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arxiv: 2512.24985 · v4 · submitted 2025-12-31 · 💻 cs.CV · cs.AI· cs.LG· cs.RO

DarkQA: Benchmarking Vision-Language Models on Visual-Primitive Question Answering in Low-Light Indoor Scenes

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keywords vision-language modelslow-light benchmarkvisual primitivessensor noiseimage enhancementindoor scenesembodied perceptionsynthetic data
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The pith

Vision-language models degrade consistently when answering basic visual questions in low-light indoor scenes, and low-light enhancement offers only partial unstable recovery.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

DarkQA creates a controlled benchmark of 9.4K question-image pairs that isolate five families of visual primitives under graded low-light conditions. Degradations are synthesized in linear RAW space to model illumination loss and sensor noise, then passed through an ISP-style pipeline and validated against real paired camera data. Tests on representative VLMs show clear performance drops as light levels fall and noise rises. Standard low-light image enhancement methods improve results in a severity-dependent way but produce inconsistent outcomes across models and degradation strengths. The benchmark separates perceptual failures from higher-level embodied reasoning so developers can diagnose where robustness is missing.

Core claim

DarkQA demonstrates that current vision-language models exhibit reliable accuracy drops on elementary visual-primitive questions once illumination falls and sensor noise increases, while common low-light image enhancement pipelines deliver only severity-dependent and unstable recovery.

What carries the argument

DarkQA benchmark consisting of deterministically generated question-image pairs with physics-based low-light synthesis performed in linear RAW space followed by ISP rendering.

If this is right

  • VLMs will continue to produce unreliable answers on simple perceptual tasks in dark indoor environments without targeted robustness improvements.
  • LLIE preprocessing cannot be treated as a dependable plug-in solution for VLM inputs across varying light levels.
  • Benchmarks that isolate low-level visual primitives can expose failure modes before they compound in full embodied tasks.
  • Training or architectural changes that address illumination drop and noise directly will be necessary for reliable 24/7 VLM operation.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • Embodied agents that rely on VLMs for navigation or manipulation will encounter compounded errors when low-light perceptual failures interact with planning modules.
  • The same synthesis approach could be extended to other degradations such as motion blur or haze to create a broader suite of controlled perception tests.
  • Developers should incorporate low-light synthetic data into VLM fine-tuning loops to close the observed gap before real-world deployment.

Load-bearing premise

The synthetic low-light images generated in RAW space and rendered through an ISP pipeline match the statistics of real camera captures closely enough to predict actual VLM failures.

What would settle it

Collect real paired low-light and normal-light images of the same indoor scenes, ask the same questions to the same VLMs, and check whether the performance gap matches the synthetic results within a small margin.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2512.24985 by Hyunwoo Ha, Tae-Hyun Oh, Wonjun Jo, Yohan Park.

