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Medical visual question answering (VQA) is a challenging task that requires answering clinical questions of a given medical image, by taking consider of both visual and language information. However, due to the small scale of training data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-12 Pengfei Li , Gang Liu , Jinlong He , Zixu Zhao , Shenjun Zhong

Exploring large-scale pretrained foundation models is of significant interest in computer vision because these models can be quickly transferred to many downstream tasks. This paper presents Contrastive Captioner (CoCa), a minimalist design…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-15 Jiahui Yu , Zirui Wang , Vijay Vasudevan , Legg Yeung , Mojtaba Seyedhosseini , Yonghui Wu

We present Multiple-Question Multiple-Answer (MQMA), a novel approach to do text-VQA in encoder-decoder transformer models. The text-VQA task requires a model to answer a question by understanding multi-modal content: text (typically from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-16 Peng Tang , Srikar Appalaraju , R. Manmatha , Yusheng Xie , Vijay Mahadevan

Human visual perception naturally evaluates image quality across multiple scales, a hierarchical process that existing blind image quality assessment (BIQA) algorithms struggle to replicate effectively. This limitation stems from a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Runze Hu , Zihao Huang , Xudong Li , Bohan Fu , Yan Zhang , Sicheng Zhao

In the realms of computer vision and natural language processing, Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have become indispensable tools, proficient in generating textual responses based on visual inputs. Despite their advancements, our…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-15 YiFan Zhang , Yang Shi , Weichen Yu , Qingsong Wen , Xue Wang , Wenjing Yang , Zhang Zhang , Liang Wang , Rong Jin

Medical visual question answering aims to support clinical decision-making by enabling models to answer natural language questions based on medical images. While recent advances in multi-modal learning have significantly improved…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Bo Liu , Xiangyu Zhao , Along He , Yidi Chen , Huazhu Fu , Xiao-Ming Wu

Visual Question Answering (VQA) is a challenging task of predicting the answer to a question about the content of an image. Prior works directly evaluate the answering models by simply calculating the accuracy of predicted answers. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Kun Li , George Vosselman , Michael Ying Yang

Recent studies have pointed out that many well-developed Visual Question Answering (VQA) models are heavily affected by the language prior problem, which refers to making predictions based on the co-occurrence pattern between textual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-15 Yangyang Guo , Liqiang Nie , Zhiyong Cheng , Qi Tian , Min Zhang

Image Quality Assessment (IQA) models benefit significantly from semantic information, which allows them to treat different types of objects distinctly. Currently, leveraging semantic information to enhance IQA is a crucial research…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Wensheng Pan , Timin Gao , Yan Zhang , Runze Hu , Xiawu Zheng , Enwei Zhang , Yuting Gao , Yutao Liu , Yunhang Shen , Ke Li , Shengchuan Zhang , Liujuan Cao , Rongrong Ji

We aim at advancing blind image quality assessment (BIQA), which predicts the human perception of image quality without any reference information. We develop a general and automated multitask learning scheme for BIQA to exploit auxiliary…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Weixia Zhang , Guangtao Zhai , Ying Wei , Xiaokang Yang , Kede Ma

Visual question answering (Visual QA) has attracted a lot of attention lately, seen essentially as a form of (visual) Turing test that artificial intelligence should strive to achieve. In this paper, we study a crucial component of this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-06-12 Wei-Lun Chao , Hexiang Hu , Fei Sha

While Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) have rapidly advanced in recent years, the prevalent issue known as the `hallucination' problem has emerged as a significant bottleneck, hindering their real-world deployments. Existing methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Fushuo Huo , Wenchao Xu , Zhong Zhang , Haozhao Wang , Zhicheng Chen , Peilin Zhao

A number of studies have found that today's Visual Question Answering (VQA) models are heavily driven by superficial correlations in the training data and lack sufficient image grounding. To encourage development of models geared towards…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-05 Aishwarya Agrawal , Dhruv Batra , Devi Parikh , Aniruddha Kembhavi

Models for Visual Question Answering (VQA) often rely on the spurious correlations, i.e., the language priors, that appear in the biased samples of training set, which make them brittle against the out-of-distribution (OOD) test data.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Qingyi Si , Yuanxin Liu , Fandong Meng , Zheng Lin , Peng Fu , Yanan Cao , Weiping Wang , Jie Zhou

Visual question answering (VQA) is an interesting learning setting for evaluating the abilities and shortcomings of current systems for image understanding. Many of the recently proposed VQA systems include attention or memory mechanisms…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-24 Allan Jabri , Armand Joulin , Laurens van der Maaten

Visual Question Answering (VQA) is the task of taking as input an image and a free-form natural language question about the image, and producing an accurate answer. In this work we view VQA as a "feature extraction" module to extract image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-09-02 Xiao Lin , Devi Parikh

Many works employed prompt tuning methods to automatically optimize prompt queries and extract the factual knowledge stored in Pretrained Language Models. In this paper, we observe that the optimized prompts, including discrete prompts and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-06-12 Yuhang Wang , Dongyuan Lu , Chao Kong , Jitao Sang

In medical imaging, particularly in early disease detection and prognosis tasks, discerning the rationale behind an AI model's predictions is crucial for evaluating the reliability of its decisions. Conventional explanation methods face…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-28 Yingying Fang , Zihao Jin , Xiaodan Xing , Simon Walsh , Guang Yang

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

We propose a simple refactoring of multi-choice question answering (MCQA) tasks as a series of binary classifications. The MCQA task is generally performed by scoring each (question, answer) pair normalized over all the pairs, and then…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Deepanway Ghosal , Navonil Majumder , Rada Mihalcea , Soujanya Poria