ROSA: Addressing text understanding challenges in photographs via ROtated SAmpling

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Hauptverfasser: Maina, Hernán, Ivetta, Guido, Stuto, Mateo Lione, Eisenschlos, Julian Martin, Sánchez, Jorge, Benotti, Luciana
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author Maina, Hernán
Ivetta, Guido
Stuto, Mateo Lione
Eisenschlos, Julian Martin
Sánchez, Jorge
Benotti, Luciana
author_facet Maina, Hernán
Ivetta, Guido
Stuto, Mateo Lione
Eisenschlos, Julian Martin
Sánchez, Jorge
Benotti, Luciana
contents Visually impaired people could benefit from Visual Question Answering (VQA) systems to interpret text in their surroundings. However, current models often struggle with recognizing text in the photos taken by this population. Through in-depth interviews with visually impaired individuals, we identified common framing conventions that frequently result in misaligned text. Existing VQA benchmarks primarily feature well-oriented text captured by sighted users, under-representing these challenges. To address this gap, we introduce ROtated SAmpling (ROSA), a decoding strategy that enhances VQA performance in text-rich images with incorrectly oriented text. ROSA outperforms Greedy decoding by 11.7 absolute points in the best-performing model.
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spellingShingle ROSA: Addressing text understanding challenges in photographs via ROtated SAmpling
Maina, Hernán
Ivetta, Guido
Stuto, Mateo Lione
Eisenschlos, Julian Martin
Sánchez, Jorge
Benotti, Luciana
Computation and Language
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Visually impaired people could benefit from Visual Question Answering (VQA) systems to interpret text in their surroundings. However, current models often struggle with recognizing text in the photos taken by this population. Through in-depth interviews with visually impaired individuals, we identified common framing conventions that frequently result in misaligned text. Existing VQA benchmarks primarily feature well-oriented text captured by sighted users, under-representing these challenges. To address this gap, we introduce ROtated SAmpling (ROSA), a decoding strategy that enhances VQA performance in text-rich images with incorrectly oriented text. ROSA outperforms Greedy decoding by 11.7 absolute points in the best-performing model.
title ROSA: Addressing text understanding challenges in photographs via ROtated SAmpling
topic Computation and Language
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.03665