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We investigate the problem of cross-dataset adaptation for visual question answering (Visual QA). Our goal is to train a Visual QA model on a source dataset but apply it to another target one. Analogous to domain adaptation for visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-12 Wei-Lun Chao , Hexiang Hu , Fei Sha

Visual arguments, often used in advertising or social causes, rely on images to persuade viewers to do or believe something. Understanding these arguments requires selective vision: only specific visual stimuli within an image are relevant…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-24 Jiwan Chung , Sungjae Lee , Minseo Kim , Seungju Han , Ashkan Yousefpour , Jack Hessel , Youngjae Yu

Visual Dialog requires an agent to engage in a conversation with humans grounded in an image. Many studies on Visual Dialog focus on the understanding of the dialog history or the content of an image, while a considerable amount of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-12 Shunyu Zhang , Xiaoze Jiang , Zequn Yang , Tao Wan , Zengchang Qin

Visual question answering (VQA) has been gaining a lot of traction in the machine learning community in the recent years due to the challenges posed in understanding information coming from multiple modalities (i.e., images, language). In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-11 Muralikrishnna G. Sethuraman , Ali Payani , Faramarz Fekri , J. Clayton Kerce

Knowledge-based visual question answering (KB-VQA) demonstrates significant potential for handling knowledge-intensive tasks. However, conflicts arise between static parametric knowledge in vision language models (VLMs) and dynamically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Yuyang Hong , Jiaqi Gu , Yujin Lou , Lubin Fan , Qi Yang , Ying Wang , Kun Ding , Yue Wu , Shiming Xiang , Jieping Ye

Video analytics systems based on deep learning models are often opaque and brittle and require explanation systems to help users debug. Current model explanation system are very good at giving literal explanations of behavior in terms of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Jinjin Zhao , Ted Shaowang , Stavos Sintos , Sanjay Krishnan

Video question grounding (VideoQG) requires models to answer the questions and simultaneously infer the relevant video segments to support the answers. However, existing VideoQG methods usually suffer from spurious cross-modal correlations,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Weixing Chen , Yang Liu , Binglin Chen , Jiandong Su , Yongsen Zheng , Liang Lin

Visual Question Answering (VQA) is a multi-modal task that involves answering questions from an input image, semantically understanding the contents of the image and answering it in natural language. Using VQA for disaster management is an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-14 Aditya Kane , V Manushree , Sahil Khose

Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) have advanced considerably, intertwining visual recognition and language understanding to generate content that is not only coherent but also contextually attuned. Despite their success, LVLMs still…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-29 Sicong Leng , Hang Zhang , Guanzheng Chen , Xin Li , Shijian Lu , Chunyan Miao , Lidong Bing

Text-based VQA aims at answering questions by reading the text present in the images. It requires a large amount of scene-text relationship understanding compared to the VQA task. Recent studies have shown that the question-answer pairs in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-02 Shamanthak Hegde , Soumya Jahagirdar , Shankar Gangisetty

Visual question answering (VQA) in medical imaging aims to support clinical diagnosis by automatically interpreting complex imaging data in response to natural language queries. Existing studies typically rely on distinct visual and textual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Yuanhe Tian , Chen Su , Junwen Duan , Yan Song

Visual Question Answering (VQA) is an interdisciplinary field that bridges the gap between computer vision (CV) and natural language processing(NLP), enabling Artificial Intelligence(AI) systems to answer questions about images. Since its…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Anupam Pandey , Deepjyoti Bodo , Arpan Phukan , Asif Ekbal

In this paper, we propose a method to obtain robust explanations for visual question answering(VQA) that correlate well with the answers. Our model explains the answers obtained through a VQA model by providing visual and textual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-24 Badri N. Patro , Shivansh Pate , Vinay P. Namboodiri

Causal approaches to post-hoc explainability for black-box prediction models (e.g., deep neural networks trained on image pixel data) have become increasingly popular. However, existing approaches have two important shortcomings: (i) the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Numair Sani , Daniel Malinsky , Ilya Shpitser

Causal representation learning seeks to uncover causal relationships among high-level latent variables from low-level, entangled, and noisy observations. Existing approaches often either rely on deep neural networks, which lack…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-03-27 Wenjin Zhang , Yixin Wang , Yuqi Gu

Visual Question Answering (VQA) presents a unique challenge as it requires the ability to understand and encode the multi-modal inputs - in terms of image processing and natural language processing. The algorithm further needs to learn how…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-26 Supriya Pandhre , Shagun Sodhani

Video captioning is a critical task in the field of multimodal machine learning, aiming to generate descriptive and coherent textual narratives for video content. While large vision-language models (LVLMs) have shown significant progress,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Ji-jun Park , Soo-joon Choi

Most prior art in visual understanding relies solely on analyzing the "what" (e.g., event recognition) and "where" (e.g., event localization), which in some cases, fails to describe correct contextual relationships between events or leads…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Aman Chadha , Gurneet Arora , Navpreet Kaloty

Learning dense visual representations without labels is an arduous task and more so from scene-centric data. We propose to tackle this challenging problem by proposing a Cross-view consistency objective with an Online Clustering mechanism…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-24 Thomas Stegmüller , Tim Lebailly , Behzad Bozorgtabar , Tinne Tuytelaars , Jean-Philippe Thiran

In this paper, we propose to investigate the problem of out-of-domain visio-linguistic pretraining, where the pretraining data distribution differs from that of downstream data on which the pretrained model will be fine-tuned. Existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-05 Shengyu Zhang , Tan Jiang , Tan Wang , Kun Kuang , Zhou Zhao , Jianke Zhu , Jin Yu , Hongxia Yang , Fei Wu