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Visual Question Answering (VQA) in the medical domain presents a unique, interdisciplinary challenge, combining fields such as Computer Vision, Natural Language Processing, and Knowledge Representation. Despite its importance, research in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-25 Abhishek Narayanan , Rushabh Musthyala , Rahul Sankar , Anirudh Prasad Nistala , Pranav Singh , Jacopo Cirrone

While deep learning techniques have an increasing impact on many technical fields, gathering sufficient amounts of training data is a challenging problem in remote sensing. In particular, this holds for applications involving data from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-05 Michael Schmitt , Lloyd Haydn Hughes , Xiao Xiang Zhu

Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imaging is capable of observing objects in nearly all weather and illumination conditions and has become an indispensable means of information acquisition for analysis and recognition of objects and scenes.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-03 Jie Zhou , Yongxiang Liu , Li Liu , Weijie Li , Bowen Peng , Yafei Song , Gangyao Kuang , Xiang Li

Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) provides all-weather, high-resolution imaging capabilities, but its unique imaging mechanism often requires expert interpretation, limiting its widespread applicability. Translating SAR images into more easily…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Xinyu Bai , Feng Xu

Visual question answering (VQA) demands simultaneous comprehension of both the image visual content and natural language questions. In some cases, the reasoning needs the help of common sense or general knowledge which usually appear in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-30 Hui Li , Peng Wang , Chunhua Shen , Anton van den Hengel

Driven by the complementary nature of optical and synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images, SAR-optical image matching has garnered significant interest. Most existing SAR-optical image matching methods aim to capture effective matching…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Jingze Gai , Changchun Li

Vision-language models, while effective in general domains and showing strong performance in diverse multi-modal applications like visual question-answering (VQA), struggle to maintain the same level of effectiveness in more specialized…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-26 Cuong Nhat Ha , Shima Asaadi , Sanjeev Kumar Karn , Oladimeji Farri , Tobias Heimann , Thomas Runkler

Single-source remote sensing object detection using optical or SAR images struggles in complex environments. Optical images offer rich textural details but are often affected by low-light, cloud-obscured, or low-resolution conditions,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Chao Wang , Wei Lu , Xiang Li , Jian Yang , Lei Luo

Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) plays a vital role in remote sensing due to its ability to capture high-resolution images regardless of weather conditions or daylight. However, to transform the raw SAR signals into interpretable imagery,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-07 Khalil Al Salahat , Mohamad El Moussawi , Ali J. Ghandour

Remote Sensing Image-Text Retrieval (RSITR) is pivotal for knowledge services and data mining in the remote sensing (RS) domain. Considering the multi-scale representations in image content and text vocabulary can enable the models to learn…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-30 Rui Yang , Shuang Wang , Yingping Han , Yuanheng Li , Dong Zhao , Dou Quan , Yanhe Guo , Licheng Jiao

The Visual Question Answering (VQA) system offers a user-friendly interface and enables human-computer interaction. However, VQA models commonly face the challenge of language bias, resulting from the learned superficial correlation between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-02 Zhenghang Yuan , Lichao Mou , Xiao Xiang Zhu

Existing work on VQA explores data augmentation to achieve better generalization by perturbing the images in the dataset or modifying the existing questions and answers. While these methods exhibit good performance, the diversity of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-01 Paola Cascante-Bonilla , Hui Wu , Letao Wang , Rogerio Feris , Vicente Ordonez

Answering visual questions need acquire daily common knowledge and model the semantic connection among different parts in images, which is too difficult for VQA systems to learn from images with the only supervision from answers. Meanwhile,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-05-23 Jialin Wu , Zeyuan Hu , Raymond J. Mooney

Visual Question Answering (VQA) is a complex semantic task requiring both natural language processing and visual recognition. In this paper, we explore whether VQA is solvable when images are captured in a sub-Nyquist compressive paradigm.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-12 Li-Chi Huang , Kuldeep Kulkarni , Anik Jha , Suhas Lohit , Suren Jayasuriya , Pavan Turaga

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

Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) image change detection is a critical yet challenging task in the field of remote sensing image analysis. The task is non-trivial due to the following challenges: Firstly, intrinsic speckle noise of SAR images…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-19 Yunhao Gao , Feng Gao , Junyu Dong , Qian Du , Heng-Chao Li

In this paper, we propose a novel concept of cross-learning, in order to improve SAR images by learning from the camera images. We use a multi-level abstraction approach to materialise knowledge transfer between the two modalities. We also…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-13 Shahzad Gishkori , David Wright , Liam Daniel , Marina Gashinova , Bernard Mulgrew

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

Image fusion in Remote Sensing (RS) has been a consistent demand due to its ability to turn raw images of different resolutions, sources, and modalities into accurate, complete, and spatio-temporally coherent images. It greatly facilitates…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-18 Hessah Albanwan , Rongjun Qin , Yang Tang

As a result of several successful applications in computer vision and image processing, sparse representation (SR) has attracted significant attention in multi-sensor image fusion. Unlike the traditional multiscale transforms (MSTs) that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-02-14 Qiang Zhang , Yi Liu , Rick S. Blum , Jungong Han , Dacheng Tao