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Though beneficial for encouraging the Visual Question Answering (VQA) models to discover the underlying knowledge by exploiting the input-output correlation beyond image and text contexts, the existing knowledge VQA datasets are mostly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Qingxing Cao , Bailin Li , Xiaodan Liang , Keze Wang , Liang Lin

When reading a document, glancing at the spatial layout of a document is an initial step to understand it roughly. Traditional document layout analysis (DLA) methods, however, offer only a superficial parsing of documents, focusing on basic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-05 Yufan Chen , Ruiping Liu , Junwei Zheng , Di Wen , Kunyu Peng , Jiaming Zhang , Rainer Stiefelhagen

Chart comprehension presents significant challenges for machine learning models due to the diverse and intricate shapes of charts. Existing multimodal methods often overlook these visual features or fail to integrate them effectively for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-01 Hanwen Zheng , Sijia Wang , Chris Thomas , Lifu Huang

To contribute to automating the medical vision-language model, we propose a novel Chest-Xray Difference Visual Question Answering (VQA) task. Given a pair of main and reference images, this task attempts to answer several questions on both…

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Document Visual Question Answering (Document VQA) faces significant challenges when processing long documents in low-resource environments due to context limitations and insufficient training data. This paper presents AdaDocVQA, a unified…

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Visual question answering has been an exciting challenge in the field of natural language understanding, as it requires deep learning models to exchange information from both vision and language domains. In this project, we aim to tackle a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Tai Vu , Robert Yang

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have garnered significant attention for their strong visual-semantic understanding. Most existing chart benchmarks evaluate MLLMs' ability to parse information from charts to answer questions.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-10 Xiangnan Chen , Yuancheng Fang , Qian Xiao , Juncheng Li , Jun Lin , Siliang Tang , Yi Yang , Yueting Zhuang

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

PDFs are the second-most used document type on the internet (after HTML). Yet, existing QA datasets commonly start from text sources or only address specific domains. In this paper, we present pdfQA, a multi-domain 2K human-annotated…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Tobias Schimanski , Imene Kolli , Yu Fan , Ario Saeid Vaghefi , Jingwei Ni , Elliott Ash , Markus Leippold

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

Deep Learning has managed to push boundaries in a wide variety of tasks. One area of interest is to tackle problems in reasoning and understanding, with an aim to emulate human intelligence. In this work, we describe a deep learning model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-03 Revanth Reddy , Rahul Ramesh , Ameet Deshpande , Mitesh M. Khapra

Visual Question Answering (VQA) is a recent problem in computer vision and natural language processing that has garnered a large amount of interest from the deep learning, computer vision, and natural language processing communities. In…

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Query auto-completion (QAC) has been widely studied in the context of web search, yet remains underexplored for in-document search, which we term DocQAC. DocQAC aims to enhance search productivity within long documents by helping users…

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Visual Commonsense Reasoning (VCR), deemed as one challenging extension of the Visual Question Answering (VQA), endeavors to pursue a more high-level visual comprehension. It is composed of two indispensable processes: question answering…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-26 Zhenyang Li , Yangyang Guo , Kejie Wang , Yinwei Wei , Liqiang Nie , Mohan Kankanhalli

Whilst fact verification has attracted substantial interest in the natural language processing community, verifying misinforming statements against data visualizations such as charts has so far been overlooked. Charts are commonly used in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-19 Mubashara Akhtar , Nikesh Subedi , Vivek Gupta , Sahar Tahmasebi , Oana Cocarascu , Elena Simperl

Answering questions related to the legal domain is a complex task, primarily due to the intricate nature and diverse range of legal document systems. Providing an accurate answer to a legal query typically necessitates specialized knowledge…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-18 Abdelrahman Abdallah , Bhawna Piryani , Adam Jatowt

Text-based visual question answering (VQA) requires to read and understand text in an image to correctly answer a given question. However, most current methods simply add optical character recognition (OCR) tokens extracted from the image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Zan-Xia Jin , Heran Wu , Chun Yang , Fang Zhou , Jingyan Qin , Lei Xiao , Xu-Cheng Yin

The recent advancements in Vision Language Models (VLMs) have demonstrated progress toward true intelligence requiring robust reasoning capabilities. Beyond pattern recognition, linguistic reasoning must integrate with visual comprehension,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Yunfei Bai , Amit Dhanda , Shekhar Jain

Visual Question Answering (VQA) is a multi-discipline research task. To produce the right answer, it requires an understanding of the visual content of images, the natural language questions, as well as commonsense reasoning over the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Yao Zhang , Haokun Chen , Ahmed Frikha , Yezi Yang , Denis Krompass , Gengyuan Zhang , Jindong Gu , Volker Tresp

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have shown impressive capabilities in image understanding and generation. However, current benchmarks fail to accurately evaluate the chart comprehension of MLLMs due to limited chart types and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Zhengzhuo Xu , Sinan Du , Yiyan Qi , Chengjin Xu , Chun Yuan , Jian Guo