Post-processing in VQA 2.0 Evaluation

[Igor Sterner]

Hello, I am building a VQA system and am seeking clarification for a condition in the vqaEval.py script.

if len(set(gtAnswers)) > 1:
    for ansDic in gts[quesId]['answers']:
        ansDic['answer'] = self.processPunctuation(ansDic['answer'])
        ansDic['answer'] = self.processDigitArticle(ansDic['answer'])
    resAns = self.processPunctuation(resAns)
    resAns = self.processDigitArticle(resAns)

The above condition is placed before running standard post-processing on predictions in line 98. My understanding is that this translates to: 'if all the human annotators agree, don't do any post-processing. However, my system is producing some variation in outputs in these cases, such as 'yes!' rather than 'yes'. Of course I can do my own post-processing, but I was wondering if you might offer some insight into the rationale behind the above condition?

Many thanks!

[Aishwarya Agrawal]

Hi Igor, My understanding is that this translates to: 'if all the human annotators

agree, don't do any post-processing

Yes, this is correct! And if I remember correctly, the rationale was to not preprocess answers to questions requiring OCR, so questions asking about text written in some part of the image. Best, Aishwarya

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