arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 24

Can Vision-Language Models Analyze Human-Centered Video? Mapping Model Capabilities and Human-AI Collaborative Workflows

The paper investigates when vision‑language models (VLMs) can independently analyze human‑centered video and when human oversight is still needed. By reviewing 1,702 CHI 2026 papers, the authors develop a five‑dimensional taxonomy of video annotation tasks and build a benchmark of 15 representative tasks. Experiments show that VLMs alone achieve near‑human accuracy (HNS = 97.0), while human verification of VLM outputs yields the highest accuracy (HNS = 121.5) and significantly reduces annotation time and cost.

By Xiyuan Shen, Jiuyang Lyu, Seokhyun Hwang, Huanfen Yao, Shwetak Patel, Zhihan Zhang, Jacob O. Wobbrock
arXiv AI
Aug 11

Not All Visual Tokens Are Equally Safe to Remove:Consequence-Sensitive Visual Token Compression

arXiv:2608. 09176v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Visual token compression for vision--language models (VLMs) has largely relied on criteria such as attention, redundancy, and uncertainty to maximize average accuracy under a fixed compute budget, implicitly assuming that all errors carry equal cost.

By Jingbo Wen, Liang He, Mingyu Cao, Haoyu Wang, Minxuan Hu, Kangning Cui, Xilu Wang