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The advancement of Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) has driven significant progress in Visual Question Answering (VQA), evolving from Single to Multi Image VQA (MVQA). However, the increased number of images in MVQA inevitably…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Kang Zeng , Guojin Zhong , Jintao Cheng , Jin Yuan , Zhiyong Li

There are two main lines of research on visual question answering (VQA): compositional model with explicit multi-hop reasoning, and monolithic network with implicit reasoning in the latent feature space. The former excels in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Ruixue Tang , Chao Ma

Video Question Answering (VideoQA) aims to answer natural language questions based on the information observed in videos. Despite the recent success of Large Multimodal Models (LMMs) in image-language understanding and reasoning, they deal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-24 Haibo Wang , Chenghang Lai , Yixuan Sun , Weifeng Ge

Video Question Answering (VQA) inherently relies on multimodal reasoning, integrating visual, temporal, and linguistic cues to achieve a deeper understanding of video content. However, many existing methods rely on feeding frame-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Noriyuki Kugo , Xiang Li , Zixin Li , Ashish Gupta , Arpandeep Khatua , Nidhish Jain , Chaitanya Patel , Yuta Kyuragi , Yasunori Ishii , Masamoto Tanabiki , Kazuki Kozuka , Ehsan Adeli

Video-Question-Answering (VideoQA) comprises the capturing of complex visual relation changes over time, remaining a challenge even for advanced Video Language Models (VLM), i.a., because of the need to represent the visual content to a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Sofian Chaybouti , Walid Bousselham , Moritz Wolter , Hilde Kuehne

The ideal form of Visual Question Answering requires understanding, grounding and reasoning in the joint space of vision and language and serves as a proxy for the AI task of scene understanding. However, most existing VQA benchmarks are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Kang Chen , Xiangqian Wu

Despite rapid advancements in video generation models, aligning their outputs with complex user intent remains challenging. Existing test-time optimization methods are typically either computationally expensive or require white-box access…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Yiwen Song , Tomas Pfister , Yale Song

Video text-based visual question answering (Video TextVQA) aims to answer questions by explicitly reading and reasoning about the text involved in a video. Most works in this field follow a frame-level framework which suffers from redundant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Yan Zhang , Gangyan Zeng , Daiqing Wu , Huawen Shen , Binbin Li , Yu Zhou , Can Ma , Xiaojun Bi

Visual Question Answering (VQA) has received a lot of attention over the past couple of years. A number of deep learning models have been proposed for this task. However, it has been shown that these models are heavily driven by superficial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-27 Aishwarya Agrawal , Aniruddha Kembhavi , Dhruv Batra , Devi Parikh

What does it take to design a machine that learns to answer natural questions about a video? A Video QA system must simultaneously understand language, represent visual content over space-time, and iteratively transform these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-14 Thao Minh Le , Vuong Le , Svetha Venkatesh , Truyen Tran

We propose Context-aware Video-text Alignment (CVA), a novel framework to address a significant challenge in video temporal grounding: achieving temporally sensitive video-text alignment that remains robust to irrelevant background context.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Sungho Moon , Seunghun Lee , Jiwan Seo , Sunghoon Im

We propose ReKV, a novel training-free approach that enables efficient streaming video question-answering (StreamingVQA), by seamlessly integrating with existing Video Large Language Models (Video-LLMs). Traditional VideoQA systems struggle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Shangzhe Di , Zhelun Yu , Guanghao Zhang , Haoyuan Li , Tao Zhong , Hao Cheng , Bolin Li , Wanggui He , Fangxun Shu , Hao Jiang

Recent research advances in Computer Vision and Natural Language Processing have introduced novel tasks that are paving the way for solving AI-complete problems. One of those tasks is called Visual Question Answering (VQA). A VQA system…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-30 Camila Kolling , Jônatas Wehrmann , Rodrigo C. Barros

Embodied Question Answering (EQA) is a recently proposed task, where an agent is placed in a rich 3D environment and must act based solely on its egocentric input to answer a given question. The desired outcome is that the agent learns to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-15 Cătălina Cangea , Eugene Belilovsky , Pietro Liò , Aaron Courville

We present LLoVi, a language-based framework for long-range video question-answering (LVQA). Unlike prior long-range video understanding methods, which are often costly and require specialized long-range video modeling design (e.g., memory…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-11 Ce Zhang , Taixi Lu , Md Mohaiminul Islam , Ziyang Wang , Shoubin Yu , Mohit Bansal , Gedas Bertasius

Despite the prosperity of the video language model, the current pursuit of comprehensive video reasoning is thwarted by the inherent spatio-temporal incompleteness within individual videos, resulting in hallucinations and inaccuracies. A…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Zhihao He , Tianyao He , Yun Xu , Tieyuan Chen , Huabin Liu , Chaofan Gan , Zuxuan Wu , Weiyao Lin

The development of multi-modal models has been rapidly advancing, with some demonstrating remarkable capabilities. However, annotating video-text pairs remains expensive and insufficient. Take video question answering (VideoQA) tasks as an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-07 Jin Chen , Kaijing Ma , Haojian Huang , Han Fang , Hao Sun , Mehdi Hosseinzadeh , Zhe Liu

Medical Visual Question Answering (MVQA) systems can interpret medical images in response to natural language queries. However, linguistic variability in question phrasing often undermines the consistency of these systems. To address this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-17 Yongpei Ma , Pengyu Wang , Adam Dunn , Usman Naseem , Jinman Kim

Vision and Language (VL) models offer an effective method for aligning representation spaces of images and text, leading to numerous applications such as cross-modal retrieval, visual question answering, captioning, and more. However, the…

Document Visual Question Answering (DocVQA) remains challenging for existing Vision-Language Models (VLMs), especially under complex reasoning and multi-step workflows. Current approaches struggle to decompose intricate questions into…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Aymen Lassoued , Mohamed Ali Souibgui , Yousri Kessentini