Grounding Visual Illusions in Language: Do Vision-Language Models Perceive Illusions Like Humans?

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2311.00047v1
• Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2023 18:01:11 GMT
• Title: Grounding Visual Illusions in Language: Do Vision-Language Models Perceive Illusions Like Humans?
• Authors: Yichi Zhang, Jiayi Pan, Yuchen Zhou, Rui Pan, Joyce Chai
• Abstract summary: Vision-Language Models (VLMs) are trained on vast amounts of data captured by humans emulating our understanding of the world. Do VLMs have the similar kind of illusions as humans do, or do they faithfully learn to represent reality? We build a dataset containing five types of visual illusions and formulate four tasks to examine visual illusions in state-of-the-art VLMs.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Vision-Language Models (VLMs) are trained on vast amounts of data captured by humans emulating our understanding of the world. However, known as visual illusions, human's perception of reality isn't always faithful to the physical world. This raises a key question: do VLMs have the similar kind of illusions as humans do, or do they faithfully learn to represent reality? To investigate this question, we build a dataset containing five types of visual illusions and formulate four tasks to examine visual illusions in state-of-the-art VLMs. Our findings have shown that although the overall alignment is low, larger models are closer to human perception and more susceptible to visual illusions. Our dataset and initial findings will promote a better understanding of visual illusions in humans and machines and provide a stepping stone for future computational models that can better align humans and machines in perceiving and communicating about the shared visual world. The code and data are available at https://github.com/vl-illusion/dataset.

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