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Visual Question Answering (VQA) models take an image and a natural-language question as input and infer the answer to the question. Recently, VQA systems in medical imaging have gained popularity thanks to potential advantages such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Sergio Tascon-Morales , Pablo Márquez-Neila , Raphael Sznitman

Visual Question Answering (VQA) benchmarks have largely emphasized perception-based tasks that can be solved from visual content alone. In contrast, many real-world scenarios require external knowledge that is not directly observable in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Basel Shbita , Pengyuan Li , Anna Lisa Gentile

We present a novel multimodal interpretable VQA model that can answer the question more accurately and generate diverse explanations. Although researchers have proposed several methods that can generate human-readable and fine-grained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-09 He Zhu , Ren Togo , Takahiro Ogawa , Miki Haseyama

Visual question answering (VQA) is a task of answering a visual question that is a pair of question and image. Some visual questions are ambiguous and some are clear, and it may be appropriate to change the ambiguity of questions from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-02 Kento Terao , Toru Tamaki , Bisser Raytchev , Kazufumi Kaneda , Shun'ichi Satoh

The current success of modern visual reasoning systems is arguably attributed to cross-modality attention mechanisms. However, in deliberative reasoning such as in VQA, attention is unconstrained at each step, and thus may serve as a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-26 Thao Minh Le , Vuong Le , Sunil Gupta , Svetha Venkatesh , Truyen Tran

In multi-modal reasoning tasks, such as visual question answering (VQA), there have been many modeling and training paradigms tested. Previous models propose different methods for the vision and language tasks, but which ones perform the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-23 Karan Samel , Zelin Zhao , Binghong Chen , Kuan Wang , Robin Luo , Le Song

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

Methodologies for training visual question answering (VQA) models assume the availability of datasets with human-annotated \textit{Image-Question-Answer} (I-Q-A) triplets. This has led to heavy reliance on datasets and a lack of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-31 Pratyay Banerjee , Tejas Gokhale , Yezhou Yang , Chitta Baral

Medical Visual Question Answering (VQA) is a multi-modal challenging task widely considered by research communities of the computer vision and natural language processing. Since most current medical VQA models focus on visual content,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-08 Haiwei Pan , Shuning He , Kejia Zhang , Bo Qu , Chunling Chen , Kun Shi

In visual question answering (VQA) context, users often pose ambiguous questions to visual language models (VLMs) due to varying expression habits. Existing research addresses such ambiguities primarily by rephrasing questions. These…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Pu Jian , Donglei Yu , Wen Yang , Shuo Ren , Jiajun Zhang

On the way towards general Visual Question Answering (VQA) systems that are able to answer arbitrary questions, the need arises for evaluation beyond single-metric leaderboards for specific datasets. To this end, we propose a browser-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Dirk Väth , Pascal Tilli , Ngoc Thang Vu

We consider the problem of Visual Question Answering (VQA). Given an image and a free-form, open-ended, question, expressed in natural language, the goal of VQA system is to provide accurate answer to this question with respect to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-07 Tanzila Rahman , Shih-Han Chou , Leonid Sigal , Giuseppe Carenini

Medical visual question answering (VQA) aims to answer clinically relevant questions regarding input medical images. This technique has the potential to improve the efficiency of medical professionals while relieving the burden on the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Xinyue Hu , Lin Gu , Kazuma Kobayashi , Qiyuan An , Qingyu Chen , Zhiyong Lu , Chang Su , Tatsuya Harada , Yingying Zhu

We address a question answering task on real-world images that is set up as a Visual Turing Test. By combining latest advances in image representation and natural language processing, we propose Neural-Image-QA, an end-to-end formulation to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-10-02 Mateusz Malinowski , Marcus Rohrbach , Mario Fritz

Technology and the fruition of cultural heritage are becoming increasingly more entwined, especially with the advent of smart audio guides, virtual and augmented reality, and interactive installations. Machine learning and computer vision…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-30 Pietro Bongini , Federico Becattini , Andrew D. Bagdanov , Alberto Del Bimbo

The complex compositional structure of language makes problems at the intersection of vision and language challenging. But language also provides a strong prior that can result in good superficial performance, without the underlying models…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-04-20 Peng Zhang , Yash Goyal , Douglas Summers-Stay , Dhruv Batra , Devi Parikh

In recent years, multi-modal transformers have shown significant progress in Vision-Language tasks, such as Visual Question Answering (VQA), outperforming previous architectures by a considerable margin. This improvement in VQA is often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-12 Ankur Sikarwar , Gabriel Kreiman

A chief goal of artificial intelligence is to build machines that think like people. Yet it has been argued that deep neural network architectures fail to accomplish this. Researchers have asserted these models' limitations in the domains…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-09 Luca M. Schulze Buschoff , Elif Akata , Matthias Bethge , Eric Schulz

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

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