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Vision-language (VL) models have shown transformative potential across various critical domains due to their capability to comprehend multi-modal information. However, their performance frequently degrades under distribution shifts, making…

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Visual Language Models (VLMs) have achieved remarkable progress, yet their reliability under small, meaning-preserving input changes remains poorly understood. We present the first large-scale, systematic study of VLM robustness to benign…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Amir Rosenfeld , Neta Glazer , Ethan Fetaya

Vision-language models, which integrate computer vision and natural language processing capabilities, have demonstrated significant advancements in tasks such as image captioning and visual question and answering. However, similar to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Ashwin Ramesh Babu , Sajad Mousavi , Vineet Gundecha , Sahand Ghorbanpour , Avisek Naug , Antonio Guillen , Ricardo Luna Gutierrez , Soumyendu Sarkar

To leverage the full potential of Large Language Models (LLMs) it is crucial to have some information on their answers' uncertainty. This means that the model has to be able to quantify how certain it is in the correctness of a given…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-07 Mirko Borszukovszki , Ivo Pascal de Jong , Matias Valdenegro-Toro

Visual Question Answering (VQA) has emerged as a Visual Turing Test to validate the reasoning ability of AI agents. The pivot to existing VQA models is the joint embedding that is learned by combining the visual features from an image and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-22 Moshiur R. Farazi , Salman H. Khan , Nick Barnes

Visual Question Answering (VQA) is an evolving research field aimed at enabling machines to answer questions about visual content by integrating image and language processing techniques such as feature extraction, object detection, text…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Ngoc Dung Huynh , Mohamed Reda Bouadjenek , Sunil Aryal , Imran Razzak , Hakim Hacid

Joint visual and language modeling on large-scale datasets has recently shown good progress in multi-modal tasks when compared to single modal learning. However, robustness of these approaches against real-world perturbations has not been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Madeline C. Schiappa , Shruti Vyas , Hamid Palangi , Yogesh S. Rawat , Vibhav Vineet

Visual Question Answering (VQA), as the representative multimodal task, serves as a key benchmark for evaluating the reasoning capabilities of Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs). However, existing evaluations largely rely on static…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Quanxing Xu , Yuhao Tian , Ling Zhou , Xian Zhong , Xiaohua Huang , Rubing Huang , Chia-Wen Lin

Medical Vision-Language Models (MVLMs) have achieved par excellence generalization in medical image analysis, yet their performance under noisy, corrupted conditions remains largely untested. Clinical imaging is inherently susceptible to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Raza Imam , Rufael Marew , Mohammad Yaqub

Chart question answering (CQA) is a crucial area of Visual Language Understanding. However, the robustness and consistency of current Visual Language Models (VLMs) in this field remain under-explored. This paper evaluates state-of-the-art…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-07 Srija Mukhopadhyay , Adnan Qidwai , Aparna Garimella , Pritika Ramu , Vivek Gupta , Dan Roth

The outstanding performance of Large Multimodal Models (LMMs) has made them widely applied in vision-related tasks. However, various corruptions in the real world mean that images will not be as ideal as in simulations, presenting…

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In visual question answering (VQA), an algorithm must answer text-based questions about images. While multiple datasets for VQA have been created since late 2014, they all have flaws in both their content and the way algorithms are…

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Visual question answering (VQA) models respond to open-ended natural language questions about images. While VQA is an increasingly popular area of research, it is unclear to what extent current VQA architectures learn key semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-25 Gabriel Grand , Aron Szanto , Yoon Kim , Alexander Rush

Visual question answering (VQA) is a task that combines both the techniques of computer vision and natural language processing. It requires models to answer a text-based question according to the information contained in a visual. In recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-04 Yeyun Zou , Qiyu Xie

The Visual Question Answering (VQA) task combines challenges for processing data with both Visual and Linguistic processing, to answer basic `common sense' questions about given images. Given an image and a question in natural language, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-24 Yash Srivastava , Vaishnav Murali , Shiv Ram Dubey , Snehasis Mukherjee

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

Visual Grounding (VG) methods in Visual Question Answering (VQA) attempt to improve VQA performance by strengthening a model's reliance on question-relevant visual information. The presence of such relevant information in the visual input…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-16 Daniel Reich , Tanja Schultz

Visual-Language-Action (VLA) models report impressive success rates on robotic manipulation benchmarks, yet these results may mask fundamental weaknesses in robustness. We perform a systematic vulnerability analysis by introducing…

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have great potential in medical tasks, like Visual Question Answering (VQA), where they could act as interactive assistants for both patients and clinicians. Yet their robustness to distribution shifts on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Kim-Celine Kahl , Selen Erkan , Jeremias Traub , Carsten T. Lüth , Klaus Maier-Hein , Lena Maier-Hein , Paul F. Jaeger

Vision State Space Models (VSSMs), a novel architecture that combines the strengths of recurrent neural networks and latent variable models, have demonstrated remarkable performance in visual perception tasks by efficiently capturing…

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