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Main Authors: Pham, Tan-Hanh, Le, Hoang-Nam, Nguyen, Phu-Vinh, Ngo, Chris, Hy, Truong-Son
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Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.16771
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author Pham, Tan-Hanh
Le, Hoang-Nam
Nguyen, Phu-Vinh
Ngo, Chris
Hy, Truong-Son
author_facet Pham, Tan-Hanh
Le, Hoang-Nam
Nguyen, Phu-Vinh
Ngo, Chris
Hy, Truong-Son
contents Visual Language Models have demonstrated remarkable capabilities across tasks, including visual question answering and image captioning. However, most models rely on text-based instructions, limiting their effectiveness in human-machine interactions. Moreover, the quality of language models depends on reasoning and prompting techniques, such as COT, which remain underexplored when using speech instructions. To address these challenges, we propose SilVar, a novel end-to-end multimodal model that uses speech instructions for reasoning in visual question answering. In addition, we investigate reasoning techniques with levels including conversational, simple, and complex speech instruction. SilVar is built upon CLIP, Whisper, and LLaMA 3.1-8B, enabling intuitive interactions by allowing users to provide verbal or text instructions. To this end, we introduce a dataset designed to challenge models with speech-based reasoning tasks for object localization. This dataset enhances the model ability to process and explain visual scenes from spoken input, moving beyond object recognition to reasoning-based interactions. The experiments show that SilVar achieves SOTA performance on the MMMU and ScienceQA benchmarks despite the challenge of speech-based instructions. We believe SilVar will inspire next-generation multimodal reasoning models, toward expert artificial general intelligence. Our code and dataset are available here.
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spellingShingle SilVar: Speech Driven Multimodal Model for Reasoning Visual Question Answering and Object Localization
Pham, Tan-Hanh
Le, Hoang-Nam
Nguyen, Phu-Vinh
Ngo, Chris
Hy, Truong-Son
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Visual Language Models have demonstrated remarkable capabilities across tasks, including visual question answering and image captioning. However, most models rely on text-based instructions, limiting their effectiveness in human-machine interactions. Moreover, the quality of language models depends on reasoning and prompting techniques, such as COT, which remain underexplored when using speech instructions. To address these challenges, we propose SilVar, a novel end-to-end multimodal model that uses speech instructions for reasoning in visual question answering. In addition, we investigate reasoning techniques with levels including conversational, simple, and complex speech instruction. SilVar is built upon CLIP, Whisper, and LLaMA 3.1-8B, enabling intuitive interactions by allowing users to provide verbal or text instructions. To this end, we introduce a dataset designed to challenge models with speech-based reasoning tasks for object localization. This dataset enhances the model ability to process and explain visual scenes from spoken input, moving beyond object recognition to reasoning-based interactions. The experiments show that SilVar achieves SOTA performance on the MMMU and ScienceQA benchmarks despite the challenge of speech-based instructions. We believe SilVar will inspire next-generation multimodal reasoning models, toward expert artificial general intelligence. Our code and dataset are available here.
title SilVar: Speech Driven Multimodal Model for Reasoning Visual Question Answering and Object Localization
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.16771