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We introduce a new test set for visual question answering (VQA) called BinaryVQA to push the limits of VQA models. Our dataset includes 7,800 questions across 1,024 images and covers a wide variety of objects, topics, and concepts. For easy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Ali Borji

In this paper, we focus on the Audio-Visual Question Answering (AVQA) task, which aims to answer questions regarding different visual objects, sounds, and their associations in videos. The problem requires comprehensive multimodal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-06 Guangyao Li , Yake Wei , Yapeng Tian , Chenliang Xu , Ji-Rong Wen , Di Hu

We tackle the challenge of Visual Question Answering in multi-image setting for the ISVQA dataset. Traditional VQA tasks have focused on a single-image setting where the target answer is generated from a single image. Image set VQA,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-02 Abhinav Khattar , Aviral Joshi , Har Simrat Singh , Pulkit Goel , Rohit Prakash Barnwal

In visual question answering (VQA), an algorithm must answer text-based questions about images. While multiple datasets for VQA have been created since late 2014, they all have flaws in both their content and the way algorithms are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-15 Kushal Kafle , Christopher Kanan

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

Current visual question answering datasets do not consider the rich semantic information conveyed by text within an image. In this work, we present a new dataset, ST-VQA, that aims to highlight the importance of exploiting high-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-17 Ali Furkan Biten , Ruben Tito , Andres Mafla , Lluis Gomez , Marçal Rusiñol , Ernest Valveny , C. V. Jawahar , Dimosthenis Karatzas

In recent years, Visual Question Answering (VQA) has gained significant attention for its diverse applications, including intelligent car assistance, aiding visually impaired individuals, and document image information retrieval using…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-30 Khiem Vinh Tran , Hao Phu Phan , Kiet Van Nguyen , Ngan Luu Thuy Nguyen

Visual understanding requires interpreting both natural scenes and the textual information that appears within them, motivating tasks such as Visual Question Answering (VQA). However, current VQA benchmarks overlook scenarios with visually…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Jianing An , Luyang Jiang , Jie Luo , Wenjun Wu , Lei Huang

Recent research in disaster informatics demonstrates a practical and important use case of artificial intelligence to save human lives and suffering during natural disasters based on social media contents (text and images). While notable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-05 Firoj Alam , Tanvirul Alam , Md. Arid Hasan , Abul Hasnat , Muhammad Imran , Ferda Ofli

In emergency situations, every second counts. The deployment of Large Language Models (LLMs) in time-sensitive, low or zero-connectivity environments remains limited. Current models are computationally intensive and unsuitable for low-tier…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Saiyma Sittul Muna , Rezwan Islam Salvi , Mushfiqur Rahman Mushfique , Ajwad Abrar

Video Question Answering methods focus on commonsense reasoning and visual cognition of objects or persons and their interactions over time. Current VideoQA approaches ignore the textual information present in the video. Instead, we argue…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-08 Soumya Jahagirdar , Minesh Mathew , Dimosthenis Karatzas , C. V. Jawahar

In recent years, visual question answering (VQA) has become topical. The premise of VQA's significance as a benchmark in AI, is that both the image and textual question need to be well understood and mutually grounded in order to infer the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-20 Feng Liu , Tao Xiang , Timothy M. Hospedales , Wankou Yang , Changyin Sun

On the way towards general Visual Question Answering (VQA) systems that are able to answer arbitrary questions, the need arises for evaluation beyond single-metric leaderboards for specific datasets. To this end, we propose a browser-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Dirk Väth , Pascal Tilli , Ngoc Thang Vu

Visual Question Answering (VQA) concerns providing answers to Natural Language questions about images. Several deep neural network approaches have been proposed to model the task in an end-to-end fashion. Whereas the task is grounded in…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-02-03 Mehrdad Alizadeh , Barbara Di Eugenio

Most existing research on visual question answering (VQA) is limited to information explicitly present in an image or a video. In this paper, we take visual understanding to a higher level where systems are challenged to answer questions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-14 Shailaja Keyur Sampat , Akshay Kumar , Yezhou Yang , Chitta Baral

In times of crisis, the prompt and precise classification of disaster-related information shared on social media platforms is crucial for effective disaster response and public safety. During such critical events, individuals use social…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Shahid Shafi Dar , Mohammad Zia Ur Rehman , Karan Bais , Mohammed Abdul Haseeb , Nagendra Kumara

Video question answering (VideoQA) aims to answer natural language questions according to the given videos. Although existing models perform well in the factoid VideoQA task, they still face challenges in deep video understanding (DVU)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Zhengqian Wu , Ruizhe Li , Zijun Xu , Zhongyuan Wang , Chunxia Xiao , Chao Liang

Images shared on social media help crisis managers gain situational awareness and assess incurred damages, among other response tasks. As the volume and velocity of such content are typically high, real-time image classification has become…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-20 Firoj Alam , Tanvirul Alam , Muhammad Imran , Ferda Ofli

Ensuring the safety of vulnerable road users (VRUs), such as pedestrians and cyclists, is a critical challenge for autonomous driving systems, as crashes involving VRUs often result in severe or fatal consequences. While multimodal large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Younggun Kim , Ahmed S. Abdelrahman , Mohamed Abdel-Aty

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