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Visual Question Answering is a multi-modal task that aims to measure high-level visual understanding. Contemporary VQA models are restrictive in the sense that answers are obtained via classification over a limited vocabulary (in the case…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-18 Radhika Dua , Sai Srinivas Kancheti , Vineeth N Balasubramanian

As vision-language models (VLMs) are deployed globally, their ability to understand culturally situated knowledge becomes essential. Yet, existing evaluations largely assess static recall or isolated visual grounding, leaving unanswered…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Bryan Chen Zhengyu Tan , Zheng Weihua , Zhengyuan Liu , Nancy F. Chen , Hwaran Lee , Kenny Tsu Wei Choo , Roy Ka-Wei Lee

Pre-trained language-vision models have shown remarkable performance on the visual question answering (VQA) task. However, most pre-trained models are trained by only considering monolingual learning, especially the resource-rich language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-13 Humair Raj Khan , Deepak Gupta , Asif Ekbal

We introduce MAIA (Multimodal AI Assessment), a native-Italian benchmark designed for fine-grained investigation of the reasoning abilities of visual language models on videos. MAIA differs from other available video benchmarks for its…

We introduce INDOTABVQA, a benchmark for evaluating cross-lingual Table Visual Question Answering (VQA) on real-world document images in Bahasa Indonesia. The dataset comprises 1,593 document images across three visual styles (bordered,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Somraj Gautam , Anathapindika Dravichi , Gaurav Harit

Social media imagery provides a low-latency source of situational information during natural and human-induced disasters, enabling rapid damage assessment and response. While Visual Question Answering (VQA) has shown strong performance in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Aisha Al-Mohannadi , Ayisha Firoz , Yin Yang , Muhammad Imran , Ferda Ofli

We introduce VULCA-Bench, a multicultural art-critique benchmark for evaluating Vision-Language Models' (VLMs) cultural understanding beyond surface-level visual perception. Existing VLM benchmarks predominantly measure L1-L2 capabilities…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Haorui Yu , Diji Yang , Hang He , Fengrui Zhang , Qiufeng Yi

Current visual question answering (VQA) tasks mainly consider answering human-annotated questions for natural images. However, aside from natural images, abstract diagrams with semantic richness are still understudied in visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Pan Lu , Liang Qiu , Jiaqi Chen , Tony Xia , Yizhou Zhao , Wei Zhang , Zhou Yu , Xiaodan Liang , Song-Chun Zhu

Visual question answering (VQA) is an interesting learning setting for evaluating the abilities and shortcomings of current systems for image understanding. Many of the recently proposed VQA systems include attention or memory mechanisms…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-24 Allan Jabri , Armand Joulin , Laurens van der Maaten

Recent advances in Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have demonstrated impressive capabilities in perception and reasoning. However, the ability to perform causal inference -- a core aspect of human cognition -- remains underexplored,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Keummin Ka , Junhyeong Park , Jaehyun Jeon , Youngjae Yu

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

Multi-modal tasks involving vision and language in deep learning continue to rise in popularity and are leading to the development of newer models that can generalize beyond the extent of their training data. The current models lack…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-21 Ethan Shen , Scotty Singh , Bhavesh Kumar

Understanding signboard text in natural scenes is essential for real-world applications of Visual Question Answering (VQA), yet remains underexplored, particularly in low-resource languages. We introduce ViSignVQA, the first large-scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Hieu Minh Nguyen , Tam Le-Thanh Dang , Kiet Van Nguyen

Multimodal vision-language models (VLMs) have made substantial progress in various tasks that require a combined understanding of visual and textual content, particularly in cultural understanding tasks, with the emergence of new cultural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Burak Satar , Zhixin Ma , Patrick A. Irawan , Wilfried A. Mulyawan , Jing Jiang , Ee-Peng Lim , Chong-Wah Ngo

Coral reefs are vital yet vulnerable ecosystems that require continuous monitoring to support conservation. While coral reef images provide essential information in coral monitoring, interpreting such images remains challenging due to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Hongyong Han , Wei Wang , Gaowei Zhang , Mingjie Li , Yi Wang

Evaluating and Rethinking the current landscape of Large Multimodal Models (LMMs), we observe that widely-used visual-language projection approaches (e.g., Q-former or MLP) focus on the alignment of image-text descriptions yet ignore the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-27 Yunxin Li , Xinyu Chen , Baotian Hu , Haoyuan Shi , Min Zhang

Visual Question Answering (VQA) is the task of taking as input an image and a free-form natural language question about the image, and producing an accurate answer. In this work we view VQA as a "feature extraction" module to extract image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-09-02 Xiao Lin , Devi Parikh

Visual question answering (VQA) has been gaining a lot of traction in the machine learning community in the recent years due to the challenges posed in understanding information coming from multiple modalities (i.e., images, language). In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-11 Muralikrishnna G. Sethuraman , Ali Payani , Faramarz Fekri , J. Clayton Kerce

We introduce MMCRICBENCH-3K, a benchmark for Visual Question Answering (VQA) on cricket scorecards, designed to evaluate large vision-language models (LVLMs) on complex numerical and cross-lingual reasoning over semi-structured tabular…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Somraj Gautam , Abhirama Subramanyam Penamakuri , Abhishek Bhandari , Gaurav Harit

Recent advancements in Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) have significantly enhanced their ability to integrate visual and linguistic information, achieving near-human proficiency in tasks like object recognition, captioning, and visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-14 Zhikai Wang , Jiashuo Sun , Wenqi Zhang , Zhiqiang Hu , Xin Li , Fan Wang , Deli Zhao