Thank you to the award committee and the broader vision community for the recognition. After all these (21!) years and so many conferences across sub-disciplines in AI, the vision community continues to feel like home.
What makes this extra special is that the original VQA paper, where we first introduced the VQA task and v1 of the dataset, was published at ICCV, exactly 10 years ago!
“We propose the task of free-form and open-ended Visual Question Answering (VQA). Given an image and a natural language question about the image, the task is to provide an accurate natural language answer….” It is quite simply ridiculous how far the field has come since!
Congratulations to all the VQA authors, and the VQA challenge + workshop organizers over the years! GG :)
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