CameraBench: Benchmarking Visual Reasoning in MLLMs via Photography

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2504.10090v2
• Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2025 12:33:59 GMT
• Title: CameraBench: Benchmarking Visual Reasoning in MLLMs via Photography
• Authors: I-Sheng Fang, Jun-Cheng Chen,
• Abstract summary: Large language models (LLMs) and multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have significantly advanced artificial intelligence.<n>Recent advancements, including the reasoning models like OpenAI o1 and Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking, have opened this capability.<n>We focus specifically on photography-related tasks because a photo is a visual snapshot of the physical world where the underlying physics interplay with the camera parameters.
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• Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) and multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have significantly advanced artificial intelligence. However, visual reasoning, reasoning involving both visual and textual inputs, remains underexplored. Recent advancements, including the reasoning models like OpenAI o1 and Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking, which incorporate image inputs, have opened this capability. In this ongoing work, we focus specifically on photography-related tasks because a photo is a visual snapshot of the physical world where the underlying physics (i.e., illumination, blur extent, etc.) interplay with the camera parameters. Successfully reasoning from the visual information of a photo to identify these numerical camera settings requires the MLLMs to have a deeper understanding of the underlying physics for precise visual comprehension, representing a challenging and intelligent capability essential for practical applications like photography assistant agents. We aim to evaluate MLLMs on their ability to distinguish visual differences related to numerical camera settings, extending a methodology previously proposed for vision-language models (VLMs). Our preliminary results demonstrate the importance of visual reasoning in photography-related tasks. Moreover, these results show that no single MLLM consistently dominates across all evaluation tasks, demonstrating ongoing challenges and opportunities in developing MLLMs with better visual reasoning.

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