Towards Using Live Photos to Mitigate Image Quality Issues In VQA Photography

Abstract

Studies show Visual Question Answering (VQA) systems are valuable tools for people with visual impairments to quickly obtain information from an image. In this poster, we present our ongoing work towards developing uses of live photos to mitigate quality issues in photography from people with visual impairments for VQA. New contributions building on our prior research include an expanded live photos dataset, a more in-depth analysis of VQA results, and an analysis of features of our live photos compared with existing data collected from people with visual impairments. We show that live photos are a promising method for improving accuracy of VQA and that our sample live photos mimic the types of images taken in real-world settings by people with visual impairments for the task of VQA.