CRIC: A VQA Dataset for Compositional Reasoning on Vision and Commonsense

Abstract: Alternatively inferring on the visual facts and commonsense is fundamental for an advanced VQA system. This ability requires models to go beyond the literal understanding of commonsense. The system should not just treat objects as the entrance to query background knowledge, but fully ground commonsense to the visual world and imagine the possible relationships between objects, e.g., "fork, can lift, food". To comprehensively evaluate such abilities, we propose a VQA benchmark, CRIC, which introduces new types of questions about Compositional Reasoning on vIsion and Commonsense, and an evaluation metric integrating the correctness of answering and commonsense grounding. To collect such questions and rich additional annotations to support the metric, we also propose an automatic algorithm to generate question samples from the scene graph associated with the images and the relevant knowledge graph. We further analyze several representative types of VQA models on the CRIC dataset. Experimental results show that grounding the commonsense to the image region and joint reasoning on vision and commonsense are still challenging for current approaches. The dataset is available at https://cricvqa.github.io.