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Video Question Answering (VideoQA) is a task that requires a model to analyze and understand both the visual content given by the input video and the textual part given by the question, and the interaction between them in order to produce a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-25 Alex Falcon , Oswald Lanz , Giuseppe Serra

Answering questions in the context of videos can be helpful in video indexing, video retrieval systems, video summarization, learning management systems and surveillance video analysis. Although there exists a large body of work on visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-09 Pranay Gupta , Manish Gupta

To address computational and memory limitations of Large Multimodal Models in the Video Question-Answering task, several recent methods extract textual representations per frame (e.g., by captioning) and feed them to a Large Language Model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Andreas Goulas , Vasileios Mezaris , Ioannis Patras

We propose a novel video understanding task by fusing knowledge-based and video question answering. First, we introduce KnowIT VQA, a video dataset with 24,282 human-generated question-answer pairs about a popular sitcom. The dataset…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-25 Noa Garcia , Mayu Otani , Chenhui Chu , Yuta Nakashima

Recent developments in modeling language and vision have been successfully applied to image question answering. It is both crucial and natural to extend this research direction to the video domain for video question answering (VideoQA).…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-07 Zhou Yu , Dejing Xu , Jun Yu , Ting Yu , Zhou Zhao , Yueting Zhuang , Dacheng Tao

Video Question Answering (VideoQA) has emerged as a challenging frontier in the field of multimedia processing, requiring intricate interactions between visual and textual modalities. Simply uniformly sampling frames or indiscriminately…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-24 Jianxin Liang , Xiaojun Meng , Yueqian Wang , Chang Liu , Qun Liu , Dongyan Zhao

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

Inspired by recent trends in vision and language learning, we explore applications of attention mechanisms for visio-lingual fusion within an application to story-based video understanding. Like other video-based QA tasks, video story…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-28 Björn Bebensee , Byoung-Tak Zhang

Existing methods for video question answering (VideoQA) often suffer from spurious correlations between different modalities, leading to a failure in identifying the dominant visual evidence and the intended question. Moreover, these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-02 Yushen Wei , Yang Liu , Hong Yan , Guanbin Li , Liang Lin

Video Question Answering (Video QA) is a challenging video understanding task that requires models to comprehend entire videos, identify the most relevant information based on contextual cues from a given question, and reason accurately to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Roberto Amoroso , Gengyuan Zhang , Rajat Koner , Lorenzo Baraldi , Rita Cucchiara , Volker Tresp

Despite the number of currently available datasets on video question answering, there still remains a need for a dataset involving multi-step and non-factoid answers. Moreover, relying on video transcripts remains an under-explored topic.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-06-02 Anthony Colas , Seokhwan Kim , Franck Dernoncourt , Siddhesh Gupte , Daisy Zhe Wang , Doo Soon Kim

Visual Question Answering (VQA) concerns providing answers to Natural Language questions about images. Several deep neural network approaches have been proposed to model the task in an end-to-end fashion. Whereas the task is grounded in…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-02-03 Mehrdad Alizadeh , Barbara Di Eugenio

While existing video benchmarks largely consider specialized downstream tasks like retrieval or question-answering (QA), contemporary multimodal AI systems must be capable of well-rounded common-sense reasoning akin to human visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Kate Sanders , Benjamin Van Durme

While vision-language models (VLMs) excel at tasks involving single images or short videos, they still struggle with Long Video Question Answering (LVQA) due to its demand for complex multi-step temporal reasoning. Vanilla approaches, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Sahil Shah , S P Sharan , Harsh Goel , Minkyu Choi , Mustafa Munir , Manvik Pasula , Radu Marculescu , Sandeep Chinchali

Cause-and-effect reasoning in video is a significant challenge for Vision-Language Models (VLMs), as it requires going beyond surface-level perception to a deeper understanding of causal mechanisms. However, existing benchmarks rarely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Mingfang Zhang , Jingjing Pan , Ashutosh Kumar , Rajat Saini , Mustafa Erdogan , Hsuan-Kung Yang , Caixin Kang , Yifei Huang , Yoichi Sato , Quan Kong

Large multimodal models (LMMs) have recently demonstrated remarkable performance in video question answering (VideoQA), yet reasoning over video remains challenging due to high inference cost and diluted information. Keyframe selection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Minchan Kwon , Hyounguk Shon , Junmo Kim

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

Visual Question Answering (VQA) is a challenging task that has received increasing attention from both the computer vision and the natural language processing communities. Given an image and a question in natural language, it requires…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-07-21 Qi Wu , Damien Teney , Peng Wang , Chunhua Shen , Anthony Dick , Anton van den Hengel

Visual Question Answering (VQA) presents a unique challenge as it requires the ability to understand and encode the multi-modal inputs - in terms of image processing and natural language processing. The algorithm further needs to learn how…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-26 Supriya Pandhre , Shagun Sodhani

Video Question Answering (VideoQA) has made significant strides by leveraging multimodal learning to align visual and textual modalities. However, current benchmarks overwhelmingly focus on questions answerable through explicit visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Sirnam Swetha , Rohit Gupta , Parth Parag Kulkarni , David G Shatwell , Jeffrey A Chan Santiago , Nyle Siddiqui , Joseph Fioresi , Mubarak Shah