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We analyze knowledge-based visual question answering, for which given a question, the models need to ground it into the visual modality and retrieve the relevant knowledge from a given large knowledge base (KB) to be able to answer. Our…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-04-17 Elham J. Barezi , Parisa Kordjamshidi

Asking inquisitive questions while reading, and looking for their answers, is an important part in human discourse comprehension, curiosity, and creative ideation, and prior work has investigated this in text-only scenarios. However, in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Yating Wu , William Rudman , Venkata S Govindarajan , Alexandros G. Dimakis , Junyi Jessy Li

Is basic visual understanding really solved in state-of-the-art VLMs? We present VisualOverload, a slightly different visual question answering (VQA) benchmark comprising 2,720 question-answer pairs, with privately held ground-truth…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Paul Gavrikov , Wei Lin , M. Jehanzeb Mirza , Soumya Jahagirdar , Muhammad Huzaifa , Sivan Doveh , Serena Yeung-Levy , James Glass , Hilde Kuehne

Constructing a large-scale labeled dataset in the real world, especially for high-level tasks (eg, Visual Question Answering), can be expensive and time-consuming. In addition, with the ever-growing amounts of data and architecture…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-19 Dong-Jin Kim , Jae Won Cho , Jinsoo Choi , Yunjae Jung , In So Kweon

Vision Language Models (VLMs) have recently shown significant advancements in video understanding, especially in feature alignment, event reasoning, and instruction-following tasks. However, their capability for counterfactual reasoning,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Yuefei Chen , Jiang Liu , Xiaodong Lin , Ruixiang Tang

Knowledge-based visual question answering (KB-VQA) is a challenging task, which requires the model to leverage external knowledge for comprehending and answering questions grounded in visual content. Recent studies retrieve the knowledge…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-18 Dongze Hao , Jian Jia , Longteng Guo , Qunbo Wang , Te Yang , Yan Li , Yanhua Cheng , Bo Wang , Quan Chen , Han Li , Jing Liu

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have achieved strong performance on standard vision-language benchmarks, yet often rely on surface-level recognition rather than deeper reasoning. We propose visual word puzzles as a challenging alternative, as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Ali Najar , Alireza Mirrokni , Arshia Izadyari , Sadegh Mohammadian , Amir Homayoon Sharifizade , Asal Meskin , Mobin Bagherian , Ehsaneddin Asgari

Medical vision-language models (VLMs) combine computer vision (CV) and natural language processing (NLP) to analyze visual and textual medical data. Our paper reviews recent advancements in developing VLMs specialized for healthcare,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Iryna Hartsock , Ghulam Rasool

Multi-modal tasks involving vision and language in deep learning continue to rise in popularity and are leading to the development of newer models that can generalize beyond the extent of their training data. The current models lack…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-21 Ethan Shen , Scotty Singh , Bhavesh Kumar

We introduce Skywork-R1V3, an advanced, open-source vision-language model (VLM) that pioneers a new approach to visual reasoning. Its key innovation lies in effectively transferring reasoning skills from text-only Large Language Models…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Wei Shen , Jiangbo Pei , Yi Peng , Xuchen Song , Yang Liu , Jian Peng , Haofeng Sun , Yunzhuo Hao , Peiyu Wang , Jianhao Zhang , Yahui Zhou

Recent advances in multimodal question answering have primarily focused on combining heterogeneous modalities or fine-tuning multimodal large language models. While these approaches have shown strong performance, they often rely on a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Krishna Singh Rajput , Tejas Anvekar , Chitta Baral , Vivek Gupta

We introduce FigureQA, a visual reasoning corpus of over one million question-answer pairs grounded in over 100,000 images. The images are synthetic, scientific-style figures from five classes: line plots, dot-line plots, vertical and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-26 Samira Ebrahimi Kahou , Vincent Michalski , Adam Atkinson , Akos Kadar , Adam Trischler , Yoshua Bengio

The reasoning gap between large and compact vision-language models (VLMs) limits the deployment of medical AI on portable clinical devices. Compact VLMs of 2--4B parameters can run on resource-constrained hardware but lack the multi-step…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Runze Ma , Shunbo Jia , Haonan Lyu , Guo Liu , Caizhi Liao

Question answering, asking, and assessment are three innate human traits crucial for understanding the world and acquiring knowledge. By enhancing these capabilities, humans can more effectively utilize data, leading to better comprehension…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-21 Henry Hengyuan Zhao , Pan Zhou , Difei Gao , Zechen Bai , Mike Zheng Shou

This paper presents a state-of-the-art model for visual question answering (VQA), which won the first place in the 2017 VQA Challenge. VQA is a task of significant importance for research in artificial intelligence, given its multimodal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-10 Damien Teney , Peter Anderson , Xiaodong He , Anton van den Hengel

Knowledge-based visual question answering requires the ability of associating external knowledge for open-ended cross-modal scene understanding. One limitation of existing solutions is that they capture relevant knowledge from text-only…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-18 Yang Ding , Jing Yu , Bang Liu , Yue Hu , Mingxin Cui , Qi Wu

Visual Question Answering (VQA) has emerged as one of the most challenging tasks in artificial intelligence due to its multi-modal nature. However, most existing VQA methods are incapable of handling Knowledge-based Visual Question…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-21 Chengxiang Yin , Zhengping Che , Kun Wu , Zhiyuan Xu , Jian Tang

This paper presents a new baseline for visual question answering task. Given an image and a question in natural language, our model produces accurate answers according to the content of the image. Our model, while being architecturally…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-13 Vahid Kazemi , Ali Elqursh

Question categorization and expert retrieval methods have been crucial for information organization and accessibility in community question & answering (CQA) platforms. Research in this area, however, has dealt with only the text modality.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-05-28 Avikalp Srivastava , Hsin Wen Liu , Sumio Fujita

The advent and proliferation of large multi-modal models (LMMs) have introduced new paradigms to computer vision, transforming various tasks into a unified visual question answering framework. Video Quality Assessment (VQA), a classic field…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Ziheng Jia , Zicheng Zhang , Jiaying Qian , Haoning Wu , Wei Sun , Chunyi Li , Xiaohong Liu , Weisi Lin , Guangtao Zhai , Xiongkuo Min