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Many vision and language tasks require commonsense reasoning beyond data-driven image and natural language processing. Here we adopt Visual Question Answering (VQA) as an example task, where a system is expected to answer a question in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-26 Somak Aditya , Yezhou Yang , Chitta Baral

Chain-of-thought (CoT) reasoning has been highly successful in solving complex tasks in natural language processing, and recent multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have extended this paradigm to video reasoning. However, these models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Yiwu Zhong , Zi-Yuan Hu , Yin Li , Liwei Wang

Video Question Answering (VideoQA) is the task of answering the natural language questions about a video. Producing an answer requires understanding the interplay across visual scenes in video and linguistic semantics in question. However,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-07-27 Yicong Li , Xiang Wang , Junbin Xiao , Tat-Seng Chua

Visual question answering (VQA) demands simultaneous comprehension of both the image visual content and natural language questions. In some cases, the reasoning needs the help of common sense or general knowledge which usually appear in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-30 Hui Li , Peng Wang , Chunhua Shen , Anton van den Hengel

Visual Question Answering (VQA) requires models to reason over multimodal information, combining visual and textual data. With the development of continual learning, significant progress has been made in retaining knowledge and adapting to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Zhifei Li , Yiran Wang , Chenyi Xiong , Yujing Xia , Xiaoju Hou , Yue Zhao , Miao Zhang , Kui Xiao , Bing Yang

Large vision-language models (VLMs) have advanced multimodal tasks such as video question answering (QA). However, VLMs face the challenge of selecting frames effectively and efficiently, as standard uniform sampling is expensive and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Martin Q. Ma , Willis Guo , Aditya Agrawal , Ankit Gupta , Paul Pu Liang , Ruslan Salakhutdinov , Louis-Philippe Morency

Knowledge-based Vision Question Answering (KB-VQA) extends general Vision Question Answering (VQA) by not only requiring the understanding of visual and textual inputs but also extensive range of knowledge, enabling significant advancements…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-25 Jiaqi Deng , Zonghan Wu , Huan Huo , Guandong Xu

Video question answering (Video QA) presents a powerful testbed for human-like intelligent behaviors. The task demands new capabilities to integrate video processing, language understanding, binding abstract linguistic concepts to concrete…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-12 Long Hoang Dang , Thao Minh Le , Vuong Le , Truyen Tran

Graphic visual content helps in promoting information communication and inspiration divergence. However, the interpretation of visual content currently relies mainly on humans' personal knowledge background, thereby affecting the quality…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Xiaoyu Deng , Zhengjian Kang , Xintao Li , Yongzhe Zhang , Tianmin Guo

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

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

Knowledge-based visual question answering (KB-VQA) requires vision-language models to understand images and use external knowledge, especially for rare entities and long-tail facts. Most existing retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Zhuohong Chen , Zhenxian Wu , Yunyao Yu , Hangrui Xu , Zirui Liao , Zhifang Liu , Xiangwen Deng , Pen Jiao , Haoqian Wang

Embodied question answering (EQA) in 3D environments often requires collecting context that is distributed across multiple viewpoints and partially occluded. However, most recent vision--language models (VLMs) are constrained to a fixed and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Haoyu Zhao , Akide Liu , Zeyu Zhang , Weijie Wang , Feng Chen , Ruihan Zhu , Gholamreza Haffari , Bohan Zhuang

Recent advancements in language-model-based video understanding have been progressing at a remarkable pace, spurred by the introduction of Large Language Models (LLMs). However, the focus of prior research has been predominantly on devising…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-06 Yizhou Wang , Ruiyi Zhang , Haoliang Wang , Uttaran Bhattacharya , Yun Fu , Gang Wu

Visual Question Answering (VQA) is a novel problem domain where multi-modal inputs must be processed in order to solve the task given in the form of a natural language. As the solutions inherently require to combine visual and natural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-31 Mikyas T. Desta , Larry Chen , Tomasz Kornuta

Video reasoning constitutes a comprehensive assessment of a model's capabilities, as it demands robust perceptual and interpretive skills, thereby serving as a means to explore the boundaries of model performance. While recent research has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Yudi Shi , Shangzhe Di , Qirui Chen , Qinian Wang , Jiayin Cai , Xiaolong Jiang , Yao Hu , Weidi Xie

Humans are able to accurately reason in 3D by gathering multi-view observations of the surrounding world. Inspired by this insight, we introduce a new large-scale benchmark for 3D multi-view visual question answering (3DMV-VQA). This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Yining Hong , Chunru Lin , Yilun Du , Zhenfang Chen , Joshua B. Tenenbaum , Chuang Gan

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

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

Significant advancements in video question answering (VideoQA) have been made thanks to thriving large image-language pretraining frameworks. Although these image-language models can efficiently represent both video and language branches,…

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