Vision And Text Transformer For Predicting Answerability On Visual Question Answering

arXiv:2609.16565 · cs.CV, cs.AI · Submitted 2026-09-15 · Read on arXiv

cs.CV, cs.AI

Submitted: 2026-09-15

Updated: 2026-09-15

DOI: 10.1109/ICIP42928.2021.9506796

License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

The gist: Answerability on Visual Question Answering is a novel and attractive task to predict answerable scores between images and questions in multi-modal data.

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Answerability on Visual Question Answering is a novel and attractive task to predict answerable scores between images and questions in multi-modal data. Existing works often utilize a binary mapping from visual question answering systems into Answerability. It does not reflect the essence of this problem. Together with our consideration of Answerability in a regression task, we propose VT-Transformer, which exploits visual and textual features through Transformer architecture. Experimental results on VizWiz 2020 dataset show the effectiveness and robustness of VT-Transformer for Answerability on Visual Question Answering when comparing with competitive baselines.

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