ORIC: Benchmarking Object Recognition under Contextual Incongruity in Large Vision-Language Models

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Auteurs principaux: Li, Zhaoyang, Ling, Zhan, Zhou, Yuchen, Gong, Litian, Bıyık, Erdem, Su, Hao
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author Li, Zhaoyang
Ling, Zhan
Zhou, Yuchen
Gong, Litian
Bıyık, Erdem
Su, Hao
author_facet Li, Zhaoyang
Ling, Zhan
Zhou, Yuchen
Gong, Litian
Bıyık, Erdem
Su, Hao
contents Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) excel at captioning, visual question answering, and robotics by combining vision and language, yet they often miss obvious objects or hallucinate nonexistent ones in atypical scenes. We examine these failures through the lens of uncertainty, focusing on contextual incongruity, where objects appear unexpectedly or fail to appear in expected contexts, and show that such cases increase recognition difficulty for state-of-the-art LVLMs. To study this regime, we introduce the Object Recognition in Incongruous Context (ORIC) framework, which constructs incongruous object-context pairs through two complementary strategies: (1) LLM-guided sampling to identify hard-to-recognize objects present in the image and (2) CLIP-guided sampling to mine plausible but absent ones. Applied to MSCOCO, ORIC creates ORIC-Bench and ORIC-style training data. Evaluating 18 LVLMs and 2 open-vocabulary detectors reveals significant degradation and bias under incongruous contexts. Visual Reinforcement Fine-Tuning of Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct on 600 ORIC samples improves performance on ORIC-Bench, AMBER, and HallusionBench. Overall, we show that contextual incongruity is a key source of uncertainty and provide tools for more reliable LVLMs. The dataset and code are publicly available at https://github.com/ZhaoyangLi-1/ORIC.
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spellingShingle ORIC: Benchmarking Object Recognition under Contextual Incongruity in Large Vision-Language Models
Li, Zhaoyang
Ling, Zhan
Zhou, Yuchen
Gong, Litian
Bıyık, Erdem
Su, Hao
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Machine Learning
Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) excel at captioning, visual question answering, and robotics by combining vision and language, yet they often miss obvious objects or hallucinate nonexistent ones in atypical scenes. We examine these failures through the lens of uncertainty, focusing on contextual incongruity, where objects appear unexpectedly or fail to appear in expected contexts, and show that such cases increase recognition difficulty for state-of-the-art LVLMs. To study this regime, we introduce the Object Recognition in Incongruous Context (ORIC) framework, which constructs incongruous object-context pairs through two complementary strategies: (1) LLM-guided sampling to identify hard-to-recognize objects present in the image and (2) CLIP-guided sampling to mine plausible but absent ones. Applied to MSCOCO, ORIC creates ORIC-Bench and ORIC-style training data. Evaluating 18 LVLMs and 2 open-vocabulary detectors reveals significant degradation and bias under incongruous contexts. Visual Reinforcement Fine-Tuning of Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct on 600 ORIC samples improves performance on ORIC-Bench, AMBER, and HallusionBench. Overall, we show that contextual incongruity is a key source of uncertainty and provide tools for more reliable LVLMs. The dataset and code are publicly available at https://github.com/ZhaoyangLi-1/ORIC.
title ORIC: Benchmarking Object Recognition under Contextual Incongruity in Large Vision-Language Models
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.15695