Figure 1
Figure 1. Figure 1: Illustration of the DarkEQA benchmark. Traditional Embodied Question Answering (EQA) primarily evaluates VLMs on well-lit images, overlooking their robustness to real-world low-light conditions. We present DarkEQA, a new benchmark designed to address this evaluation void. DarkEQA assesses VLM performance under two distinct conditions: clean, well-lit inputs (L0) and a multi-level ladder of physics-based lo… view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Figure 2: Low-light synthesis pipeline with disentangled illumination and noise factors. To generate controlled low-light inputs for our benchmark, we adopt an ISP-inspired unprocessing and noise formulation from prior work [18], [19]. Crucially, we produce paired variants for each original image to disentangle failure sources in VLM-based EQA: (a) a physics-based branch (top) that unprocesses sRGB to Bayer RAW, inj… view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Figure 3: Example low-light image synthesization. Synthesized low-light image examples across degradation levels L0–L5. The top row shows EV drop only, while the bottom row shows EV drop combined with noise injection. The lower-right insets show 1/4-image crops with pixel intensities amplified for visibility; the numbers (×10, ×20, ×50) indicate the amplification factor. face in dark environments. III. DARKEQA: DATA… view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Figure 2: Unprocessing (sRGB → RAW). We first normalize an 8- bit sRGB image I ∈ {0, . . . , 255} H×W×3 , where H and W denote the image height and width, respectively, to IsRGB = I 255 ∈ [0, 1]H×W×3 . To obtain a camera-linear RAW image from IsRGB, we invert the ISP following [18]. We denote the unprocessing operator by u(·), and express the resulting Bayer RAW mosaic as B = u(IsRGB), (4) where B ∈ [0, 1] H 2 × W 2… view at source ↗
Figure 4
Figure 4. Figure 4: Question family of our DarkEQA benchmark. Five DarkEQA question categories with examples. DarkEQA encompasses questions asking room-type recognition, room affordance check, object recognition, object attribute. between top-two closest objects exceeds a minimum threshold to ensure perceptual validity. If satisfied, the closest object is determined as the ground-truth answer. In this example, “chair” is iden… view at source ↗
Figure 6
Figure 6. Figure 6: Summary of the evaluation results on our DarkEQA. Degradation level indicates the severity of low-light corruption: L0 corresponds to the original (well-lit) input, and higher levels (L1 → L5) denote progressively darker (lower-illumination) inputs. We evaluate a range of open-source VLMs (LLaVA [12], [13], InternVL [14], and Qwen-VL [15] series, 7B–32B). The shaded regions in (a) and (b) denote the minimu… view at source ↗
Figure 7
Figure 7. Figure 7: Question-wise accuracy. We plot VLM accuracy across different question types under increasing low-light degradation, where darker lines indicate more severe degradation and the gray dashed line denotes the GPT-4 Blind-LLM baseline. We observe significant drops in “Room Type Recognition” and “Object Attribute – Color,” where VLM performance falls below the GPT-4 Blind-LLM baseline. Effectiveness of low-ligh… view at source ↗
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Vision Language Models (VLMs) are increasingly adopted as central reasoning modules for embodied agents. Existing benchmarks evaluate their capabilities under ideal, well-lit conditions, yet robust 24/7 operation demands performance under a wide range of visual degradations, including low-light conditions at night or in dark environments, a core necessity that has been largely overlooked. To address this underexplored challenge, we present DarkQA, an open-source benchmark for evaluating perceptual primitives under multi-level low-light conditions in embodied scenarios. DarkQA evaluates single-view egocentric observations across controlled degradation levels, isolating low-light perceptual failures before they are entangled with complex embodied tasks. The benchmark contains 9.4K deterministically generated and verifiable question-image pairs spanning five visual-primitive families. A key design feature of DarkQA is its physical fidelity: visual degradations are modeled in linear RAW space, simulating physics-based illumination drop and sensor noise followed by an ISP-inspired rendering pipeline; we further validate the synthesis against real paired low-light camera data. We evaluate representative VLMs and Low-Light Image Enhancement (LLIE) preprocessing methods. Results show consistent VLM degradation under low illumination and sensor noise, while LLIE provides severity-dependent but unstable recovery. We demonstrate the utility of DarkQA by evaluating a wide range of state-of-the-art VLMs and Low-Light Image Enhancement (LLIE) models, and systematically reveal VLMs' limitations when operating under these challenging visual conditions. Our code and benchmark dataset will be released upon acceptance. Project website: https://darkqa-benchmark.github.io

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Referee Report

2 major / 2 minor

Summary. The paper introduces DarkQA, a benchmark of 9.4K deterministically generated question-image pairs for evaluating VLMs on five families of visual primitives in low-light indoor egocentric scenes. Degradations are synthesized in linear RAW space with physics-based illumination drop and sensor noise, rendered via an ISP pipeline, and validated against real paired low-light camera captures. Experiments on representative VLMs and LLIE methods report consistent performance degradation under low illumination and noise, with LLIE recovery being severity-dependent but unstable.

