HalluSegBench: Counterfactual Visual Reasoning for Segmentation Hallucination Evaluation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21546v2
• Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2025 15:32:51 GMT
• Title: HalluSegBench: Counterfactual Visual Reasoning for Segmentation Hallucination Evaluation
• Authors: Xinzhuo Li, Adheesh Juvekar, Xingyou Liu, Muntasir Wahed, Kiet A. Nguyen, Ismini Lourentzou,
• Abstract summary: HalluSegBench is the first benchmark specifically designed to evaluate hallucinations in visual grounding through the lens of counterfactual visual reasoning.<n>Our benchmark consists of a novel dataset of 1340 counterfactual instance pairs spanning 281 unique object classes.<n> Experiments on HalluSegBench with state-of-the-art vision-language segmentation models reveal that vision-driven hallucinations are significantly more prevalent than label-driven ones.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Recent progress in vision-language segmentation has significantly advanced grounded visual understanding. However, these models often exhibit hallucinations by producing segmentation masks for objects not grounded in the image content or by incorrectly labeling irrelevant regions. Existing evaluation protocols for segmentation hallucination primarily focus on label or textual hallucinations without manipulating the visual context, limiting their capacity to diagnose critical failures. In response, we introduce HalluSegBench, the first benchmark specifically designed to evaluate hallucinations in visual grounding through the lens of counterfactual visual reasoning. Our benchmark consists of a novel dataset of 1340 counterfactual instance pairs spanning 281 unique object classes, and a set of newly introduced metrics that quantify hallucination sensitivity under visually coherent scene edits. Experiments on HalluSegBench with state-of-the-art vision-language segmentation models reveal that vision-driven hallucinations are significantly more prevalent than label-driven ones, with models often persisting in false segmentation, highlighting the need for counterfactual reasoning to diagnose grounding fidelity.

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