A curated list of Visual Question Answering(VQA)(Image/Video Question Answering),Visual Question Generation ,Visual Dialog ,Visual Commonsense Reasoning and related area.

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- [Paper Name](link) - Author 1 et al, **Conference Year**. [[code]](link)

• Mar.3rd,2019 The Fist version released.

• Contributing
• Change Log
• Table of Contents
• Papers
  • Survey
  • 2019
  • 2018
    • NIPS 2018
    • AAAI 2018
    • IJCAI 2018
    • CVPR 2018
    • ACM MM 2018
    • ECCV 2018
    • OTHER
  • 2017-2015
    • OTHER
    • ICCV 2017
• VQA Challenge Leaderboard
  • test-std 2018
  • test-std 2017
• Licenses
• Reference and Acknowledgement

• Visual question answering: Datasets, algorithms, and future challenges - Kushal Kafle et al, CVIU 2017.
• Visual question answering: A survey of methods and datasets - Qi Wu et al, CVIU 2017.

• Combining Multiple Cues for Visual Madlibs Question Answering - Tatiana Tommasi et al, IJCV 2019. [code]
• Differential Networks for Visual Question Answering - Chenfei Wu et al, AAAI 2019. [code]
• BLOCK: Bilinear Superdiagonal Fusion for Visual Question Answering and Visual Relationship Detection - Hedi Ben-younes et al, AAAI 2019. [code]
• Dynamic Capsule Attention for Visual Question Answering - Yiyi Zhou et al, AAAI 2019. [code]
• Structured Two-stream Attention Network for Video Question Answering - Lianli Gao et al, AAAI 2019. [code]
• Beyond RNNs: Positional Self-Attention with Co-Attention for Video Question Answering - Xiangpeng Li et al, AAAI 2019. [code]
• WK-VQA: World Knowledge-enabled Visual Question Answering - Sanket Shah et al, AAAI 2019. [code]

• Bilinear Attention Networks - Jin-Hwa Kim et al, NIPS 2018. [code]
• Chain of Reasoning for Visual Question Answering - Chenfei Wu et al, NIPS 2018. [code]
• Learning Conditioned Graph Structures for Interpretable Visual Question Answering - Will Norcliffe-Brown et al, NIPS 2018. [code]
• Learning to Specialize with Knowledge Distillation for Visual Question Answering - Jonghwan Mun et al, NIPS 2018. [code]
• Out of the Box: Reasoning with Graph Convolution Nets for Factual Visual Question Answering - Medhini Narasimhan et al, NIPS 2018. [code]
• Overcoming Language Priors in Visual Question Answering with Adversarial Regularization - Sainandan Ramakrishnan et al, NIPS 2018. [code]

• Explicit Reasoning over End-to-End Neural Architectures for Visual Question Answering - Somak Aditya et al, AAAI 2018. [code]
• Co-Attending Free-Form Regions and Detections with Multi-Modal Multiplicative Feature Embedding for Visual Question Answering - Pan Lu et al, AAAI 2018. [code]
• Exploring Human-Like Attention Supervision in Visual Question Answering - Somak Aditya et al, AAAI 2018. [code]
• Movie Question Answering: Remembering the Textual Cues for Layered Visual Contents - Bo Wang et al, AAAI 2018. [code]

• Feature Enhancement in Attention for Visual Question Answering - Yuetan Lin et al, IJCAI 2018. [code]
• A Question Type Driven Framework to Diversify Visual Question Generation - Zhihao Fan et al, IJCAI 2018. [code]
• Multi-Turn Video Question Answering via Multi-Stream Hierarchical Attention Context Network - Zhou Zhao et al, IJCAI 2018. [code]
• Open-Ended Long-form Video Question Answering via Adaptive Hierarchical Reinforced Networks - Zhou Zhao et al, IJCAI 2018. [code]

• Bottom-Up and Top-Down Attention for Image Captioning and Visual Question Answering - Peter Anderson et al, CVPR 2018. [code(author)] [code(pythiaV0.1)] [code(Pytorch Reimplementation)]
• Tips and Tricks for Visual Question Answering: Learnings From the 2017 Challenge - Damien Teney et al, CVPR 2018. [code]
• Learning by Asking Questions - Ishan Misra et al, CVPR 2018. [code]
• Embodied Question Answering - Abhishek Das et al, CVPR 2018. [code]
• VizWiz Grand Challenge: Answering Visual Questions From Blind People - Danna Gurari et al, CVPR 2018. [code]
• Textbook Question Answering Under Instructor Guidance With Memory Networks - Juzheng Li et al, CVPR 2018. [code]
• IQA: Visual Question Answering in Interactive Environments - Daniel Gordon et al, CVPR 2018. [sample video]
• Don't Just Assume; Look and Answer: Overcoming Priors for Visual Question Answering - Aishwarya Agrawal et al, CVPR 2018. [code]
• Learning Answer Embeddings for Visual Question Answering - Hexiang Hu et al, CVPR 2018. [code]
• DVQA: Understanding Data Visualizations via Question Answering - Kushal Kafle et al, CVPR 2018. [code]
• Cross-Dataset Adaptation for Visual Question Answering - Wei-Lun Chao et al, CVPR 2018. [code]
• Two Can Play This Game: Visual Dialog With Discriminative Question Generation and Answering - Unnat Jain et al, CVPR 2018. [code]
• Improved Fusion of Visual and Language Representations by Dense Symmetric Co-Attention for Visual Question Answering - Duy-Kien Nguyen et al, CVPR 2018. [code]
• Visual Question Generation as Dual Task of Visual Question Answering - Yikang Li et al, CVPR 2018. [code]
• Focal Visual-Text Attention for Visual Question Answering - Junwei Liang et al, CVPR 2018. [code]
• Motion-Appearance Co-Memory Networks for Video Question Answering - Jiyang Gao et al, CVPR 2018. [code]
• Visual Question Answering With Memory-Augmented Networks - Chao Ma et al, CVPR 2018. [code]
• Visual Question Reasoning on General Dependency Tree - Qingxing Cao et al, CVPR 2018. [code]
• Differential Attention for Visual Question Answering - Badri Patro et al, CVPR 2018. [code]
• Learning Visual Knowledge Memory Networks for Visual Question Answering - Zhou Su et al, CVPR 2018. [code]
• IVQA: Inverse Visual Question Answering - Feng Liu et al, CVPR 2018. [code]
• Customized Image Narrative Generation via Interactive Visual Question Generation and Answering - Andrew Shin et al, CVPR 2018. [code]

