The primary goal of this workshop is two-fold. First is to benchmark progress in Visual Question Answering and Visual Dialog.

Visual Question Answering
There will be three tracks in the Visual Question Answering Challenge this year.


• VQA 2.0: This track is the 4th challenge on the VQA v2.0 dataset introduced in Goyal et al., CVPR 2017. The 2nd and 3rd editions were organised at CVPR 2017 and CVPR 2018 on the VQA v2.0 dataset, and the 1st edition was organised at CVPR 2016 on the VQA v1.0 dataset introduced in Antol et al., ICCV 2015. VQA v2.0 is more balanced and reduces language biases over VQA v1.0, and is about twice the size of VQA v1.0.
  
  Challenge link: https://visualqa.org/challenge
  Evaluation Server: https://evalai.cloudcv.org/web/challenges/challenge-page/163/overview
  Submission Deadline: May 10, 2019 23:59:59 GMT


• TextVQA: This track is the 1st challenge on the TextVQA dataset introduced in Singh et al., 2019. TextVQA requires algorithms to look at an image, read text in the image, reason about it, and answer a given question.
  
  Challenge link: https://textvqa.org/challenge
  Evaluation Server: https://evalai.cloudcv.org/web/challenges/challenge-page/244/overview
  Submission Deadline: May 27, 2019 23:59:59 GMT [Extended]


• GQA: This track is the 1st challenge on the GQA dataset introduced in Hudson et al., 2019. GQA is a new dataset that focuses on real-world compositional reasoning. The dataset contains 20M image and question pairs, each of them comes with an underlying structured representation of their semantics. The dataset is complemented with a suite of new evaluation metrics to test consistency, validity and grounding. To know more about GQA, visit https://visualreasoning.org.
  
  Challenge link: https://cs.stanford.edu/people/dorarad/gqa/challenge.html
  Evaluation Server: https://evalai.cloudcv.org/web/challenges/challenge-page/225/overview
  Submission Deadline: May 15, 2019 23:59:59 GMT

Visual Dialog

• The 2nd edition of the Visual Dialog Challenge will be hosted on the VisDial v1.0 dataset introduced in Das et al., CVPR 2017. The 1st edition of the Visual Dialog Challenge was organised on the VisDial v1.0 dataset at ECCV 2018. See leaderboard and analysis here. Visual Dialog requires an AI agent to hold a meaningful dialog with humans in natural, conversational language about visual content. Specifically, given an image, a dialog history (consisting of the image caption and a sequence of previous questions and answers), the agent has to answer a follow-up question in the dialog.
  
  Challenge link: https://visualdialog.org/challenge
  Evaluation Server: https://evalai.cloudcv.org/web/challenges/challenge-page/161/overview
  Submission Deadline: May 18, 2019 23:59:59 GMT

The second goal of this workshop is to continue to bring together researchers interested in visually-grounded question answering, dialog systems, and language in general to share state-of-the-art approaches, best practices, and future directions in multi-modal AI. In addition to invited talks from established researchers, we invite submissions of extended abstracts of at most 2 pages describing work in the relevant areas including: Visual Question Answering, Visual Dialog, (Textual) Question Answering, (Textual) Dialog Systems, Commonsense knowledge, Vision + Language, etc. All accepted abstracts will be presented as posters at the workshop to disseminate ideas. The workshop is on June 17th, 2019, at the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2019.

Prizes
The winning team of each track will receive Google Cloud Platform credits worth $10k!

The physical dimensions of the poster stands that will be available this year are 8 feet wide by 4 feet high. Please review the reference poster template for more details on how to prepare your poster. You do NOT have to use this template, but please read the instructions carefully and prepare your posters accordingly.

We invite submissions of extended abstracts of at most 2 pages describing work in areas such as: Visual Question Answering, Visual Dialog, (Textual) Question Answering, (Textual) Dialog Systems, Commonsense knowledge, Video Question Answering, Video Dialog, Vision + Language, and Vision + Language + Action (Embodied Agents). Accepted submissions will be presented as posters at the workshop. The extended abstract should follow the CVPR formatting guidelines and be emailed as a single PDF to the email id mentioned below. Please use the following LaTeX/Word templates.

Dual Submissions
We encourage submissions of relevant work that has been previously published, or is to be presented at the main conference. The accepted abstracts will not appear in the official IEEE proceedings.

Where to Submit?
Please send your abstracts to visualqa.workshop@gmail.com