Saumya Mundra, Ajoy Mondal, Vineeth N Balasubramanian, C. V. Jawahar
原文摘要
Recent advances in Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have led to significant progress in visual reasoning capabilities. However, existing benchmarks curate image-question pairs pertaining to object categories with few instances, enabling trivial object referencing and limited visual ambiguity. In this work, we introduce MIMO-Bench, a benchmark for evaluating MLLMs in a Multi-Instance per Multi-Object categories (MIMO) setting. Each image-question pair in our benchmark pertains to instances belonging to object categories with multiple instances. The presence of such similar feature distractors causes hindrance in basic visual reasoning tasks, necessitating the referring expression to be composed of multiple visual subtasks to uniquely and unambiguously identify the target object. MIMO-Bench comprises 3,802 image-question pairs across attribute binding and numerical counting tasks. Despite impressive performances on existing benchmarks, both SOTA open-source (InternVL, QwenVL) and proprietary (Gemini, GPT-5) models exhibit substantially lower performance on MIMO-Bench, highlighting their limitations in the MIMO setting. The benchmark will be made publicly available.
Radha Krishna Deshpande, Ajoy Mondal, Akash Manna, C V Jawahar
原文摘要
India's historical public archives present severe computer vision and document image analysis challenges: decades of parliamentary records survive only as degraded, multi-column scanned pages featuring mixed scripts, complex layouts, and dense visual noise where OCR failure is the primary obstacle to information retrieval. We present an end-to-end framework that couples vision-based layout segmentation and multi-script OCR with an agentic retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipeline. Our approach specifically addresses how visual degradation and layout fragmentation propagate into text extraction errors, using an iterative agentic loop to navigate around OCR noise and layout ambiguities before generating answers. Evaluated on the 200,000-page Punjab Vidhan Sabha archive, our system demonstrates robust handling of historical document degradation, outperforming standard text-only baselines.