New benchmark tests vision-language models under real-world visibility limits

SynDORBench evaluates how camera distance, lighting, and pixel density degrade multimodal perception, finding that model scale alone does not predict robustness.

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Jeremy Stephen Gabriel Yee · Zhengkui Wang · Zhiyuan Zhang · Avinash Anand · Timothy Liu · Benedict Chan · +2 more

Singapore Institute of Technology · Singapore Management University · NVIDIA AI Technology Center

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The authors introduce SynDORBench, a benchmark of over 54,000 question-answer pairs that systematically degrade visibility according to the DORI standard (Detection, Observation, Recognition, Identification).

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Pixel density and physical imaging constraints govern LVLM perceptual failure, not model scale alone.

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