XLRS-Bench: Could Your Multimodal LLMs Understand Extremely Large Ultra-High-Resolution Remote Sensing Imagery?

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Main Authors: Wang, Fengxiang, Wang, Hongzhen, Chen, Mingshuo, Wang, Di, Wang, Yulin, Guo, Zonghao, Ma, Qiang, Lan, Long, Yang, Wenjing, Zhang, Jing, Liu, Zhiyuan, Sun, Maosong
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author Wang, Fengxiang
Wang, Hongzhen
Chen, Mingshuo
Wang, Di
Wang, Yulin
Guo, Zonghao
Ma, Qiang
Lan, Long
Yang, Wenjing
Zhang, Jing
Liu, Zhiyuan
Sun, Maosong
author_facet Wang, Fengxiang
Wang, Hongzhen
Chen, Mingshuo
Wang, Di
Wang, Yulin
Guo, Zonghao
Ma, Qiang
Lan, Long
Yang, Wenjing
Zhang, Jing
Liu, Zhiyuan
Sun, Maosong
contents The astonishing breakthrough of multimodal large language models (MLLMs) has necessitated new benchmarks to quantitatively assess their capabilities, reveal their limitations, and indicate future research directions. However, this is challenging in the context of remote sensing (RS), since the imagery features ultra-high resolution that incorporates extremely complex semantic relationships. Existing benchmarks usually adopt notably smaller image sizes than real-world RS scenarios, suffer from limited annotation quality, and consider insufficient dimensions of evaluation. To address these issues, we present XLRS-Bench: a comprehensive benchmark for evaluating the perception and reasoning capabilities of MLLMs in ultra-high-resolution RS scenarios. XLRS-Bench boasts the largest average image size (8500$\times$8500) observed thus far, with all evaluation samples meticulously annotated manually, assisted by a novel semi-automatic captioner on ultra-high-resolution RS images. On top of the XLRS-Bench, 16 sub-tasks are defined to evaluate MLLMs' 10 kinds of perceptual capabilities and 6 kinds of reasoning capabilities, with a primary emphasis on advanced cognitive processes that facilitate real-world decision-making and the capture of spatiotemporal changes. The results of both general and RS-focused MLLMs on XLRS-Bench indicate that further efforts are needed for real-world RS applications. We have open-sourced XLRS-Bench to support further research in developing more powerful MLLMs for remote sensing.
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spellingShingle XLRS-Bench: Could Your Multimodal LLMs Understand Extremely Large Ultra-High-Resolution Remote Sensing Imagery?
Wang, Fengxiang
Wang, Hongzhen
Chen, Mingshuo
Wang, Di
Wang, Yulin
Guo, Zonghao
Ma, Qiang
Lan, Long
Yang, Wenjing
Zhang, Jing
Liu, Zhiyuan
Sun, Maosong
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
The astonishing breakthrough of multimodal large language models (MLLMs) has necessitated new benchmarks to quantitatively assess their capabilities, reveal their limitations, and indicate future research directions. However, this is challenging in the context of remote sensing (RS), since the imagery features ultra-high resolution that incorporates extremely complex semantic relationships. Existing benchmarks usually adopt notably smaller image sizes than real-world RS scenarios, suffer from limited annotation quality, and consider insufficient dimensions of evaluation. To address these issues, we present XLRS-Bench: a comprehensive benchmark for evaluating the perception and reasoning capabilities of MLLMs in ultra-high-resolution RS scenarios. XLRS-Bench boasts the largest average image size (8500$\times$8500) observed thus far, with all evaluation samples meticulously annotated manually, assisted by a novel semi-automatic captioner on ultra-high-resolution RS images. On top of the XLRS-Bench, 16 sub-tasks are defined to evaluate MLLMs' 10 kinds of perceptual capabilities and 6 kinds of reasoning capabilities, with a primary emphasis on advanced cognitive processes that facilitate real-world decision-making and the capture of spatiotemporal changes. The results of both general and RS-focused MLLMs on XLRS-Bench indicate that further efforts are needed for real-world RS applications. We have open-sourced XLRS-Bench to support further research in developing more powerful MLLMs for remote sensing.
title XLRS-Bench: Could Your Multimodal LLMs Understand Extremely Large Ultra-High-Resolution Remote Sensing Imagery?
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.23771