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Understanding the contents of multimodal documents is essential to accurately extract relevant evidence and use it for reasoning. Existing document understanding models tend to generate answers with a single word or phrase directly,…

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Situational awareness applications rely heavily on real-time processing of visual and textual data to provide actionable insights. Vision language models (VLMs) have become essential tools for interpreting complex environments by connecting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Md Azim Khan , Aryya Gangopadhyay , Jianwu Wang , Robert F. Erbacher

Document understanding with multimodal large language models (MLLMs) requires not only accurate answers but also explicit, evidence-grounded reasoning, especially in high-stakes scenarios. However, current document MLLMs still fall short of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Yuchuan Wu , Minghan Zhuo , Teng Fu , Mengyang Zhao , Bin Li , Xiangyang Xue

Document Visual Question Answering (DocVQA) faces dual challenges in processing lengthy multimodal documents (text, images, tables) and performing cross-modal reasoning. Current document retrieval-augmented generation (DocRAG) methods…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Kuicai Dong , Yujing Chang , Shijie Huang , Yasheng Wang , Ruiming Tang , Yong Liu

Document visual question answering (DocVQA) pipelines that answer questions from documents have broad applications. Existing methods focus on handling single-page documents with multi-modal language models (MLMs), or rely on text-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-08 Jaemin Cho , Debanjan Mahata , Ozan Irsoy , Yujie He , Mohit Bansal

Visual Question Answering (VQA) requires reasoning across visual and textual modalities, yet Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) often lack integrated commonsense knowledge, limiting their robustness in real-world scenarios. To address…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Shuo Yang , Siwen Luo , Soyeon Caren Han , Eduard Hovy

In this paper, we propose a novel approach for solving the Visual Question Answering (VQA) task in autonomous driving by integrating Vision-Language Models (VLMs) with continual learning. In autonomous driving, VQA plays a vital role in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Yuxin Lin , Mengshi Qi , Liang Liu , Huadong Ma

In the realm of Sign Language Translation (SLT), reliance on costly gloss-annotated datasets has posed a significant barrier. Recent advancements in gloss-free SLT methods have shown promise, yet they often largely lag behind gloss-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Han Liang , Chengyu Huang , Yuecheng Xu , Cheng Tang , Weicai Ye , Juze Zhang , Xin Chen , Jingyi Yu , Lan Xu

Current universal segmentation methods demonstrate strong capabilities in pixel-level image and video understanding. However, they lack reasoning abilities and cannot be controlled via text instructions. In contrast, large vision-language…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-02 Tao Zhang , Xiangtai Li , Hao Fei , Haobo Yuan , Shengqiong Wu , Shunping Ji , Chen Change Loy , Shuicheng Yan

The Large Vision-Language Model (LVLM) has enhanced the performance of various downstream tasks in visual-language understanding. Most existing approaches encode images and videos into separate feature spaces, which are then fed as inputs…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-02 Bin Lin , Yang Ye , Bin Zhu , Jiaxi Cui , Munan Ning , Peng Jin , Li Yuan

Visual question answering (VQA) is the task of answering questions about an image. The task assumes an understanding of both the image and the question to provide a natural language answer. VQA has gained popularity in recent years due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Deepanway Ghosal , Navonil Majumder , Roy Ka-Wei Lee , Rada Mihalcea , Soujanya Poria

We address the task of evidence retrieval for long document question answering, which involves locating relevant paragraphs within a document to answer a question. We aim to assess the applicability of large language models (LLMs) in the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-23 Inderjeet Nair , Shwetha Somasundaram , Apoorv Saxena , Koustava Goswami

Recent advancements in Large Multimodal Models (LMMs) have greatly enhanced their proficiency in 2D visual understanding tasks, enabling them to effectively process and understand images and videos. However, the development of LMMs with 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Chenming Zhu , Tai Wang , Wenwei Zhang , Jiangmiao Pang , Xihui Liu

Recent advancements in Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities across diverse tasks, garnering significant attention in AI communities. However, their performance and reliability in specialized domains…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-30 Yang Nan , Huichi Zhou , Xiaodan Xing , Guang Yang

While Vision-language models (VLMs) have demonstrated remarkable performance across multi-modal tasks, their choice of vision encoders presents a fundamental weakness: their low-level features lack the robust structural and spatial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Brandon Huang , Hang Hua , Zhuoran Yu , Trevor Darrell , Rogerio Feris , Roei Herzig

Humans can robustly localize visual evidence and provide grounded answers even in noisy environments by identifying critical cues and then relating them to the full context in a bottom-up manner. Inspired by this, we propose DeepScan, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Yangfu Li , Hongjian Zhan , Jiawei Chen , Yuning Gong , Qi Liu , Yue Lu

Visual Question Answering (VQA) is the task of answering a question about an image and requires processing multimodal input and reasoning to obtain the answer. Modular solutions that use declarative representations within the reasoning…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Thomas Eiter , Jan Hadl , Nelson Higuera , Johannes Oetsch

Recent multimodal large language models (MLLMs) show great potential in natural image understanding. Yet, they perform well, mainly on reasoning in-view contents within the image frame. This paper presents the first study on out-of-view…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Qixiang Chen , Cheng Zhang , Chi-Wing Fu , Jingwen Ye , Jianfei Cai

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

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