Significance. If the central empirical claims hold, DarkQA fills a clear gap by providing a controlled, physically motivated instrument for isolating low-light perceptual failures in VLMs before they compound in embodied tasks. The open release of the dataset and code supports reproducibility and future work on robust 24/7 vision-language reasoning.

major comments (2)
  1. [§4] §4 (synthesis validation): The manuscript validates the RAW-space synthesis against real paired camera data using image-level metrics, yet provides no quantitative comparison of VLM accuracy drops, confusion matrices, or primitive-specific error patterns between the synthetic and real sets. Image similarity alone does not establish that the benchmark triggers the same VLM failure modes claimed to be measured.
  2. [Abstract and §5] Abstract and §5 (results): Reported VLM accuracy degradation trends lack error bars, standard deviations across runs, or statistical significance tests, making it difficult to judge the reliability and consistency of the observed drops across models and degradation levels.
minor comments (2)
  1. [Abstract] The abstract states that 'a wide range of state-of-the-art VLMs and LLIE models' were evaluated but does not specify the exact count or selection criteria; adding this detail would improve clarity.
  2. [§5] Figure captions and axis labels in the results section could more explicitly indicate whether plotted values are means over multiple seeds or single-run results.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

2 responses · 0 unresolved

We thank the referee for the constructive feedback and the recommendation for minor revision. We address each major comment below with clarifications and planned updates to the manuscript.

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  1. Referee: [§4] §4 (synthesis validation): The manuscript validates the RAW-space synthesis against real paired camera data using image-level metrics, yet provides no quantitative comparison of VLM accuracy drops, confusion matrices, or primitive-specific error patterns between the synthetic and real sets. Image similarity alone does not establish that the benchmark triggers the same VLM failure modes claimed to be measured.

    Authors: We agree that direct VLM-level comparisons would provide stronger evidence that the synthetic degradations elicit the same failure modes as real captures. Our §4 validation prioritizes image-level metrics (PSNR, SSIM, and noise statistics) because they quantify the physics-based fidelity of illumination drop and sensor noise in linear RAW space before ISP rendering. In the revised manuscript we will add a supplementary analysis comparing VLM accuracy, degradation trends, and primitive-specific error patterns on a subset of the real paired low-light captures (where question annotations can be aligned), or explicitly note data limitations if full coverage is not feasible. revision: partial

  2. Referee: [Abstract and §5] Abstract and §5 (results): Reported VLM accuracy degradation trends lack error bars, standard deviations across runs, or statistical significance tests, making it difficult to judge the reliability and consistency of the observed drops across models and degradation levels.

    Authors: We thank the referee for highlighting this. The reported numbers reflect deterministic evaluation runs chosen for reproducibility across the 9.4K pairs. In the revision we will re-execute the VLM evaluations with multiple random seeds (where model inference involves any stochasticity), report standard deviations, add error bars to the accuracy plots in §5, and include statistical significance tests (e.g., paired t-tests) between illumination levels. These changes will be reflected in both the main text and figures. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No circularity: benchmark construction and empirical evaluation are self-contained

full rationale

The manuscript presents DarkQA as an external measurement instrument: synthetic RAW-space degradations plus ISP rendering are generated deterministically, then validated against real paired camera captures. No equations, fitted parameters, or predictions are defined in terms of the target VLM scores; the reported degradation patterns and LLIE recovery statistics are direct outputs of running existing VLMs on the held-out benchmark images. The validation step compares image-level statistics to real data rather than re-using the VLM question-answering results to justify the synthesis itself. Consequently the derivation chain contains no self-definitional, fitted-input, or self-citation reductions.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

0 free parameters · 0 axioms · 0 invented entities

The paper introduces no new mathematical axioms or free parameters; its central contribution is an empirical measurement instrument whose validity rests on the physical fidelity of the image synthesis pipeline.

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