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A number of visual question answering approaches have been proposed recently, aiming at understanding the visual scenes by answering the natural language questions. While the image question answering has drawn significant attention, video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-04 Hongyang Xue , Zhou Zhao , Deng Cai

Answerer in Questioner's Mind (AQM) is an information-theoretic framework that has been recently proposed for task-oriented dialog systems. AQM benefits from asking a question that would maximize the information gain when it is asked.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-02-25 Sang-Woo Lee , Tong Gao , Sohee Yang , Jaejun Yoo , Jung-Woo Ha

Visual Question Answering (VQA) has been a popular task that combines vision and language, with numerous relevant implementations in literature. Even though there are some attempts that approach explainability and robustness issues in VQA…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-06 Theodoti Stoikou , Maria Lymperaiou , Giorgos Stamou

Vision-Language (VL) models have gained significant research focus, enabling remarkable advances in multimodal reasoning. These architectures typically comprise a vision encoder, a Large Language Model (LLM), and a projection module that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-09 Roy Ganz , Yair Kittenplon , Aviad Aberdam , Elad Ben Avraham , Oren Nuriel , Shai Mazor , Ron Litman

Bridging the semantic gap between image and question is an important step to improve the accuracy of the Visual Question Answering (VQA) task. However, most of the existing VQA methods focus on attention mechanisms or visual relations for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-20 Binh X. Nguyen , Tuong Do , Huy Tran , Erman Tjiputra , Quang D. Tran , Anh Nguyen

Visual Question Answering (VQA) is a core task for evaluating the capabilities of Vision-Language Models (VLMs). Existing VQA benchmarks primarily feature clear and unambiguous image-question pairs, whereas real-world scenarios often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Jihyoung Jang , Hyounghun Kim

We introduce GQA, a new dataset for real-world visual reasoning and compositional question answering, seeking to address key shortcomings of previous VQA datasets. We have developed a strong and robust question engine that leverages scene…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-07-12 Drew A. Hudson , Christopher D. Manning

Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) has emerged to address the knowledge-intensive visual question answering (VQA) task. Current methods mainly employ separate retrieval and generation modules to acquire external knowledge and generate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Xinwei Long , Zhiyuan Ma , Ermo Hua , Kaiyan Zhang , Biqing Qi , Bowen Zhou

Multimodal question answering tasks can be used as proxy tasks to study systems that can perceive and reason about the world. Answering questions about different types of input modalities stresses different aspects of reasoning such as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-22 Haytham M. Fayek , Justin Johnson

Knowledge-based Visual Question Answering (KVQA) requires external knowledge beyond the visible content to answer questions about an image. This ability is challenging but indispensable to achieve general VQA. One limitation of existing…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-11-04 Jing Yu , Zihao Zhu , Yujing Wang , Weifeng Zhang , Yue Hu , Jianlong Tan

Question answering (QA) systems are designed to answer natural language questions. Visual QA (VQA) and Spoken QA (SQA) systems extend the textual QA system to accept visual and spoken input respectively. This work aims to create a system…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-30 Nimrod Shabtay , Zvi Kons , Avihu Dekel , Hagai Aronowitz , Ron Hoory , Assaf Arbelle

In traditional Visual Question Generation (VQG), most images have multiple concepts (e.g. objects and categories) for which a question could be generated, but models are trained to mimic an arbitrary choice of concept as given in their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-27 Nihir Vedd , Zixu Wang , Marek Rei , Yishu Miao , Lucia Specia

In the rapidly evolving domain of video understanding, Video Question Answering (VideoQA) remains a focal point. However, existing datasets exhibit gaps in temporal and spatial granularity, which consequently limits the capabilities of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Wei Dai , Alan Luo , Zane Durante , Debadutta Dash , Arnold Milstein , Kevin Schulman , Ehsan Adeli , Li Fei-Fei

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

Visual Question Answering (VQA) emerges as one of the most fascinating topics in computer vision recently. Many state of the art methods naively use holistic visual features with language features into a Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-11-19 Aiwen Jiang , Fang Wang , Fatih Porikli , Yi Li

Visual understanding requires interpreting both natural scenes and the textual information that appears within them, motivating tasks such as Visual Question Answering (VQA). However, current VQA benchmarks overlook scenarios with visually…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Jianing An , Luyang Jiang , Jie Luo , Wenjun Wu , Lei Huang

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

Visual Question Answering (VQA) is a challenging task that requires systems to provide accurate answers to questions based on image content. Current VQA models struggle with complex questions due to limitations in capturing and integrating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Peiyuan Chen , Zecheng Zhang , Yiping Dong , Li Zhou , Han Wang

We consider the problem of Visual Question Answering (VQA). Given an image and a free-form, open-ended, question, expressed in natural language, the goal of VQA system is to provide accurate answer to this question with respect to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-07 Tanzila Rahman , Shih-Han Chou , Leonid Sigal , Giuseppe Carenini

Document-based Visual Question Answering poses a challenging task between linguistic sense disambiguation and fine-grained multimodal retrieval. Although there has been encouraging progress in document-based question answering due to the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-20 Jieting Long , Zewei Shi , Penghao Jiang , Yidong Gan