arXiv:2606. 08123v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-based driver monitoring systems are increasingly deployed in safety-critical intelligent transportation settings, yet they are almost always compared on classification accuracy alone.
By Ruben Dario Florez-Zela
The paper evaluates five vision‑language models on autonomous driving tasks under various visual input conditions, finding that visual corruption affects accuracy and confidence differently across models and datasets. It then tests Visual Evidence Augmentation (VEA) as an inference‑time technique to enhance reliability, observing mixed improvements depending on the model and setting.
By Manasa Mariam Mammen, Priyanka Mary Mammen, Zafer Kayatas, Stefan Wagner
arXiv:2609.00868v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Vision-language models are evaluated by aggregate accuracy on multimodal benchmarks, a practice that implicitly assumes the model uses its visual inp...
By Genpei Zhang
The paper evaluates the claim that vision‑language models (VLMs) outperform task‑specific vision backbones for UAV power‑line defect assessment using the ElecVQA‑Bench benchmark. Across various evaluation settings—partitioning, item sets, label spaces, replication, resolution, and side information—the performance gap between VLMs and traditional backbones is minimal or even reversed when controlling for resolution and token budget. The study concludes that VLM superiority is not universally supported and emphasizes the importance of rigorous benchmark audits.
By Linghao Zhang, Siyu Xiang, Junwei Kuang, Peiyu Yi
arXiv:2606. 26922v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Continuous driver monitoring in automated vehicles requires low-latency inference while avoiding unsafe decisions under uncertain driver states.
By Daosheng Qiu, Haozhuang Chi, Hao Su, Shu Long, Xinyue Miao, Yongle Dong, Wei Zhang
Vision-language models (VLMs) are often reported to outperform task-specific vision backbones for unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) power-line defect assessment. We test that claim on ElecVQA-Bench, a 56,...