Vision-language models detect object rotation but misjudge its magnitude

OR-Bench finds that models retain usable coarse rotation information, while a lightweight decoder helps them access it.

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Zhaochen Wang · Yujun Cai · Huangbo Zou · Hower Yang · Naipeng Dong · Miao Xu · +1 more
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Wang and colleagues evaluated 12 vision-language models on eight tasks requiring them to detect, estimate and reason about object rotations across views.

The authors created OR-Bench, comprising five two-view tasks and three multi-view tasks.

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VLMs detect object rotation but poorly estimate its magnitude; reinjecting decoded rotation cues from frozen representations improves accuracy by 7.9 to 12.6 points.

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