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The current success of modern visual reasoning systems is arguably attributed to cross-modality attention mechanisms. However, in deliberative reasoning such as in VQA, attention is unconstrained at each step, and thus may serve as a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-26 Thao Minh Le , Vuong Le , Sunil Gupta , Svetha Venkatesh , Truyen Tran

State-of-the-art vision-language models (VLMs) score impressively on video benchmarks yet stumble on basic visual reasoning tasks involving spatial relations, navigation, and object selection that a preschooler solves easily. We hypothesize…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Bishoy Galoaa , Xiangyu Bai , Sarah Ostadabbas

Video question answering (VideoQA) is a challenging task that requires integrating spatial, temporal, and semantic information to capture the complex dynamics of video sequences. Although recent advances have introduced various approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Zhongyu Yang , Zuhao Yang , Shuo Zhan , Tan Yue , Wei Pang , Yingfang Yuan

Visual Question Answering (VQA) is a fundamental multimodal task that requires models to jointly understand visual and textual information. Early VQA systems relied heavily on language biases, motivating subsequent work to emphasize visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Nguyen Anh Tuong , Phan Ba Duc , Nguyen Trung Quoc , Tran Dac Thinh , Dang Duy Lan , Nguyen Quoc Thinh , Tung Le

Text-based Visual Question Answering~(TextVQA) aims to produce correct answers for given questions about the images with multiple scene texts. In most cases, the texts naturally attach to the surface of the objects. Therefore, spatial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Hao Li , Jinfa Huang , Peng Jin , Guoli Song , Qi Wu , Jie Chen

Despite the great progress of Visual Question Answering (VQA), current VQA models heavily rely on the superficial correlation between the question type and its corresponding frequent answers (i.e., language priors) to make predictions,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Yike Wu , Yu Zhao , Shiwan Zhao , Ying Zhang , Xiaojie Yuan , Guoqing Zhao , Ning Jiang

While multimodal large language models (MLLMs) exhibit strong performance on single-video tasks (e.g., video question answering), their capability for spatiotemporal pattern reasoning across multiple videos remains a critical gap in pattern…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Nannan Zhu , Yonghao Dong , Teng Wang , Xueqian Li , Shengjun Deng , Yijia Wang , Zheng Hong , Tiantian Geng , Guo Niu , Hanyan Huang , Xiongfei Yao , Shuaiwei Jiao

We present CausalVLR (Causal Visual-Linguistic Reasoning), an open-source toolbox containing a rich set of state-of-the-art causal relation discovery and causal inference methods for various visual-linguistic reasoning tasks, such as VQA,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-14 Yang Liu , Weixing Chen , Guanbin Li , Liang Lin

We tackle the challenge of Visual Question Answering in multi-image setting for the ISVQA dataset. Traditional VQA tasks have focused on a single-image setting where the target answer is generated from a single image. Image set VQA,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-02 Abhinav Khattar , Aviral Joshi , Har Simrat Singh , Pulkit Goel , Rohit Prakash Barnwal

Visual Question Answering (VQA) attracts much attention from both industry and academia. As a multi-modality task, it is challenging since it requires not only visual and textual understanding, but also the ability to align cross-modality…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-27 Peixi Xiong , Quanzeng You , Pei Yu , Zicheng Liu , Ying Wu

Causal Video Question Answering (CVidQA) queries not only association or temporal relations but also causal relations in a video. Existing question synthesis methods pre-trained question generation (QG) systems on reading comprehension…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-04-10 Hung-Ting Su , Yulei Niu , Xudong Lin , Winston H. Hsu , Shih-Fu Chang

Performance on the most commonly used Visual Question Answering dataset (VQA v2) is starting to approach human accuracy. However, in interacting with state-of-the-art VQA models, it is clear that the problem is far from being solved. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-07 Sasha Sheng , Amanpreet Singh , Vedanuj Goswami , Jose Alberto Lopez Magana , Wojciech Galuba , Devi Parikh , Douwe Kiela

Physical video understanding requires more than naming an event correctly. A model can answer a question about pouring, sliding, or collision from textual regularities while still failing to localize the event in time or space. We introduce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Alibay Osmanli , Zixu Cheng , Shaogang Gong

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

We present a new dataset for Visual Question Answering (VQA) on document images called DocVQA. The dataset consists of 50,000 questions defined on 12,000+ document images. Detailed analysis of the dataset in comparison with similar datasets…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-06 Minesh Mathew , Dimosthenis Karatzas , C. V. Jawahar

Video Question Answering (VQA) is a recent emerging challenging task in the field of Computer Vision. Several visual information retrieval techniques like Video Captioning/Description and Video-guided Machine Translation have preceded the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-19 Devshree Patel , Ratnam Parikh , Yesha Shastri

Visual Question Answering (VQA) is a challenge task that combines natural language processing and computer vision techniques and gradually becomes a benchmark test task in multimodal large language models (MLLMs). The goal of our survey is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-27 Jiayi Kuang , Jingyou Xie , Haohao Luo , Ronghao Li , Zhe Xu , Xianfeng Cheng , Yinghui Li , Xika Lin , Ying Shen

Visual Question Answering (VQA) is a recent problem in computer vision and natural language processing that has garnered a large amount of interest from the deep learning, computer vision, and natural language processing communities. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-16 Kushal Kafle , Christopher Kanan

Recent progress in generative video models, such as Veo-3, has shown surprising zero-shot reasoning abilities, creating a growing need for systematic and reliable evaluation. We introduce V-ReasonBench, a benchmark designed to assess video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Yang Luo , Xuanlei Zhao , Baijiong Lin , Lingting Zhu , Liyao Tang , Yuqi Liu , Ying-Cong Chen , Shengju Qian , Xin Wang , Yang You

Despite remarkable recent progress, existing long-form VideoQA datasets fall short of meeting the criteria for genuine long-form video understanding. This is primarily due to the use of short videos for question curation, and the reliance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Hongjie Zhang , Lu Dong , Yi Liu , Yifei Huang , Yali Wang , Limin Wang , Yu Qiao