  This paper introduces speech-based visual question answering (VQA), the task
of generating an answer given an image and a spoken question. Two methods are
studied: an end-to-end, deep neural network that directly uses audio waveforms
as input versus a pipelined approach that performs ASR (Automatic Speech
Recognition) on the question, followed by text-based visual question answering.
Furthermore, we investigate the robustness of both methods by injecting various
levels of noise into the spoken question and find both methods to be tolerate
noise at similar levels.
