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| author | Kou, Qian Shi, Xiaofeng Li, Yulin Qiu, Xiaosong Wang, Xinyang Zhou, Hua Dongxing, Cao |
| author_facet | Kou, Qian Shi, Xiaofeng Li, Yulin Qiu, Xiaosong Wang, Xinyang Zhou, Hua Dongxing, Cao |
| contents | Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have demonstrated significant achievements in general visual question answering (VQA) tasks. However, they remain brittle on mechanical engineering drawings, where high annotation density and weak domain knowledge, compounded by unreliable spatial relation reasoning under strict projection rules and geometric constraints, make decisive cues easy to miss and frequently lead to wrong answers. To bridge this gap, we introduce the first comprehensive mechanical drawing understanding dataset, MechVQA, created through a semi-automated construction and quality-control pipeline. MechVQA contains 3.3k high-density pictures with 21K question-answer pairs, spanning 10 different fine-grained tasks across three capability levels: Recognition, Reasoning, and Judging, providing a testbed to evaluate and improve MLLM understanding on real-world mechanical drawings. On top of MechVQA, we then develop the MechVL model through a multi-stage training paradigm, building a strong domain-specialized baseline. Extensive experimental results demonstrate that MechVL outperforms the strongest closed-source baseline by 7.57 percentage points on the MechVQA total score, significantly enhancing mechanical drawing understanding ability and providing a reusable foundation for deploying MLLMs in mechanical design and inspection scenarios. |
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| spellingShingle | MechVQA: Benchmarking and Enhancing Multimodal LLMs on Comprehensive Mechanical Drawing Understanding Kou, Qian Shi, Xiaofeng Li, Yulin Qiu, Xiaosong Wang, Xinyang Zhou, Hua Dongxing, Cao Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Artificial Intelligence Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have demonstrated significant achievements in general visual question answering (VQA) tasks. However, they remain brittle on mechanical engineering drawings, where high annotation density and weak domain knowledge, compounded by unreliable spatial relation reasoning under strict projection rules and geometric constraints, make decisive cues easy to miss and frequently lead to wrong answers. To bridge this gap, we introduce the first comprehensive mechanical drawing understanding dataset, MechVQA, created through a semi-automated construction and quality-control pipeline. MechVQA contains 3.3k high-density pictures with 21K question-answer pairs, spanning 10 different fine-grained tasks across three capability levels: Recognition, Reasoning, and Judging, providing a testbed to evaluate and improve MLLM understanding on real-world mechanical drawings. On top of MechVQA, we then develop the MechVL model through a multi-stage training paradigm, building a strong domain-specialized baseline. Extensive experimental results demonstrate that MechVL outperforms the strongest closed-source baseline by 7.57 percentage points on the MechVQA total score, significantly enhancing mechanical drawing understanding ability and providing a reusable foundation for deploying MLLMs in mechanical design and inspection scenarios. |
| title | MechVQA: Benchmarking and Enhancing Multimodal LLMs on Comprehensive Mechanical Drawing Understanding |
| topic | Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Artificial Intelligence |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.30794 |