SceneGram: Conceptualizing and Describing Tangrams in Scene Context

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11631v1
• Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2025 10:02:39 GMT
• Title: SceneGram: Conceptualizing and Describing Tangrams in Scene Context
• Authors: Simeon Junker, Sina Zarrieß,
• Abstract summary: This paper contributes SceneGram, a dataset of human references to tangram shapes placed in different scene contexts.<n>We show that these models do not account for the richness and variability of conceptualizations found in human references.
• Score: 8.883534683127415
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Research on reference and naming suggests that humans can come up with very different ways of conceptualizing and referring to the same object, e.g. the same abstract tangram shape can be a "crab", "sink" or "space ship". Another common assumption in cognitive science is that scene context fundamentally shapes our visual perception of objects and conceptual expectations. This paper contributes SceneGram, a dataset of human references to tangram shapes placed in different scene contexts, allowing for systematic analyses of the effect of scene context on conceptualization. Based on this data, we analyze references to tangram shapes generated by multimodal LLMs, showing that these models do not account for the richness and variability of conceptualizations found in human references.

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