WeatherReasonSeg: A Benchmark for Weather-Aware Reasoning Segmentation in Visual Language Models

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Auteurs principaux: Du, Wanjun, Yuan, Zifeng, Chen, Tingting, Ke, Fucai, Lin, Beibei, Zhang, Shunli
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author Du, Wanjun
Yuan, Zifeng
Chen, Tingting
Ke, Fucai
Lin, Beibei
Zhang, Shunli
author_facet Du, Wanjun
Yuan, Zifeng
Chen, Tingting
Ke, Fucai
Lin, Beibei
Zhang, Shunli
contents Existing vision-language models (VLMs) have demonstrated impressive performance in reasoning-based segmentation. However, current benchmarks are primarily constructed from high-quality images captured under idealized conditions. This raises a critical question: when visual cues are severely degraded by adverse weather conditions such as rain, snow, or fog, can VLMs sustain reliable reasoning segmentation capabilities? In response to this challenge, we introduce WeatherReasonSeg, a benchmark designed to evaluate VLM performance in reasoning-based segmentation under adverse weather conditions. It consists of two complementary components. First, we construct a controllable reasoning dataset by applying synthetic weather with varying severity levels to existing segmentation datasets, enabling fine-grained robustness analysis. Second, to capture real-world complexity, we curate a real-world adverse-weather reasoning segmentation dataset with semantically consistent queries generated via mask-guided LLM prompting. We further broaden the evaluation scope across five reasoning dimensions, including functionality, application scenarios, structural attributes, interactions, and requirement matching. Extensive experiments across diverse VLMs reveal two key findings: (1) VLM performance degrades monotonically with increasing weather severity, and (2) different weather types induce distinct vulnerability patterns. We hope WeatherReasonSeg will serve as a foundation for advancing robust, weather-aware reasoning.
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spellingShingle WeatherReasonSeg: A Benchmark for Weather-Aware Reasoning Segmentation in Visual Language Models
Du, Wanjun
Yuan, Zifeng
Chen, Tingting
Ke, Fucai
Lin, Beibei
Zhang, Shunli
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
Existing vision-language models (VLMs) have demonstrated impressive performance in reasoning-based segmentation. However, current benchmarks are primarily constructed from high-quality images captured under idealized conditions. This raises a critical question: when visual cues are severely degraded by adverse weather conditions such as rain, snow, or fog, can VLMs sustain reliable reasoning segmentation capabilities? In response to this challenge, we introduce WeatherReasonSeg, a benchmark designed to evaluate VLM performance in reasoning-based segmentation under adverse weather conditions. It consists of two complementary components. First, we construct a controllable reasoning dataset by applying synthetic weather with varying severity levels to existing segmentation datasets, enabling fine-grained robustness analysis. Second, to capture real-world complexity, we curate a real-world adverse-weather reasoning segmentation dataset with semantically consistent queries generated via mask-guided LLM prompting. We further broaden the evaluation scope across five reasoning dimensions, including functionality, application scenarios, structural attributes, interactions, and requirement matching. Extensive experiments across diverse VLMs reveal two key findings: (1) VLM performance degrades monotonically with increasing weather severity, and (2) different weather types induce distinct vulnerability patterns. We hope WeatherReasonSeg will serve as a foundation for advancing robust, weather-aware reasoning.
title WeatherReasonSeg: A Benchmark for Weather-Aware Reasoning Segmentation in Visual Language Models
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.17680