bytedance/MTVQA

MTVQA: Benchmarking Multilingual Text-Centric Visual Question Answering. A comprehensive evaluation of multimodal large model multilingual text perception and comprehension capabilities across nine widely-used yet low-resource languages. # MTVQA MTVQA: Benchmarking Multilingual Text-Centric Visual Question Answering > Text-Centric Visual Question Answering (TEC-VQA) in its proper format not only facilitates human-machine interaction in text-centric visual environments but also serves as a de facto gold proxy to evaluate AI models in the domain of text-centric scene understanding. Nonetheless, most existing TEC-VQA benchmarks have focused on high-resource languages like English and Chinese. Despite pioneering works to expand multilingual QA pairs in non-text-centric VQA datasets through translation engines, the translation-based protocol encounters a substantial ''Visual-textual misalignment'' problem when applied to TEC-VQA. Specifically, it prioritizes the text in question-answer pairs while disregarding the visual text present in images. Furthermore, it fails to address complexities related to nuanced meaning, contextual distortion, language bias, and question-type diversity. In this work, we tackle multilingual TEC-VQA by introducing MTVQA, the first benchmark featuring high-quality human expert annotations across 9 diverse languages. Further, by comprehensively evaluating numerous state-of-the-art Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs), including GPT-4o, GPT-4V, Claude3, and Gemini, on the MTVQA dataset, it is evident that there is still large room for performance improvement, underscoring the value of the dataset. Additionally, we supply multilingual training data within the MTVQA dataset, demonstrating that straightforward fine-tuning with this data can substantially enhance multilingual TEC-VQA performance. We aspire that MTVQA will offer the research community fresh insights and stimulate further exploration in multilingual visual text comprehension. |**🍎 Project Page** | **📖 Paper** |**📊 Dataset** | **🏆 Leaderboard** ## 🔥 News * **`2025.05.16`** 🌟 MTVQA is accepted by ACL 2025！ * **`2025.03.25`** 🌟 The Elice team from Korea tests their MLLM **Helpy-V Reasoning** on MTVQA. Helpy-V Re …