HUG-VIS: A Multimodal Benchmark for Human-centered Understanding and Generation in Visual Intelligence

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2608.26517v1
• Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2026 01:43:47 GMT
• Title: HUG-VIS: A Multimodal Benchmark for Human-centered Understanding and Generation in Visual Intelligence
• Abstract summary: Visual intelligence seeks to perceive, interpret, and synthesize the visual world.<n>HUG-VIS is a unified benchmark for Human-centered Understanding and Generation in Visual Intelligence.
• Score: 82.1284258781622
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
• Abstract: Visual intelligence seeks to perceive, interpret, and synthesize the visual world and is central to modern computer vision. Human-centered visual intelligence is especially demanding because it studies people as expressive, socially situated subjects whose meaning is rarely conveyed by appearance alone. It couples vision with audio and language across four representative tasks: human emotion recognition, human video generation, human voice cloning, and human video matting. Yet existing resources remain task-specific, providing modalities and annotations for individual problems rather than a shared foundation coordinating understanding and generation. This limits multimodal signal use and broader research. We address this gap with HUG-VIS, a unified benchmark for Human-centered Understanding and Generation in Visual Intelligence. It contains 8,400 seated half-body videos of 30 professional actors, each performing the same 280 emotion-action-prompt assignments under a controlled Mandarin studio protocol, with synchronized video, audio, text, and alpha mattes. We evaluate diverse open- and closed-source models across the four tasks under a unified zero-shot protocol using automatic metrics, criterion-specific mean opinion scores, and multiple cross-task analyses. Results show that (i) linguistic content dominates current emotion recognition, while purely visual affect recognition is weakest; (ii) in video generation and voice cloning, automatic metrics and human judgment agree overall but differ in their top rankings, requiring joint reporting; (iii) boundary fidelity under motion is the main remaining obstacle for human matting; and (iv) task difficulty varies across emotions, models, and metrics, with notable cross-task correlations. The dataset and results are available at https://github.com/GML-MMGroup/HUG-VIS.

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