Proceedings of the IoT AND LiDAR Technologies in Healthcare Workshop (ILTH 2024)

Enabling Multimodal Understanding: Lidar Data Meets VQA

Authors
Muhammad Zeeshan Khan1, Anuroop Gaddam1, *, Dhananjay Thiruvady1, N. K. Suryadevara2
1School of Information Technology, Deakin University, Geelong, VIC, 3216, Australia
2University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, India
*Corresponding author. Email: anuroop.gaddam@deakin.edu.au
Corresponding Author
Anuroop Gaddam
Available Online 28 July 2025.
DOI
10.2991/978-94-6463-784-7_11How to use a DOI?
Keywords
LiDAR; Visual Question Answering (VQA); VQA Applications; Multimodality; Computer Vision; Natural Language Processing
Abstract

This chapter explores the integration of Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) data with multimodal systems such as Visual Question Answering (VQA) to enable robust contextual understanding. The chapter begins with an overview of VQA, including its architecture, various modeling approaches, and practical applications. The chapter then introduces LiDAR data, particularly point clouds, and highlights how this 3D information enhances traditional visual input in machine learning tasks. Special attention is given to recent efforts in combining point cloud data with VQA, examining relevant datasets, deep learning models, and fusion techniques. The chapter concludes by outlining current limitations and future directions for advancing LiDAR-based multimodal understanding in VQA.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the IoT AND LiDAR Technologies in Healthcare Workshop (ILTH 2024)
Series
Atlantis Highlights in Intelligent Systems
Publication Date
28 July 2025
ISBN
978-94-6463-784-7
ISSN
2589-4919
DOI
10.2991/978-94-6463-784-7_11How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2025 The Author(s)
Open Access
Open Access This chapter is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits any noncommercial use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license and indicate if changes were made.

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