arXiv AI July 17, 2026 By Zahratu Shabrina, Muhammad Asa, Jin Rui, Lu Yin, Stephen Law

AI vs Human Expert Reasoning: Assessing Agreements in Building Typology Predictions based on Street View Imagery

arXiv:2607. 14756v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This research investigates the potential of Vision-Language Models (VLMs) to infer building typologies: Construction, Current Use, and Storeys from Google Street View (GSV) images.

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arXiv AI

Sep 1

Evidence-Grounded Trustworthy Multimodal Reasoning and Evaluation Benchmark in Complex Urban Scenes

arXiv:2506.09557v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: While Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) demonstrate impressive performance in benign scenarios, their cognitive reliability deteriorat...

By Zhaoyang Wei, Bowen Jiang, Xumeng Han, Jiashu Li, Xuehui Yu, Yuling Liu, Guorong Li, Zhenjun Han, Jianbin Jiao

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arXiv AI

Aug 12

Evidence-Grounded Trustworthy Multimodal Reasoning and Evaluation Benchmark in Complex Urban Scenes

arXiv:2608. 10954v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: While Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) demonstrate impressive performance in benign scenarios, their cognitive reliability deteriorates significantly in complex scenes under adverse conditions.

By Zhaoyang Wei, Bowen Jiang, Xumeng Han, Jiashu Li, Xuehui Yu, Yuling Liu, Guorong Li, Zhenjun Han, Jianbin Jiao

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arXiv Machine Learning

Aug 21

From Street View Imagery to Street Quality Indicators: Vision Language Inference for the Suburban 15-minute City

arXiv:2608. 20026v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Streetscape quality has become a central concern in contemporary urban planning, particularly within the framework of the pedestrian-friendly 15-minute city, where walkability and public-space quality are increasingly recognized as key determinants of urban performance.

By Joan Perez, Giovanni Fusco

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arXiv AI

Jun 17

m2sv: A Scalable Benchmark for Map-to-Street-View Spatial Reasoning

arXiv:2601. 19099v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Vision--language models (VLMs) achieve strong performance on many multimodal benchmarks but remain brittle on spatial reasoning tasks that require aligning abstract overhead representations with egocentric views.

By Yosub Shin, Michael Buriek, Igor Molybog

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arXiv AI

Jul 20

DrawingVQA: A Real-World Benchmark for Multi-Depth Visual-Textual Reasoning on Construction Drawings

arXiv:2607. 15418v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We introduce DrawingVQA, the first benchmark designed to evaluate multimodal large language models (MLLMs) on real-world construction drawings -- a core media in architecture, civil, and many other engineering practices.

By Yoonhwa Jung, Junryu Fu, Mani Golparvar-Fard

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arXiv Machine Learning

Jul 2

VisReason: A Large-Scale Dataset for Visual Chain-of-Thought Reasoning

arXiv:2511. 17731v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Chain-of-Thought (CoT) prompting has proven remarkably effective for eliciting complex reasoning in large language models (LLMs).

By Lingxiao Li, Yifan Wang, Xinyan Gao, Chen Tang, Xiangyu Yue, Chenyu You

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