Seeing from Another Perspective: Evaluating Multi-View Understanding in MLLMs

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Main Authors: Yeh, Chun-Hsiao, Wang, Chenyu, Tong, Shengbang, Cheng, Ta-Ying, Wang, Ruoyu, Chu, Tianzhe, Zhai, Yuexiang, Chen, Yubei, Gao, Shenghua, Ma, Yi
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author Yeh, Chun-Hsiao
Wang, Chenyu
Tong, Shengbang
Cheng, Ta-Ying
Wang, Ruoyu
Chu, Tianzhe
Zhai, Yuexiang
Chen, Yubei
Gao, Shenghua
Ma, Yi
author_facet Yeh, Chun-Hsiao
Wang, Chenyu
Tong, Shengbang
Cheng, Ta-Ying
Wang, Ruoyu
Chu, Tianzhe
Zhai, Yuexiang
Chen, Yubei
Gao, Shenghua
Ma, Yi
contents Multi-view understanding, the ability to reconcile visual information across diverse viewpoints for effective navigation, manipulation, and 3D scene comprehension, is a fundamental challenge in Multi-Modal Large Language Models (MLLMs) to be used as embodied agents. While recent MLLMs have shown impressive advances in high-level reasoning and planning, they frequently fall short when confronted with multi-view geometric consistency and cross-view correspondence. To comprehensively evaluate the challenges of MLLMs in multi-view scene reasoning, we propose All-Angles Bench, a benchmark of over 2,100 human carefully annotated multi-view question-answer pairs across 90 diverse real-world scenes. Our six tasks (counting, attribute identification, relative distance, relative direction, object manipulation, and camera pose estimation) specifically test model's geometric correspondence and the capacity to align information consistently across views. Our extensive experiments, benchmark on 27 representative MLLMs including Gemini-2.0-Flash, Claude-3.7-Sonnet, and GPT-4o against human evaluators reveals a substantial performance gap, indicating that current MLLMs remain far from human-level proficiency. Through in-depth analysis, we show that MLLMs are particularly underperforming under two aspects: (1) cross-view correspondence for partially occluded views and (2) establishing the coarse camera poses. These findings highlight the necessity of domain-specific refinements or modules that embed stronger multi-view awareness. We believe that our All-Angles Bench offers valuable insights and contribute to bridging the gap between MLLMs and human-level multi-view understanding. The project and benchmark are publicly available at https://danielchyeh.github.io/All-Angles-Bench/.
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spellingShingle Seeing from Another Perspective: Evaluating Multi-View Understanding in MLLMs
Yeh, Chun-Hsiao
Wang, Chenyu
Tong, Shengbang
Cheng, Ta-Ying
Wang, Ruoyu
Chu, Tianzhe
Zhai, Yuexiang
Chen, Yubei
Gao, Shenghua
Ma, Yi
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Computation and Language
Multi-view understanding, the ability to reconcile visual information across diverse viewpoints for effective navigation, manipulation, and 3D scene comprehension, is a fundamental challenge in Multi-Modal Large Language Models (MLLMs) to be used as embodied agents. While recent MLLMs have shown impressive advances in high-level reasoning and planning, they frequently fall short when confronted with multi-view geometric consistency and cross-view correspondence. To comprehensively evaluate the challenges of MLLMs in multi-view scene reasoning, we propose All-Angles Bench, a benchmark of over 2,100 human carefully annotated multi-view question-answer pairs across 90 diverse real-world scenes. Our six tasks (counting, attribute identification, relative distance, relative direction, object manipulation, and camera pose estimation) specifically test model's geometric correspondence and the capacity to align information consistently across views. Our extensive experiments, benchmark on 27 representative MLLMs including Gemini-2.0-Flash, Claude-3.7-Sonnet, and GPT-4o against human evaluators reveals a substantial performance gap, indicating that current MLLMs remain far from human-level proficiency. Through in-depth analysis, we show that MLLMs are particularly underperforming under two aspects: (1) cross-view correspondence for partially occluded views and (2) establishing the coarse camera poses. These findings highlight the necessity of domain-specific refinements or modules that embed stronger multi-view awareness. We believe that our All-Angles Bench offers valuable insights and contribute to bridging the gap between MLLMs and human-level multi-view understanding. The project and benchmark are publicly available at https://danielchyeh.github.io/All-Angles-Bench/.
title Seeing from Another Perspective: Evaluating Multi-View Understanding in MLLMs
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Computation and Language
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.15280