4 papers
Say It My Way: Exploring Control in Conversational Visual Question Answering with Blind Users
Farnaz Zamiri Zeraati, Yang Trista Cao, Yuehan Qiao +2
Prompting and steering techniques are well established in general-purpose generative AI, yet assistive visual question answering (VQA) tools for blind users still follow rigid inte…
Beyond Blanket Masking: Examining Granularity for Privacy Protection in Images Captured by Blind and Low Vision Users
Jeffri Murrugarra-LLerena, Haoran Niu, K. Suzanne Barber +3
As visual assistant systems powered by visual language models (VLMs) become more prevalent, concerns over user privacy have grown, particularly for blind and low vision users who m…
Toxicity Detection is NOT all you Need: Measuring the Gaps to Supporting Volunteer Content Moderators
Yang Trista Cao, Lovely-Frances Domingo, Sarah Ann Gilbert +3
Extensive efforts in automated approaches for content moderation have been focused on developing models to identify toxic, offensive, and hateful content with the aim of lightening…
Natural Language Inference Improves Compositionality in Vision-Language Models
Paola Cascante-Bonilla, Yu Hou, Yang Trista Cao +2
Compositional reasoning in Vision-Language Models (VLMs) remains challenging as these models often struggle to relate objects, attributes, and spatial relationships. Recent methods…