opaque black boxes that are only trained to fit the answer distribution given the question and visual content. As a result, these systems frequently take shortcuts,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-30 Jialin Wu , Liyan Chen , Raymond J. Mooney

Learning to answer visual questions is a challenging task since the multi-modal inputs are within two feature spaces. Moreover, reasoning in visual question answering requires the model to understand both image and question, and align them…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-27 Peixi Xiong , Yilin Shen , Hongxia Jin

VQA (Visual Question Answering) combines Natural Language Processing (NLP) with image understanding to answer questions about a given image. It has enormous potential for the development of medical diagnostic AI systems. Such a system can…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-30 Gaurav Parajuli

Large-scale pre-trained models (PTMs) show great zero-shot capabilities. In this paper, we study how to leverage them for zero-shot visual question answering (VQA). Our approach is motivated by a few observations. First, VQA questions often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-25 Rui Cao , Jing Jiang

Visual question answering (Visual QA) has attracted a lot of attention lately, seen essentially as a form of (visual) Turing test that artificial intelligence should strive to achieve. In this paper, we study a crucial component of this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-06-12 Wei-Lun Chao , Hexiang Hu , Fei Sha

Visual question answering (VQA) models are designed to demonstrate visual-textual reasoning capabilities. However, their real-world applicability is hindered by a lack of comprehensive benchmark datasets. Existing domain generalization…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-03 Suraj Jyothi Unni , Raha Moraffah , Huan Liu

Medical multiple-choice question answering (MCQA) is particularly difficult. Questions may describe patient symptoms and ask for the correct diagnosis, which requires domain knowledge and complex reasoning. Standard language modeling…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Damien Sileo , Kanimozhi Uma , Marie-Francine Moens

Visual Question Answering (VQA) models employ attention mechanisms to discover image locations that are most relevant for answering a specific question. For this purpose, several multimodal fusion strategies have been proposed, ranging from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-26 Moshiur R Farazi , Salman H Khan , Nick Barnes

One of the key goals of artificial intelligence (AI) is the development of a multimodal system that facilitates communication with the visual world (image and video) using a natural language query. Earlier works on medical question…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Deepak Gupta , Dina Demner-Fushman

Visual Question Answering (VQA) is a challenging task that requires systems to provide accurate answers to questions based on image content. Current VQA models struggle with complex questions due to limitations in capturing and integrating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Peiyuan Chen , Zecheng Zhang , Yiping Dong , Li Zhou , Han Wang