VQA Therapy: Exploring Answer Differences by Visually Grounding Answers
Chongyan Chen, Samreen Anjum, Danna Gurari
Abstract
Visual question answering is a task of predicting the answer to a question about an image. Given that different people can provide different answers to a visual question, we aim to better understand why with answer groundings. We introduce the first dataset that visually grounds each unique answer to each visual question, which we call VQA-AnswerTherapy. We then propose two novel problems of predicting whether a visual question has a single answer grounding and localizing all answer groundings. We benchmark modern algorithms for these novel problems to show where they succeed and struggle. The dataset and evaluation server can be found publicly at https://vizwiz.org/tasks- and-datasets/vqa-answer-therapy/.
Ask about this paper
Your agent reads all of it.
Lune indexed this paper to the last equation, along with the top-tier papers that cite it. Ask a question and the answer quotes them.
Your agent calls
Luneget_paper_fulltext
Free to start. No credit card required.
Terminal
Install the CLIlune papers fulltext 9e5628c5-41f4-467d-be2a-9d8133c6e8a8Cited by top-tier papers5
- Acknowledging Focus Ambiguity in Visual QuestionsChongyan Chen, Yu-Yun Tseng, Zhuoheng Li, Anush Venkatesh et al.ICCV 2025 · 1 citation
- What "Not" to Detect: Negation-Aware VLMs via Structured Reasoning and Token MergingInha Kang, Youngsun Lim, Seonho Lee, Jiho Choi et al.ICLR 2026 · 1 citation
- Evaluating Cross-Modal Reasoning Ability and Problem Characteristics with Multimodal Item Response TheoryShunki Uebayashi, Kento Masui, Kyohei Atarashi, Han Bao et al.ICLR 2026 · 1 citation
- Looking Beyond the One: Operationalizing and Eliciting Visual Ambiguity in VLLMsYuchong Chen, Bowei Zou, Yuhan Chen, Yifan Fan et al.ACL 2026
- VisAssist: A Visually Impaired-Captured Video Question Answering Benchmark for Assistive SystemsQi Gao, Heng Li, Yixin Zhou, Meixuan Zhou et al.AAAI 2026
Builds on10
- ViLT: Vision-and-Language Transformer Without Convolution or Region SupervisionWonjae Kim, Bokyung Son, Ildoo KimICML 2021 · 2,258 citations
- Segment Everything Everywhere All at OnceXueyan Zou, Jianwei Yang, Hao Zhang, Feng Li et al.NeurIPS 2023 · 889 citations
- Why Does a Visual Question Have Different Answers?Nilavra Bhattacharya, Qing Li, Danna GurariICCV 2019 · 78 citations
- Grounding Answers for Visual Questions Asked by Visually Impaired PeopleChongyan Chen, Samreen Anjum, Danna GurariCVPR 2022 · 48 citations
- REX: Reasoning-aware and Grounded ExplanationShi Chen, Qi ZhaoCVPR 2022 · 24 citations
Related papers
- AerialVG: A Challenging Benchmark for Aerial Visual Grounding by Exploring Positional RelationsJunli Liu, Qizhi Chen, Zhigang Wang, Yiwen Tang et al.ICCV 2025 · 5 citations
- Sentence Attention Blocks for Answer GroundingSeyedalireza Khoshsirat, Chandra KambhamettuICCV 2023 · 8 citations
- Invariant Grounding for Video Question AnsweringYicong Li, Xiang Wang, Junbin Xiao, Wei Ji et al.CVPR 2022 · 108 citations
- CommVQA: Situating Visual Question Answering in Communicative ContextsNandita Naik, Christopher Potts, Elisa KreissEMNLP 2024
- Q-Ground: Image Quality Grounding with Large Multi-modality ModelsChaofeng Chen, Sensen Yang, Haoning Wu, Liang Liao et al.ACM MM 2024 · 16 citations
