metadata

dataset_info:
  features:
    - name: image
      dtype: image
    - name: question_id
      dtype: string
    - name: question_type
      dtype: string
    - name: question
      dtype: string
    - name: options
      dtype: string
    - name: difficulty
      dtype: string
    - name: category
      dtype: string
    - name: default_prompt
      dtype: string
  splits:
    - name: test
      num_bytes: 9393666010.68
      num_examples: 2720
  download_size: 630547630
  dataset_size: 9393666010.68
configs:
  - config_name: default
    data_files:
      - split: test
        path: data/test-*
license: cc-by-sa-4.0
task_categories:
  - visual-question-answering
language:
  - en
tags:
  - art
pretty_name: VisualOverload

VisualOverload

Is basic image understanding really solved in state-of-the-art VLMs? We present VisualOverload, a slightly different visual question answering (VQA) benchmark comprising 2,720 question–answer pairs, with privately held ground-truth responses. Unlike prior VQA datasets that typically focus on near global image understanding, VisualOverload challenges models to perform simple, knowledge-free visual understanding and reasoning of details in densely populated (or, *overloaded*) scenes. Our dataset consists of high-resolution scans of public-domain paintings that are populated with multiple figures, actions, and unfolding subplots set against elaborately detailed backdrops. Questions were handcrafted to probe for a thorough understanding of the scene.

📂 Load the dataset

The easiest way to load the dataset is to use HuggingFace's datasets.

from datasets import load_dataset

vol_dataset = load_dataset("paulgavrikov/visualoverload")

Each sample contains the following fields

question_id: Unique identifier of each question.
image: A PIL JPEG image. Most of our images match the total pixel count of 4k (3840x2160 px) in different aspect ratios.
question: A question about the image.
question_type: Type of question. Will be one of choice (response expected to be "A", "B", "C", or "D"), counting (freeform), or ocr (freeform). You can use this information to request a suitable output format.
options: This is the list of options for question_type=choice and empty otherwise. Please treat the options as answers options A, B, C, D (4 options) or A, B (2 options).
difficulty: Meta-data about the difficulty of the question. One of easy, medium, or hard.
category: Meta-data about the question task. One of activity, attributes, counting, ocr, reasoning, or scene.
default_prompt: You can use this prompt to stay compliant with our results. It is a simple combination of the question and answers, with some additional output format constraints. This should work well for most models.

🎯 Evaluate your model

Please see GitHub for an example evaluation script that generates a correct submission JSON.

All of our ground truth labels are private. The only way to score your submission is to use the evaluation server. You will need to sign in with a HuggingFace account.

Your predictions should be a list of dictionaries, each containing an question_id field and a response field. For multiple choice questions, the response field should contain the predicted answer choice. For open-ended questions, the response field should contain the option letter (A-D). We will apply simple heuristics to clean the responses, but please ensure they are as accurate as possible.

🏆 Submit to the leaderboard

We welcome all submissions for model or method (including prompting-based) to our dataset. Please create a GitHub issue following the template and include your predictions as JSON.