bibtext: @inproceedings{
  shahgir2024illusionvqa,
  title={Illusion{VQA}: A Challenging Optical Illusion Dataset for Vision Language Models},
  author={Haz Sameen Shahgir and Khondker Salman Sayeed and Abhik Bhattacharjee and Wasi Uddin Ahmad and Yue Dong and Rifat Shahriyar},
  booktitle={First Conference on Language Modeling},
  year={2024},
  url={https://openreview.net/forum?id=7ysaJGs7zY}
  }
abstract: The advent of Vision Language Models (VLM) has allowed researchers to investigate the visual understanding of a neural network using natural language. Beyond object classification and detection, VLMs are capable of visual comprehension and common-sense reasoning. This naturally led to the question: How do VLMs respond when the image itself is inherently *unreasonable*? To this end, we present IllusionVQA: a diverse dataset of challenging optical illusions and hard-to-interpret scenes to test the capability of VLMs in two distinct multiple-choice VQA tasks - comprehension and soft localization. GPT4V, the best performing VLM, achieves 62.99\% accuracy (4-shot) on the comprehension task and 49.7\% on the localization task (4-shot and Chain-of-Thought). Human evaluation reveals that humans achieve 91.03\% and 100\% accuracy in comprehension and localization. We discover that In-Context Learning (ICL) and Chain-of-Thought reasoning substantially degrade the performance of Gemini-Pro on the localization task. Tangentially, we discover a potential weakness in the ICL capabilities of VLMs: they fail to locate optical illusions even when the correct answer is in the context window as a few-shot example.
title: IllusionVQA: A Challenging Optical Illusion Dataset for Vision Language Models
authors: Haz Sameen Shahgir Khondker Salman Sayeed Abhik Bhattacharjee Wasi Uddin Ahmad Yue Dong Rifat Shahriyar