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Despite recent advances in video understanding, the capabilities of Large Video Language Models (LVLMs) to perform video-based causal reasoning remains underexplored, largely due to the absence of relevant and dedicated benchmarks for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-14 Pritam Sarkar , Ali Etemad

Spatial Reasoning is an important component of human cognition and is an area in which the latest Vision-language models (VLMs) show signs of difficulty. The current analysis works use image captioning tasks and visual question answering.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-10 Akshar Tumu , Parisa Kordjamshidi

Large Vision Language Models (LVLMs) have demonstrated remarkable abilities in understanding and reasoning about both visual and textual information. However, existing evaluation methods for LVLMs, primarily based on benchmarks like Visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Xinyu Wang , Bohan Zhuang , Qi Wu

Video-based spatial reasoning -- such as estimating distances, judging directions, or understanding layouts from multiple views -- requires selecting informative frames and, when needed, actively seeking additional viewpoints during…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Jiaxu Wan , Xu Wang , Mengwei Xie , Hang Zhang , Mu Xu , Yang Han , Hong Zhang , Ding Yuan , Yifan Yang

Contextual cues related to a person's pose and interactions with objects and other people in the scene can provide valuable information for gaze following. While existing methods have focused on dedicated cue extraction methods, in this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-07 Anshul Gupta , Pierre Vuillecard , Arya Farkhondeh , Jean-Marc Odobez

Recently, reasoning-based MLLMs have achieved a degree of success in generating long-form textual reasoning chains. However, they still struggle with complex tasks that necessitate dynamic and iterative focusing on and revisiting of visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Chaoya Jiang , Yongrui Heng , Wei Ye , Han Yang , Haiyang Xu , Ming Yan , Ji Zhang , Fei Huang , Shikun Zhang

Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) have shown impressive capabilities across a range of tasks that integrate visual and textual understanding, such as image captioning and visual question answering. These models are trained on large-scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Xiaomei Zhang , Hanyu Zheng , Xiangyu Zhu , Jinghuan Wei , Junhong Zou , Zhen Lei , Zhaoxiang Zhang

Vision-Language Models (VLM) exhibit strong reasoning capabilities, showing promise for end-to-end autonomous driving systems. Chain-of-Thought (CoT), as VLM's widely used reasoning strategy, is facing critical challenges. Existing textual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Lingjun Zhang , Yujian Yuan , Changjie Wu , Xinyuan Chang , Xin Cai , Shuang Zeng , Linzhe Shi , Sijin Wang , Hang Zhang , Mu Xu

The integration of Large Language Models (LLMs) into autonomous driving has attracted growing interest for their strong reasoning and semantic understanding abilities, which are essential for handling complex decision-making and long-tail…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Thomas Monninger , Shaoyuan Xie , Qi Alfred Chen , Sihao Ding

We introduce STSBench, a scenario-based framework to benchmark the holistic understanding of vision-language models (VLMs) for autonomous driving. The framework automatically mines pre-defined traffic scenarios from any dataset using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Christian Fruhwirth-Reisinger , Dušan Malić , Wei Lin , David Schinagl , Samuel Schulter , Horst Possegger

Effective and rapid evaluation of pavement surface condition is critical for prioritizing maintenance, ensuring transportation safety, and minimizing vehicle wear and tear. While conventional manual inspections suffer from subjectivity,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-10 Shuoshuo Xu , Kai Zhao , James Loney , Zili Li , Andrea Visentin

Recent advancements in autonomous driving (AD) have explored the use of vision-language models (VLMs) within visual question answering (VQA) frameworks for direct driving decision-making. However, these approaches often depend on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Xin Hu , Taotao Jing , Renran Tian , Zhengming Ding

Cooperative autonomous driving requires traffic scene understanding from both vehicle and infrastructure perspectives. While vision-language models (VLMs) show strong general reasoning capabilities, their performance in safety-critical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Rui Gan , Junyi Ma , Pei Li , Xingyou Yang , Kai Chen , Sikai Chen , Bin Ran

Spatial understanding is a critical capability for vision foundation models. While recent advances in large vision models or vision-language models (VLMs) have expanded recognition capabilities, most benchmarks emphasize localization…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Vahid Mirjalili , Ramin Giahi , Sriram Kollipara , Akshay Kekuda , Kehui Yao , Kai Zhao , Jianpeng Xu , Kaushiki Nag , Sinduja Subramaniam , Topojoy Biswas , Evren Korpeoglu , Kannan Achan

Recent Vision Language Models (VLMs) have demonstrated strong performance across a wide range of multimodal reasoning tasks. This raises the question of whether such general-purpose models can also address specialized visual recognition…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Vaclav Javorek , Jakub Honzik , Ivan Gruber , Tomas Zelezny , Marek Hruz

We introduce DriveAgent, a novel multi-agent autonomous driving framework that leverages large language model (LLM) reasoning combined with multimodal sensor fusion to enhance situational understanding and decision-making. DriveAgent…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Xinmeng Hou , Wuqi Wang , Long Yang , Hao Lin , Jinglun Feng , Haigen Min , Xiangmo Zhao

Dynamic spatial reasoning from monocular video is essential for bridging visual intelligence and the physical world, yet remains challenging for vision-language models (VLMs). Prior approaches either verbalize spatial-temporal reasoning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Zhangquan Chen , Manyuan Zhang , Xinlei Yu , Xiang An , Bo Li , Xin Xie , ZiDong Wang , Mingze Sun , Shuang Chen , Hongyu Li , Xiaobin Hu , Ruqi Huang

Spatio-temporal video grounding (STVG) aims at localizing the spatio-temporal tube of a video, as specified by the input text query. In this paper, we utilize multimodal large language models (MLLMs) to explore a zero-shot solution in STVG.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Zaiquan Yang , Yuhao Liu , Gerhard Hancke , Rynson W. H. Lau

Vision-language models (VLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in understanding and reasoning about visual content, but significant challenges persist in tasks requiring cross-viewpoint understanding and spatial reasoning. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Dingming Li , Hongxing Li , Zixuan Wang , Yuchen Yan , Hang Zhang , Siqi Chen , Guiyang Hou , Shengpei Jiang , Wenqi Zhang , Yongliang Shen , Weiming Lu , Yueting Zhuang

Recent advancements in Vision-Language (VL) research have sparked new benchmarks for complex visual reasoning, challenging models' advanced reasoning ability. Traditional Vision-Language Models (VLMs) perform well in visual perception tasks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Zhiyuan Li , Dongnan Liu , Chaoyi Zhang , Heng Wang , Tengfei Xue , Weidong Cai