CommVQA: Situating Visual Question Answering in Communicative Contexts

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Autori principali: Naik, Nandita Shankar, Potts, Christopher, Kreiss, Elisa
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author Naik, Nandita Shankar
Potts, Christopher
Kreiss, Elisa
author_facet Naik, Nandita Shankar
Potts, Christopher
Kreiss, Elisa
contents Current visual question answering (VQA) models tend to be trained and evaluated on image-question pairs in isolation. However, the questions people ask are dependent on their informational needs and prior knowledge about the image content. To evaluate how situating images within naturalistic contexts shapes visual questions, we introduce CommVQA, a VQA dataset consisting of images, image descriptions, real-world communicative scenarios where the image might appear (e.g., a travel website), and follow-up questions and answers conditioned on the scenario and description. CommVQA, which contains 1000 images and 8,949 question-answer pairs, poses a challenge for current models. Error analyses and a human-subjects study suggest that generated answers still contain high rates of hallucinations, fail to fittingly address unanswerable questions, and don't suitably reflect contextual information. Overall, we show that access to contextual information is essential for solving CommVQA, leading to the highest performing VQA model and highlighting the relevance of situating systems within communicative scenarios.
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spellingShingle CommVQA: Situating Visual Question Answering in Communicative Contexts
Naik, Nandita Shankar
Potts, Christopher
Kreiss, Elisa
Computation and Language
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Current visual question answering (VQA) models tend to be trained and evaluated on image-question pairs in isolation. However, the questions people ask are dependent on their informational needs and prior knowledge about the image content. To evaluate how situating images within naturalistic contexts shapes visual questions, we introduce CommVQA, a VQA dataset consisting of images, image descriptions, real-world communicative scenarios where the image might appear (e.g., a travel website), and follow-up questions and answers conditioned on the scenario and description. CommVQA, which contains 1000 images and 8,949 question-answer pairs, poses a challenge for current models. Error analyses and a human-subjects study suggest that generated answers still contain high rates of hallucinations, fail to fittingly address unanswerable questions, and don't suitably reflect contextual information. Overall, we show that access to contextual information is essential for solving CommVQA, leading to the highest performing VQA model and highlighting the relevance of situating systems within communicative scenarios.
title CommVQA: Situating Visual Question Answering in Communicative Contexts
topic Computation and Language
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.15002