arXiv:2609.21363v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multimodal large reasoning models (MLRMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in complex visual understanding. However, this very power introdu...
The paper introduces KoreaGEO, a fine‑grained, multimodal, privacy‑aware benchmark for image‑based geolocation built from Korean street views. It covers four socio‑spatial clusters, nine place types, and includes two captioning styles that mimic real‑world privacy exposure. Using a three‑path protocol (image‑only, functional‑caption, high‑risk‑caption), the study shows that input modality has a stronger effect on localization accuracy and privacy risk than model size or architecture, and reveals structural prediction biases toward core cities.
arXiv:2610.20055v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The rapid advancement of large vision language models (LVLMs) has made geolocation inference from images highly accurate and accessible. This poses ser...
arXiv:2608.28691v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Wearable VLM pipelines promise continuous multimodal assistance from egocentric visual capture: a user asks a task-driven question about the surround...
The paper investigates whether large, instruction‑following Vision‑Language Models (VLMs) can reliably perform zero‑shot image privacy classification. It compares three open‑source VLMs to specialized privacy models on two public benchmarks, evaluating accuracy, robustness to image degradations (compression, lighting changes, noise), inference speed, and parameter count. The findings show that while VLMs remain robust to perturbations, they are less accurate and significantly slower than smaller, purpose‑built privacy models, indicating that scaling alone does not guarantee effective privacy classification.
arXiv:2606. 09132v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Visual Language Models (VLMs) have gained significant popularity due to their remarkable ability.
Privacy risks in text-only Large Language Models (LLMs) are well studied, particularly their tendency to memorize and leak sensitive information. However, Multi-modal Large Language Models (MLLMs), which process both text and images, introduce unique privacy challenges that remain underexplored.
arXiv:2608. 14724v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The rapid advancement of intelligent transportation systems and autonomous driving relies heavily on multi-modal urban traffic datasets.
arXiv:2602. 18047v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: City-scale person re-identification across distributed cameras must handle severe appearance changes from viewpoint, occlusion, and domain shift while complying with data protection rules that prevent sharing raw imagery.
arXiv:2606. 09125v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Privacy risks in text-only Large Language Models (LLMs) are well studied, particularly their tendency to memorize and leak sensitive information.
arXiv:2607. 02897v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have shown strong capabilities, but they may memorize private information from web data, raising privacy concerns.
The paper argues that evaluating privacy‑enhancing technologies (PETs) solely through image classification is insufficient because classification remains robust to many geometric and local perturbations. It proposes a compute‑aware multi‑task protocol that uses lightweight proxy tasks to assess PETs across various transformations, revealing that PETs with similar classification accuracy can perform very differently on other vision tasks. The study demonstrates the necessity of broader evaluation metrics beyond classification to truly gauge PET effectiveness.