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Modern Visual Question Answering (VQA) models have been shown to rely heavily on superficial correlations between question and answer words learned during training such as overwhelmingly reporting the type of room as kitchen or the sport…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-12 Sainandan Ramakrishnan , Aishwarya Agrawal , Stefan Lee

Methods for Visual Question Anwering (VQA) are notorious for leveraging dataset biases rather than performing reasoning, hindering generalization. It has been recently shown that better reasoning patterns emerge in attention layers of a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-11 Corentin Kervadec , Christian Wolf , Grigory Antipov , Moez Baccouche , Madiha Nadri

Most existing approaches to Visual Question Answering (VQA) answer questions directly, however, people usually decompose a complex question into a sequence of simple sub questions and finally obtain the answer to the original question after…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Ruonan Wang , Yuxi Qian , Fangxiang Feng , Xiaojie Wang , Huixing Jiang

In the realm of multimodal tasks, Visual Question Answering (VQA) plays a crucial role by addressing natural language questions grounded in visual content. Knowledge-Based Visual Question Answering (KBVQA) advances this concept by adding…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Manas Jhalani , Annervaz K M , Pushpak Bhattacharyya

Visual Question Answering (VQA) has attracted attention from both computer vision and natural language processing communities. Most existing approaches adopt the pipeline of representing an image via pre-trained CNNs, and then using the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-30 Qing Li , Jianlong Fu , Dongfei Yu , Tao Mei , Jiebo Luo

Recent 3D Large-Language Models (3D-LLMs) claim to understand 3D worlds, especially spatial relationships among objects. Yet, we find that simply fine-tuning a language model on text-only question-answer pairs can perform comparably or even…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Xianzheng Ma , Tao Sun , Shuai Chen , Yash Bhalgat , Jindong Gu , Angel X Chang , Iro Armeni , Iro Laina , Songyou Peng , Victor Adrian Prisacariu

In this paper, we propose a novel end-to-end trainable Video Question Answering (VideoQA) framework with three major components: 1) a new heterogeneous memory which can effectively learn global context information from appearance and motion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-10 Chenyou Fan , Xiaofan Zhang , Shu Zhang , Wensheng Wang , Chi Zhang , Heng Huang

We propose a new 3D spatial understanding task of 3D Question Answering (3D-QA). In the 3D-QA task, models receive visual information from the entire 3D scene of the rich RGB-D indoor scan and answer the given textual questions about the 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Daichi Azuma , Taiki Miyanishi , Shuhei Kurita , Motoaki Kawanabe

Visual question answering (VQA) is a task that combines both the techniques of computer vision and natural language processing. It requires models to answer a text-based question according to the information contained in a visual. In recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-04 Yeyun Zou , Qiyu Xie

The rise of vision-language foundation models marks an advancement in bridging the gap between human and machine capabilities in 3D scene reasoning. Existing 3D reasoning benchmarks assume real-time scene accessibility, which is impractical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Ye Mao , Weixun Luo , Junpeng Jing , Anlan Qiu , Krystian Mikolajczyk

Human video comprehension demonstrates dynamic coordination between reasoning and visual attention, adaptively focusing on query-relevant details. However, current long-form video question answering systems employ rigid pipelines that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Zixuan Dong , Baoyun Peng , Yufei Wang , Lin Liu , Xinxin Dong , Yunlong Cao , Xiaodong Wang

Video Question Answering (VideoQA) has emerged as a vital tool to evaluate agents' ability to understand human daily behaviors. Despite the recent success of large vision language models in many multi-modal tasks, complex situation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-04 Ziyi Bai , Ruiping Wang , Xilin Chen

Deep neural networks have been critical in the task of Visual Question Answering (VQA), with research traditionally focused on improving model accuracy. Recently, however, there has been a trend towards evaluating the robustness of these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-07 Jia-Hong Huang , Modar Alfadly , Bernard Ghanem , Marcel Worring

In this report, we present our champion solution for Ego4D EgoSchema Challenge in CVPR 2024. To deeply integrate the powerful egocentric captioning model and question reasoning model, we propose a novel Hierarchical Comprehension scheme for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Haoyu Zhang , Yuquan Xie , Yisen Feng , Zaijing Li , Meng Liu , Liqiang Nie

A key aspect of VQA models that are interpretable is their ability to ground their answers to relevant regions in the image. Current approaches with this capability rely on supervised learning and human annotated groundings to train…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-02 Yundong Zhang , Juan Carlos Niebles , Alvaro Soto

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) often suffer from perceptual impairments under extended reasoning modes, particularly in visual question answering (VQA) tasks. We identify attention dispersion as the underlying cause: during…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Ruiying Peng , Xueyu Wu , Jing Lei , Lu Hou , Yuanzheng Ma , Xiaohui Li

Continual Visual Question Answering (VQA) requires learning from non-stationary streams of visual inputs and questions while preserving past knowledge. Most prior methods adapt by updating a largely shared parameter set. This often leads to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Yiran Wang , Chenyi Xiong , Ziyue Qin , Miao Zhang , Kui Xiao , Zhifei Li

3D Visual Question Answering (3D VQA) is crucial for enabling models to perceive the physical world and perform spatial reasoning. In 3D VQA, the free-form nature of answers often leads to improper annotations that can confuse or mislead…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Shengli Zhou , Yang Liu , Feng Zheng

We introduce an evaluation methodology for visual question answering (VQA) to better diagnose cases of shortcut learning. These cases happen when a model exploits spurious statistical regularities to produce correct answers but does not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-02 Corentin Dancette , Remi Cadene , Damien Teney , Matthieu Cord

Since its inception, Visual Question Answering (VQA) is notoriously known as a task, where models are prone to exploit biases in datasets to find shortcuts instead of performing high-level reasoning. Classical methods address this by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-09 Corentin Kervadec , Theo Jaunet , Grigory Antipov , Moez Baccouche , Romain Vuillemot , Christian Wolf