HRScene: How Far Are VLMs from Effective High-Resolution Image Understanding?

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Main Authors: Zhang, Yusen, Zheng, Wenliang, Madasu, Aashrith, Shi, Peng, Kamoi, Ryo, Zhou, Hao, Zou, Zhuoyang, Zhao, Shu, Das, Sarkar Snigdha Sarathi, Gupta, Vipul, Lu, Xiaoxin, Zhang, Nan, Zhang, Ranran Haoran, Iyer, Avitej, Lou, Renze, Yin, Wenpeng, Zhang, Rui
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author Zhang, Yusen
Zheng, Wenliang
Madasu, Aashrith
Shi, Peng
Kamoi, Ryo
Zhou, Hao
Zou, Zhuoyang
Zhao, Shu
Das, Sarkar Snigdha Sarathi
Gupta, Vipul
Lu, Xiaoxin
Zhang, Nan
Zhang, Ranran Haoran
Iyer, Avitej
Lou, Renze
Yin, Wenpeng
Zhang, Rui
author_facet Zhang, Yusen
Zheng, Wenliang
Madasu, Aashrith
Shi, Peng
Kamoi, Ryo
Zhou, Hao
Zou, Zhuoyang
Zhao, Shu
Das, Sarkar Snigdha Sarathi
Gupta, Vipul
Lu, Xiaoxin
Zhang, Nan
Zhang, Ranran Haoran
Iyer, Avitej
Lou, Renze
Yin, Wenpeng
Zhang, Rui
contents High-resolution image (HRI) understanding aims to process images with a large number of pixels, such as pathological images and agricultural aerial images, both of which can exceed 1 million pixels. Vision Large Language Models (VLMs) can allegedly handle HRIs, however, there is a lack of a comprehensive benchmark for VLMs to evaluate HRI understanding. To address this gap, we introduce HRScene, a novel unified benchmark for HRI understanding with rich scenes. HRScene incorporates 25 real-world datasets and 2 synthetic diagnostic datasets with resolutions ranging from 1,024 $\times$ 1,024 to 35,503 $\times$ 26,627. HRScene is collected and re-annotated by 10 graduate-level annotators, covering 25 scenarios, ranging from microscopic to radiology images, street views, long-range pictures, and telescope images. It includes HRIs of real-world objects, scanned documents, and composite multi-image. The two diagnostic evaluation datasets are synthesized by combining the target image with the gold answer and distracting images in different orders, assessing how well models utilize regions in HRI. We conduct extensive experiments involving 28 VLMs, including Gemini 2.0 Flash and GPT-4o. Experiments on HRScene show that current VLMs achieve an average accuracy of around 50% on real-world tasks, revealing significant gaps in HRI understanding. Results on synthetic datasets reveal that VLMs struggle to effectively utilize HRI regions, showing significant Regional Divergence and lost-in-middle, shedding light on future research.
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spellingShingle HRScene: How Far Are VLMs from Effective High-Resolution Image Understanding?
Zhang, Yusen
Zheng, Wenliang
Madasu, Aashrith
Shi, Peng
Kamoi, Ryo
Zhou, Hao
Zou, Zhuoyang
Zhao, Shu
Das, Sarkar Snigdha Sarathi
Gupta, Vipul
Lu, Xiaoxin
Zhang, Nan
Zhang, Ranran Haoran
Iyer, Avitej
Lou, Renze
Yin, Wenpeng
Zhang, Rui
Computation and Language
High-resolution image (HRI) understanding aims to process images with a large number of pixels, such as pathological images and agricultural aerial images, both of which can exceed 1 million pixels. Vision Large Language Models (VLMs) can allegedly handle HRIs, however, there is a lack of a comprehensive benchmark for VLMs to evaluate HRI understanding. To address this gap, we introduce HRScene, a novel unified benchmark for HRI understanding with rich scenes. HRScene incorporates 25 real-world datasets and 2 synthetic diagnostic datasets with resolutions ranging from 1,024 $\times$ 1,024 to 35,503 $\times$ 26,627. HRScene is collected and re-annotated by 10 graduate-level annotators, covering 25 scenarios, ranging from microscopic to radiology images, street views, long-range pictures, and telescope images. It includes HRIs of real-world objects, scanned documents, and composite multi-image. The two diagnostic evaluation datasets are synthesized by combining the target image with the gold answer and distracting images in different orders, assessing how well models utilize regions in HRI. We conduct extensive experiments involving 28 VLMs, including Gemini 2.0 Flash and GPT-4o. Experiments on HRScene show that current VLMs achieve an average accuracy of around 50% on real-world tasks, revealing significant gaps in HRI understanding. Results on synthetic datasets reveal that VLMs struggle to effectively utilize HRI regions, showing significant Regional Divergence and lost-in-middle, shedding light on future research.
title HRScene: How Far Are VLMs from Effective High-Resolution Image Understanding?
topic Computation and Language
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.18406