Multimodal question answering

Multimodal question answering (Multimodal QA) is a class of deep-learning methods that answer natural-language questions by jointly reasoning over information from multiple modalities — most commonly text and images, but also video, audio, and structured tables. Introduced prominently through the VQA benchmark in 2015, it has since expanded into a broad research area powering document understanding, medical diagnosis assistance, and embodied AI.