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Visual Question Answering (VQA) with multiple choice questions enables a vision-centric evaluation of Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs). Although it reliably checks the existence of specific visual abilities, it is easier for the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Manu Gaur , Darshan Singh S , Makarand Tapaswi

When visual evidence is ambiguous, vision models must decide whether to interpret face-like patterns as meaningful. Face pareidolia, the perception of faces in non-face objects, provides a controlled probe of this behavior. We introduce a…

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Large vision-language models (LVLMs) demonstrate strong visual question answering (VQA) capabilities but are shown to hallucinate. A reliable model should perceive its knowledge boundaries-knowing what it knows and what it does not. This…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Zhikai Ding , Shiyu Ni , Keping Bi

Most recent state-of-the-art Visual Question Answering (VQA) systems are opaque black boxes that are only trained to fit the answer distribution given the question and visual content. As a result, these systems frequently take shortcuts,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-30 Jialin Wu , Liyan Chen , Raymond J. Mooney

Recent advancements have enhanced the capability of Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) to comprehend multi-image information. However, existing benchmarks primarily evaluate answer correctness, overlooking whether models genuinely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Pengfei Wang , Guohai Xu , Weinong Wang , Junjie Yang , Jie Lou , Yunhua Xue

Despite recent advances in Vision-Language Models (VLMs), they may over-rely on visual language priors existing in their training data rather than true visual reasoning. To investigate this, we introduce ViLP, a benchmark featuring…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Tiange Luo , Ang Cao , Gunhee Lee , Justin Johnson , Honglak Lee

Benefiting from the advancement of computer vision, natural language processing and information retrieval techniques, visual question answering (VQA), which aims to answer questions about an image or a video, has received lots of attentions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-14 Yangyang Guo , Zhiyong Cheng , Liqiang Nie , Yibing Liu , Yinglong Wang , Mohan Kankanhalli

Answering open-ended questions is an essential capability for any intelligent agent. One of the most interesting recent open-ended question answering challenges is Visual Question Answering (VQA) which attempts to evaluate a system's visual…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-10-25 Omid Bakhshandeh , Trung Bui , Zhe Lin , Walter Chang

We present M$^3$-VQA, a novel knowledge-based Visual Question Answering (VQA) benchmark, to enhance the evaluation of multimodal large language models (MLLMs) in fine-grained multimodal entity understanding and complex multi-hop reasoning.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Jiatong Ma , Longteng Guo , Yuchen Liu , Zijia Zhao , Dongze Hao , Xuanxu Lin , Jing Liu

Visual Question Answering (VQA) systems are tasked with answering natural language questions corresponding to a presented image. Traditional VQA datasets typically contain questions related to the spatial information of objects, object…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-06-05 Goonmeet Bajaj , Bortik Bandyopadhyay , Daniel Schmidt , Pranav Maneriker , Christopher Myers , Srinivasan Parthasarathy

The recent success of large language and vision models (LLVMs) on vision question answering (VQA), particularly their applications in medicine (Med-VQA), has shown a great potential of realizing effective visual assistants for healthcare.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-04 Jinge Wu , Yunsoo Kim , Honghan Wu

Spatial expressions in situated communication can be ambiguous, as their meanings vary depending on the frames of reference (FoR) adopted by speakers and listeners. While spatial language understanding and reasoning by vision-language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-18 Zheyuan Zhang , Fengyuan Hu , Jayjun Lee , Freda Shi , Parisa Kordjamshidi , Joyce Chai , Ziqiao Ma

Visual Question Answering (VQA) is challenging due to the complex cross-modal relations. It has received extensive attention from the research community. From the human perspective, to answer a visual question, one needs to read the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Hantao Huang , Tao Han , Wei Han , Deep Yap , Cheng-Ming Chiang

Explanations for computer vision models are important tools for interpreting how the underlying models work. However, they are often presented in static formats, which pose challenges for users, including information overload, a gap between…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Indu Panigrahi , Sunnie S. Y. Kim , Amna Liaqat , Rohan Jinturkar , Olga Russakovsky , Ruth Fong , Parastoo Abtahi

Ambiguous questions persist in open-domain question answering, because formulating a precise question with a unique answer is often challenging. Previously, Min et al. (2020) have tackled this issue by generating disambiguated questions for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Dongryeol Lee , Segwang Kim , Minwoo Lee , Hwanhee Lee , Joonsuk Park , Sang-Woo Lee , Kyomin Jung

We introduce WearVQA, the first benchmark specifically designed to evaluate the Visual Question Answering (VQA) capabilities of multi-model AI assistant on wearable devices like smart glasses. Unlike prior benchmarks that focus on…

Real-world visual question answering (VQA) is often context-dependent: an image-question pair may be under-specified, such that the correct answer depends on external information that is not observable in the image. In such cases, directly…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Zongwan Cao , Bingbing Wen , Lucy Lu Wang

Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) demonstrate remarkable capabilities in multimodal tasks, but visual object hallucination remains a persistent issue. It refers to scenarios where models generate inaccurate visual object-related…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Liqiang Jing , Guiming Hardy Chen , Ehsan Aghazadeh , Xin Eric Wang , Xinya Du

The evolution of Visual Large Language Models (VLLMs) has revolutionized the automatic understanding of Visually Rich Documents (VRDs), which contain both textual and visual elements. Although VLLMs excel in Visual Question Answering (VQA)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Davide Napolitano , Luca Cagliero , Fabrizio Battiloro

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have emerged as general purpose tools for addressing a variety of complex computer vision problems. Such models have been shown to be highly capable, but, at the same time, also lacking some basic visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-14 Shivam Chandhok , Wan-Cyuan Fan , Leonid Sigal