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Main Authors: Góral, Gracjan, Ziarko, Alicja, Nauman, Michal, Wołczyk, Maciej
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Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.12969
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author Góral, Gracjan
Ziarko, Alicja
Nauman, Michal
Wołczyk, Maciej
author_facet Góral, Gracjan
Ziarko, Alicja
Nauman, Michal
Wołczyk, Maciej
contents Visual perspective-taking (VPT), the ability to understand the viewpoint of another person, enables individuals to anticipate the actions of other people. For instance, a driver can avoid accidents by assessing what pedestrians see. Humans typically develop this skill in early childhood, but it remains unclear whether the recently emerging Vision Language Models (VLMs) possess such capability. Furthermore, as these models are increasingly deployed in the real world, understanding how they perform nuanced tasks like VPT becomes essential. In this paper, we introduce two manually curated datasets, Isle-Bricks and Isle-Dots for testing VPT skills, and we use it to evaluate 12 commonly used VLMs. Across all models, we observe a significant performance drop when perspective-taking is required. Additionally, we find performance in object detection tasks is poorly correlated with performance on VPT tasks, suggesting that the existing benchmarks might not be sufficient to understand this problem. The code and the dataset will be available at https://sites.google.com/view/perspective-taking
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spellingShingle Seeing Through Their Eyes: Evaluating Visual Perspective Taking in Vision Language Models
Góral, Gracjan
Ziarko, Alicja
Nauman, Michal
Wołczyk, Maciej
Computation and Language
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Machine Learning
Visual perspective-taking (VPT), the ability to understand the viewpoint of another person, enables individuals to anticipate the actions of other people. For instance, a driver can avoid accidents by assessing what pedestrians see. Humans typically develop this skill in early childhood, but it remains unclear whether the recently emerging Vision Language Models (VLMs) possess such capability. Furthermore, as these models are increasingly deployed in the real world, understanding how they perform nuanced tasks like VPT becomes essential. In this paper, we introduce two manually curated datasets, Isle-Bricks and Isle-Dots for testing VPT skills, and we use it to evaluate 12 commonly used VLMs. Across all models, we observe a significant performance drop when perspective-taking is required. Additionally, we find performance in object detection tasks is poorly correlated with performance on VPT tasks, suggesting that the existing benchmarks might not be sufficient to understand this problem. The code and the dataset will be available at https://sites.google.com/view/perspective-taking
title Seeing Through Their Eyes: Evaluating Visual Perspective Taking in Vision Language Models
topic Computation and Language
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.12969