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Visual question answering (VQA) has recently been introduced to remote sensing to make information extraction from overhead imagery more accessible to everyone. VQA considers a question (in natural language, therefore easy to formulate)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-27 Christel Chappuis , Sylvain Lobry , Benjamin Kellenberger , Bertrand Le Saux , Devis Tuia

The multimodal task of Visual Question Answering (VQA) encompassing elements of Computer Vision (CV) and Natural Language Processing (NLP), aims to generate answers to questions on any visual input. Over time, the scope of VQA has expanded…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Md Farhan Ishmam , Md Sakib Hossain Shovon , M. F. Mridha , Nilanjan Dey

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

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

We present NeuroQA, a large-scale benchmark for visual question answering in 3D brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), with 56,953 QA pairs from 12,977 subjects across 12 datasets. It spans ages 5-104 and five clinical domains:…

Accurate and efficient question-answering systems are essential for delivering high-quality patient care in the medical field. While Large Language Models (LLMs) have made remarkable strides across various domains, they continue to face…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Hang Yang , Hao Chen , Hui Guo , Yineng Chen , Ching-Sheng Lin , Shu Hu , Jinrong Hu , Xi Wu , Xin Wang

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

Part of the appeal of Visual Question Answering (VQA) is its promise to answer new questions about previously unseen images. Most current methods demand training questions that illustrate every possible concept, and will therefore never…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-22 Damien Teney , Anton van den Hengel

Medical Visual Question Answering (Med-VQA) represents a critical and challenging subtask within the general VQA domain. Despite significant advancements in general VQA, multimodal large language models (MLLMs) still exhibit substantial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-14 Hongyu Ge , Longkun Hao , Zihui Xu , Zhenxin Lin , Bin Li , Shoujun Zhou , Hongjin Zhao , Yihang Liu

Medical Visual Question Answering (MedVQA) aims to generate clinically reliable answers conditioned on complex medical images and questions. However, existing methods often overfit to superficial cross-modal correlations, neglecting the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Zibo Xu , Qiang Li , Ke Lu , Jin Wang , Weizhi Nie , Yuting Su

Multi-modal learning has significantly advanced generative AI, especially in vision-language modeling. Innovations like GPT-4V and open-source projects such as LLaVA have enabled robust conversational agents capable of zero-shot task…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Zekai Chen , Arda Pekis , Kevin Brown

Technical reports and articles often contain valuable information in the form of semi-structured data like charts, and figures. Interpreting these and using the information from them is essential for downstream tasks such as question…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Prahitha Movva , Naga Harshita Marupaka

Recently, many benchmarks and datasets have been developed to evaluate Vision-Language Models (VLMs) using visual question answering (VQA) pairs, and models have shown significant accuracy improvements. However, these benchmarks rarely test…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Ishant Chintapatla , Kazuma Choji , Naaisha Agarwal , Andrew Lin , Hannah You , Charles Duong , Kevin Zhu , Sean O'Brien , Vasu Sharma

Point-of-care transthoracic echocardiography (TTE) enables cardiac assessment in virtually any clinical setting, yet its diagnostic utility remains constrained by the expertise required for image acquisition and interpretation. Visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Filippos Bellos , Yutong Li , Jessie N Dong , Zaiyang Guo , Emily Mackay , Yayuan Li , Yannis Avrithis , Alison Pouch , Jason J. Corso

Multimodal Large Language Models are increasingly applied to biomedical imaging, yet scientific reasoning for microscopy remains limited by the scarcity of large-scale, high-quality training data. We introduce MicroVQA++, a three-stage,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Manyu Li , Ruian He , Chenxi Ma , Weimin Tan , Bo Yan

Artificial intelligence has advanced in Medical Visual Question Answering (Med-VQA), but prevalent research tends to focus on the accuracy of the answers, often overlooking the reasoning paths and interpretability, which are crucial in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-19 Jiaxiang Liu , Yuan Wang , Jiawei Du , Joey Tianyi Zhou , Zuozhu Liu

The Medico 2025 challenge addresses Visual Question Answering (VQA) for Gastrointestinal (GI) imaging, organized as part of the MediaEval task series. The challenge focuses on developing Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) models that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Sushant Gautam , Vajira Thambawita , Michael Riegler , Pål Halvorsen , Steven Hicks

In this paper, we critically evaluate the capabilities of the state-of-the-art multimodal large language model, i.e., GPT-4 with Vision (GPT-4V), on Visual Question Answering (VQA) task. Our experiments thoroughly assess GPT-4V's…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Zhiling Yan , Kai Zhang , Rong Zhou , Lifang He , Xiang Li , Lichao Sun

Existing benchmarks for visual question answering lack in visual grounding and complexity, particularly in evaluating spatial reasoning skills. We introduce FlowVQA, a novel benchmark aimed at assessing the capabilities of visual…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-01 Shubhankar Singh , Purvi Chaurasia , Yerram Varun , Pranshu Pandya , Vatsal Gupta , Vivek Gupta , Dan Roth

VQA (Visual Question Answering) combines Natural Language Processing (NLP) with image understanding to answer questions about a given image. It has enormous potential for the development of medical diagnostic AI systems. Such a system can…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-30 Gaurav Parajuli