• Object-Difference Attention: A simple relational attention for Visual Question Answering - Chenfei Wu et al, ACM MM 2018. [code]
• Enhancing Visual Question Answering Using Dropout - Zhiwei Fang et al, ACM MM 2018. [code]
• Fast Parameter Adaptation for Few-shot Image Captioning and Visual Question Answering - Xuanyi Dong et al, ACM MM 2018. [code]
• Explore Multi-Step Reasoning in Video Question Answering - Xiaomeng Song et al, ACM MM 2018. [code] [SVQA dataset]

• Visual Question Answering as a Meta Learning Task - Damien Teney et al, ECCV 2018. [code]
• Question-Guided Hybrid Convolution for Visual Question Answering - Peng Gao et al, ECCV 2018. [code]
• Goal-Oriented Visual Question Generation via Intermediate Rewards - Junjie Zhang et al, ECCV 2018. [code]
• Multimodal Dual Attention Memory for Video Story Question Answering - Kyung-Min Kim et al, ECCV 2018. [code]
• A Joint Sequence Fusion Model for Video Question Answering and Retrieval - Youngjae Yu et al, ECCV 2018. [code]
• Deep Attention Neural Tensor Network for Visual Question Answering - Yalong Bai et al, ECCV 2018. [code]
• Question Type Guided Attention in Visual Question Answering - Yang Shi et al, ECCV 2018. [code]
• Learning Visual Question Answering by Bootstrapping Hard Attention - Mateusz Malinowski et al, ECCV 2018. [code]
• Straight to the Facts: Learning Knowledge Base Retrieval for Factual Visual Question Answering - Medhini Narasimhan et al, ECCV 2018. [code]
• Visual Question Generation for Class Acquisition of Unknown Objects - Kohei Uehara et al, ECCV 2018. [code]

• Image Captioning and Visual Question Answering Based on Attributes and External Knowledge - Qi Wu et al, TPAMI 2018. [code]
• FVQA: Fact-Based Visual Question Answering - Peng Wang et al, TPAMI 2018. [code]
• R-VQA: Learning Visual Relation Facts with Semantic Attention for Visual Question Answering - Pan Lu et al, SIGKDD 2018. [code(Dataset)]
• Interpretable Counting for Visual Question Answering - Alexander Trott et al, ICLR 2018. [code]
• Learning to Count Objects in Natural Images for Visual Question Answering - Yan Zhang et al, ICLR 2018. [code]
• A Better Way to Attend: Attention With Trees for Video Question Answering - Hongyang Xue et al, TIP 2018. [code]
• Zero-Shot Transfer VQA Dataset - Pan Lu et al, arxiv preprint. [code]

Please check the other papers list from VQA area between 2017-2015 in awesome-vqa from JamesChuanggg,it seems that he hasn't maintained that project for a long time.Really appreciate for his work.I will merge his work to this list in the future.Stay tuned...

• Learning to Reason: End-to-End Module Networks for Visual Question Answering - Ronghang Hu et al, ICCV 2017. [code]
• Structured Attentions for Visual Question Answering - Chen Zhu et al, ICCV 2017. [code]
• VQS: Linking Segmentations to Questions and Answers for Supervised Attention in VQA and Question-Focused Semantic Segmentation - Chuang Gan et al, ICCV 2017. [code]
• Multi-modal Factorized Bilinear Pooling with Co-attention Learning for Visual Question Answering - Zhou Yu et al, ICCV 2017. [code]
• An Analysis of Visual Question Answering Algorithms - Kushal Kafle et al, ICCV 2017. [code]
• MUTAN: Multimodal Tucker Fusion for Visual Question Answering - Hedi Ben-younes et al, ICCV 2017. [code]
• MarioQA: Answering Questions by Watching Gameplay Videos - Jonghwan Mun et al, ICCV 2017. [code]
• Learning to Disambiguate by Asking Discriminative Questions - Yining Li et al, ICCV 2017. [code]

I will collect the leaderboard's implementations in the future.Stay tuned...

• VQA Challenge 2018 Leaderboard in EvalAI

• VQA Challenge 2017(Open-Ended) Leaderboard in EvalAI

To the extent possible under law, Jokie Leung has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this work.

• awesome-image-captioning from Zhihong Chen
• awesome-vqa from JamesChuanggg

Really appreciate for there contributions in this area.