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Recent work has shown that Vision-Language Models (VLMs) used for optical character recognition (OCR) can generate plausible but visually unsupported text, suggesting reliance on language priors. Comparing open-weight VLMs with traditional…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Antonia Karamolegkou , Nicolas Angleraud , Benoît Sagot , Thibault Clérice

Most production-level deployments for Visual Question Answering (VQA) tasks are still build as processing pipelines of independent steps including image pre-processing, object- and text detection, Optical Character Recognition (OCR) and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-29 Bianca Lamm , Janis Keuper

Advancements in Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) have demonstrated promising performance in a variety of vision-language tasks involving image-conditioned free-form text generation. However, growing concerns about hallucinations in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-03 Zhuohang Li , Chao Yan , Nicholas J. Jackson , Wendi Cui , Bo Li , Jiaxin Zhang , Bradley A. Malin

Scene Graph Generation (SGG) encodes visual relationships between objects in images as graph structures. Thanks to the advances of Vision-Language Models (VLMs), the task of Open-Vocabulary SGG has been recently proposed where models are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Maëlic Neau , Zoe Falomir , Cédric Buche , Akihiro Sugimoto

Existing benchmarks for visual question answering lack in visual grounding and complexity, particularly in evaluating spatial reasoning skills. We introduce FlowVQA, a novel benchmark aimed at assessing the capabilities of visual…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-01 Shubhankar Singh , Purvi Chaurasia , Yerram Varun , Pranshu Pandya , Vatsal Gupta , Vivek Gupta , Dan Roth

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) struggle with precise reasoning for structured visuals like charts and diagrams, as pixel-based perception lacks a mechanism for verification. To address this, we propose to leverage derendering --…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Junhong Shen , Mu Cai , Bo Hu , Ameet Talwalkar , David A Ross , Cordelia Schmid , Alireza Fathi

We propose general visual inspection model using Vision-Language Model~(VLM) with few-shot images of non-defective or defective products, along with explanatory texts that serve as inspection criteria. Although existing VLM exhibit high…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-14 Shiryu Ueno , Yoshikazu Hayashi , Shunsuke Nakatsuka , Yusei Yamada , Hiroaki Aizawa , Kunihito Kato

Despite the rapid advancements in Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs), a critical question regarding their visual grounding mechanism remains unanswered: do these models genuinely ``read'' text embedded in images, or do they merely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Yibo Peng , Peng Xia , Ding Zhong , Kaide Zeng , Siwei Han , Yiyang Zhou , Jiaqi Liu , Ruiyi Zhang , Huaxiu Yao

Recent advances in Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have enabled automated generation of structured layouts from natural language descriptions. Existing methods typically follow a code-only paradigm that generates code to represent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Junrong Guo , Shancheng Fang , Yadong Qu , Hongtao Xie

360-degree/omnidirectional images (OIs) have achieved remarkable attentions due to the increasing applications of virtual reality (VR). Compared to conventional 2D images, OIs can provide more immersive experience to consumers, benefitting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-24 Wei Zhou , Jiahua Xu , Qiuping Jiang , Zhibo Chen

We propose VC-Inspector, a lightweight, open-source large multimodal model (LMM) for reference-free evaluation of video captions, with a focus on factual accuracy. Unlike existing metrics that suffer from limited context handling, weak…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Shubhashis Roy Dipta , Tz-Ying Wu , Subarna Tripathi

Recent multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have shown promising performance on video quality assessment (VQA) tasks. However, adapting them to new scenarios remains expensive due to large-scale retraining and costly mean opinion score…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Xinyue Li , Shubo Xu , Zhichao Zhang , Zhaolin Cai , Yitong Chen , Guangtao Zhai

While large language models (LLMs) and coding agents are often applied to user interface (UI) development, developers find it difficult to reliably assess their proficiency in visual and interaction design. Existing evaluations either rely…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Jason Wu , Priyan Vaithilingam , Eldon Schoop , Jeffrey Nichols , Titus Barik

We introduce FaithScore (Faithfulness to Atomic Image Facts Score), a reference-free and fine-grained evaluation metric that measures the faithfulness of the generated free-form answers from large vision-language models (LVLMs). The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-30 Liqiang Jing , Ruosen Li , Yunmo Chen , Xinya Du

Multiple Choice Question Answering (MCQA) benchmarks are an established standard for measuring Vision Language Model (VLM) performance in driving tasks. However, we observe the known phenomenon that synthetically generated MCQAs are highly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Sutej Kulgod , Sean Ye , Sanchit Tanwar , Christoffer Heckman

Text-to-image generation and text-guided image manipulation have received considerable attention in the field of image generation tasks. However, the mainstream evaluation methods for these tasks have difficulty in evaluating whether all…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-18 Mizuki Miyamoto , Ryugo Morita , Jinjia Zhou

Modern vision-language models (VLMs) can act as generative OCR engines, yet open-ended decoding can expose rare but consequential failures. We identify a core deployment misalignment in generative OCR. Autoregressive decoding favors…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Weile Gong , Yiping Zuo , Zijian Lu , Xin He , Weibei Fan , Lianyong Qi , Shi Jin

The rapid advancement of generative models has led to a growing volume of AI-generated videos, making the automatic quality assessment of such videos increasingly important. Existing AI-generated content video quality assessment (AIGC-VQA)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Minghao Zou , Gen Liu , Guanghui Yue , Baoquan Zhao , Zhihua Wang , Paul L. Rosin , Hantao Liu , Wei Zhou

Numerous single-image super-resolution algorithms have been proposed in the literature, but few studies address the problem of performance evaluation based on visual perception. While most super-resolution images are evaluated by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-12-20 Chao Ma , Chih-Yuan Yang , Xiaokang Yang , Ming-Hsuan Yang

We introduce a novel evaluation framework for Large Language Models (LLMs) such as \textsc{Llama-2} and \textsc{Mistral}, focusing on importing Precision and Recall metrics from image generation to text generation. This approach allows for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Florian Le Bronnec , Alexandre Verine , Benjamin Negrevergne , Yann Chevaleyre , Alexandre Allauzen