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Problems at the intersection of vision and language are of significant importance both as challenging research questions and for the rich set of applications they enable. However, inherent structure in our world and bias in our language…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-16 Yash Goyal , Tejas Khot , Douglas Summers-Stay , Dhruv Batra , Devi Parikh

We introduce an interactive learning framework for the development and testing of intelligent visual systems, called learning-by-asking (LBA). We explore LBA in context of the Visual Question Answering (VQA) task. LBA differs from standard…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-05 Ishan Misra , Ross Girshick , Rob Fergus , Martial Hebert , Abhinav Gupta , Laurens van der Maaten

Video text-based visual question answering (Video TextVQA) task aims to answer questions about videos by leveraging the visual text appearing within the videos. This task poses significant challenges, requiring models to accurately perceive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Haibin He , Qihuang Zhong , Juhua Liu , Bo Du , Peng Wang , Jing Zhang

Image captioning is a critical task at the intersection of computer vision and natural language processing, with wide-ranging applications across various domains. For complex tasks such as diagnostic report generation, deep learning models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Pu Yang , Bin Dong

In the domain of Visual Question Answering (VQA), studies have shown improvement in users' mental model of the VQA system when they are exposed to examples of how these systems answer certain Image-Question (IQ) pairs. In this work, we show…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Kamran Alipour , Arijit Ray , Xiao Lin , Michael Cogswell , Jurgen P. Schulze , Yi Yao , Giedrius T. Burachas

Visual question answering (VQA) systems are emerging from a desire to empower users to ask any natural language question about visual content and receive a valid answer in response. However, close examination of the VQA problem reveals an…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-08-30 Danna Gurari , Kristen Grauman

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have shown impressive capabilities in jointly understanding text, images, and videos, often evaluated via Visual Question Answering (VQA). However, even state-of-the-art MLLMs struggle with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Alberto Compagnoni , Marco Morini , Sara Sarto , Federico Cocchi , Davide Caffagni , Marcella Cornia , Lorenzo Baraldi , Rita Cucchiara

Knowledge base question answering (KBQA) is a challenging task that aims to retrieve correct answers from large-scale knowledge bases. Existing attempts primarily focus on entity representation and final answer reasoning, which results in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-26 Yong Cao , Xianzhi Li , Huiwen Liu , Wen Dai , Shuai Chen , Bin Wang , Min Chen , Daniel Hershcovich

Video Question Answering (VideoQA) aims to answer natural language questions based on the given video, with prior work primarily focusing on identifying the duration of relevant segments, referred to as explicit visual evidence. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Tieyuan Chen , Huabin Liu , Yi Wang , Chaofan Gan , Mingxi Lyu , Ziran Qin , Shijie Li , Liquan Shen , Junhui Hou , Zheng Wang , Weiyao Lin

This study aims to develop models that generate corpus informed clarifying questions for web search, in a way that ensures the questions align with the available information in the retrieval corpus. We demonstrate the effectiveness of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-09-30 Antonios Minas Krasakis , Andrew Yates , Evangelos Kanoulas

Visual Question-Answering (VQA) is a challenging multimodal task that requires integrating visual and textual information to generate accurate responses. While multimodal Retrieval-Augmented Generation (mRAG) has shown promise in enhancing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Zhuo Chen , Xinyu Geng , Xinyu Wang , Yong Jiang , Zhen Zhang , Pengjun Xie , Kewei Tu

Current work on Visual Question Answering (VQA) explore deterministic approaches conditioned on various types of image and question features. We posit that, in addition to image and question pairs, other modalities are useful for teaching…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-28 Zixu Wang , Yishu Miao , Lucia Specia

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

Despite Visual Question Answering (VQA) has realized impressive progress over the last few years, today's VQA models tend to capture superficial linguistic correlations in the train set and fail to generalize to the test set with different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-17 Long Chen , Xin Yan , Jun Xiao , Hanwang Zhang , Shiliang Pu , Yueting Zhuang

Visual Query Answering (VQA) is of great significance in offering people convenience: one can raise a question for details of objects, or high-level understanding about the scene, over an image. This paper proposes a novel method to address…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-19 Peixi Xiong , Huayi Zhan , Xin Wang , Baivab Sinha , Ying Wu

When people query Vision-Language Models (VLMs) but cannot see the accompanying visual context (e.g. for blind and low-vision users), augmenting VLM predictions with natural language explanations can signal which model predictions are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Keyu He , Tejas Srinivasan , Brihi Joshi , Xiang Ren , Jesse Thomason , Swabha Swayamdipta

We introduce the task of acoustic question answering (AQA) in the area of acoustic reasoning. In this task an agent learns to answer questions on the basis of acoustic context. In order to promote research in this area, we propose a data…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-11-27 Jerome Abdelnour , Giampiero Salvi , Jean Rouat

Existing attention mechanisms either attend to local image grid or object level features for Visual Question Answering (VQA). Motivated by the observation that questions can relate to both object instances and their parts, we propose a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-30 Moshiur R Farazi , Salman H Khan

Visual Question Answering (VQA) has emerged as a pivotal task in the intersection of computer vision and natural language processing, requiring models to understand and reason about visual content in response to natural language questions.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Aiswarya Baby , Tintu Thankom Koshy

Visual Question Answering (VQA) is a multi-discipline research task. To produce the right answer, it requires an understanding of the visual content of images, the natural language questions, as well as commonsense reasoning over the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Yao Zhang , Haokun Chen , Ahmed Frikha , Yezi Yang , Denis Krompass , Gengyuan Zhang , Jindong Gu , Volker Tresp