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In this paper, we propose a novel end-to-end trainable Video Question Answering (VideoQA) framework with three major components: 1) a new heterogeneous memory which can effectively learn global context information from appearance and motion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-10 Chenyou Fan , Xiaofan Zhang , Shu Zhang , Wensheng Wang , Chi Zhang , Heng Huang

This study explores innovative methods for improving Visual Question Answering (VQA) using Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), autoencoders, and attention mechanisms. Leveraging a balanced VQA dataset, we investigate three distinct…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-13 Panfeng Li , Qikai Yang , Xieming Geng , Wenjing Zhou , Zhicheng Ding , Yi Nian

Video Question Answering (VideoQA) models enhance understanding and interaction with audiovisual content, making it more accessible, searchable, and useful for a wide range of fields such as education, surveillance, entertainment, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Himanshu Patil , Geo Jolly , Ramana Raja Buddala , Ganesh Ramakrishnan , Rohit Saluja

Despite considerable recent progress in Visual Question Answering (VQA) models, inconsistent or contradictory answers continue to cast doubt on their true reasoning capabilities. However, most proposed methods use indirect strategies or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-17 Sergio Tascon-Morales , Pablo Márquez-Neila , Raphael Sznitman

Video-based Question Answering (Video QA) is a challenging task and becomes even more intricate when addressing Socially Intelligent Question Answering (SIQA). SIQA requires context understanding, temporal reasoning, and the integration of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Aviral Agrawal , Carlos Mateo Samudio Lezcano , Iqui Balam Heredia-Marin , Prabhdeep Singh Sethi

We present M$^3$-VQA, a novel knowledge-based Visual Question Answering (VQA) benchmark, to enhance the evaluation of multimodal large language models (MLLMs) in fine-grained multimodal entity understanding and complex multi-hop reasoning.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Jiatong Ma , Longteng Guo , Yuchen Liu , Zijia Zhao , Dongze Hao , Xuanxu Lin , Jing Liu

Video Question Answering (VideoQA) requires identifying sparse critical moments in long videos and reasoning about their causal relationships to answer semantically complex questions. While recent advances in multimodal learning have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Xinxin Dong , Baoyun Peng , Haokai Ma , Yufei Wang , Zixuan Dong , Fei Hu , Xiaodong Wang

In long-video understanding, conventional uniform frame sampling often fails to capture key visual evidence, leading to degraded performance and increased hallucinations. To address this, recent agentic thinking-with-videos paradigms have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Wenqi Liu , Yunxiao Wang , Shijie Ma , Meng Liu , Qile Su , Tianke Zhang , Haonan Fan , Changyi Liu , Kaiyu Jiang , Jiankang Chen , Kaiyu Tang , Bin Wen , Fan Yang , Tingting Gao , Han Li , Yinwei Wei , Xuemeng Song

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

Audio-Visual Question Answering (AVQA) is a complex multi-modal reasoning task, demanding intelligent systems to accurately respond to natural language queries based on audio-video input pairs. Nevertheless, prevalent AVQA approaches are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-06 Jie Ma , Min Hu , Pinghui Wang , Wangchun Sun , Lingyun Song , Hongbin Pei , Jun Liu , Youtian Du

Video Question Answering (VideoQA) demands models that jointly reason over spatial, temporal, and linguistic cues. However, the task's inherent complexity often requires multi-step reasoning that current large multimodal models (LMMs)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Jason Nguyen , Ameet Rao , Alexander Chang , Ishaan Kumar , Erin Tan

We consider the task of generating diverse and realistic videos guided by natural audio samples from a wide variety of semantic classes. For this task, the videos are required to be aligned both globally and temporally with the input audio:…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-29 Guy Yariv , Itai Gat , Sagie Benaim , Lior Wolf , Idan Schwartz , Yossi Adi

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

Visual question answering (VQA) is a challenging multi-modal task that requires not only the semantic understanding of both images and questions, but also the sound perception of a step-by-step reasoning process that would lead to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-06 Siwen Luo , Soyeon Caren Han , Kaiyuan Sun , Josiah Poon

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

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) excel at visual reasoning but still struggle with integrating external knowledge. Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) is a promising solution, but current methods remain inefficient and often fail to maintain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Gen Li , Peiyu Liu

Complex knowledge base question answering can be achieved by converting questions into sequences of predefined actions. However, there is a significant semantic and structural gap between natural language and action sequences, which makes…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-27 Yechun Tang , Xiaoxia Cheng , Weiming Lu

This paper proposes the first video-grounded entailment tree reasoning method for commonsense video question answering (VQA). Despite the remarkable progress of large visual-language models (VLMs), there are growing concerns that they learn…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Huabin Liu , Filip Ilievski , Cees G. M. Snoek

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…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Haoxuan Li , Wei Song , Aofan Liu , Peiwu Qin

Video question answering (VQA) is a multimodal task that requires the interpretation of a video to answer a given question. Existing VQA methods primarily utilize question and answer (Q&A) pairs to learn the spatio-temporal characteristics…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Ju-Young Oh , Ho-Joong Kim , Seong-Whan Lee