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How Far Are VLMs from Privacy Awareness in the Physical World? An Empirical Study

Junran Wang , Xinjie Shen , Zehao Jin , Pan Li
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keywords vision-language modelsprivacy awarenessphysical environmentsembodied agentsperceptual fragilitysocial contextcommand conflict
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The pith

Vision-language models fail to let privacy knowledge govern their actions in physical environments due to perceptual fragility.

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The paper tests whether vision-language models can apply privacy awareness when acting as agents in realistic physical spaces such as homes or hospitals. It creates simulated settings that grow more cluttered, introduce shifting social situations, and force choices between explicit commands and inferred privacy rules. Results across twelve models show steady performance decline with added visual complexity, selection accuracy under 65 percent during context changes, and at most 51 percent success at balancing tasks with privacy in the strongest case. If the findings hold, these models cannot safely serve as autonomous assistants because they cannot reliably perceive and act on privacy cues they may otherwise know. This matters for any effort to place such models in intimate physical settings where they have direct access to sensitive objects and information.

Core claim

Evaluation of twelve state-of-the-art vision-language models in simulated physical environments across three progressive tiers reveals consistent deficits. In cluttered scenes performance decays monotonically with rising complexity because of perceptual deficits. When social context shifts no model exceeds 65 percent selection accuracy. Under conflicting commands the best model achieves perfect balance between task completion and privacy preservation in only 51 percent of cases. These outcomes indicate that current models suffer from perceptual fragility and fail to allow their knowledge of privacy cues to direct situated behavior.

What carries the argument

A three-tier evaluation system that progressively tests the ability to identify sensitive items amid visual clutter, adapt selections to changing social contexts, and resolve tensions between direct commands and inferred privacy constraints.

Load-bearing premise

The simulated physical environments and the three defined evaluation tiers accurately represent the privacy demands and perceptual challenges of genuine real-world settings without introducing simulation-specific biases.

What would settle it

Deploying the same models in actual homes or hospitals to perform equivalent tasks and observing substantially higher rates of privacy-respecting behavior would challenge the central claim.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2605.05340 by Junran Wang, Pan Li, Xinjie Shen, Zehao Jin.

Figure 1
Figure 1. Figure 1: Overview of IMMERSEDPRIVACY. Our evaluation uses image, video, and audio modalities to simulate how VLMs perceive physical environments, social states, and observation histories. It is organized into three progressive tiers: Perceptual Sensitivity Grounding, Dynamic Socio-Contextual Adaptation, and History-Conditioned Inference. Existing benchmarks frequently rely on structured text representations, such a… view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Figure 2: Overview of Tier 1 scenarios. The left panel illustrates increasing scene complexity view at source ↗
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Figure 3. Figure 3: Overview of a Tier 3 scenario. The video shows a character concealing an item. The view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: Tier 1 Single-Turn performance across representative models. view at source ↗
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Figure 5. Figure 5: Tier 1 Multiple-Turn performance across representative models. IR is uniformly high, yet view at source ↗
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Figure 6. Figure 6: Mean turns used in the Multiple￾Turn protocol. Three findings emerge: (i) Perceptual bottle￾neck confirmed. The flat IR curves verify that the Single-Turn decay is predominantly a perception problem: once given close-up views, models reliably detect the sensitive item regard￾less of clutter. The protocol consequently re￾ranks models, for example gpt-4o-mini jumps to the top tier, revealing strong awareness… view at source ↗
Figure 7
Figure 7. Figure 7: The distribution histogram of the incor view at source ↗
Figure 8
Figure 8. Figure 8: Demonstration of failure patterns in Tier 2 case study. view at source ↗
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Figure 9. Figure 9: The distribution of the response across representative models in Tier 3. All questions have three candidate options, among which two are cor￾rect and one violates privacy criteria. Failure patterns and attribution view at source ↗
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Figure 10. Figure 10: Tier 1 Single-Turn performance with human ceiling. The black line with star markers view at source ↗
Figure 11
Figure 11. Figure 11: Perception vs. awareness failure rates across item-count settings. Gemini-3.1- Pro is perception-limited (30–34%), whereas Qwen3-Omni-Flash exhibits a uniquely high awareness failure rate (28–38%) view at source ↗
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Figure 12. Figure 12: Tier 2 Evaluation Analysis: The left panel shows the decision consistency across different view at source ↗
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As Vision-Language Models (VLMs) are increasingly deployed as autonomous cognitive cores for embodied assistants, evaluating their privacy awareness in physical environments becomes critical. Unlike digital chatbots, these agents operate in intimate spaces, such as homes and hospitals, where they possess the physical agency to observe and manipulate privacy-sensitive information and artifacts. However, current benchmarks remain limited to unimodal, text-based representations that cannot capture the demands of real-world settings. To bridge this gap, we present ImmersedPrivacy, an interactive audio-visual evaluation framework that simulates realistic physical environments using a Unity-based simulator. ImmersedPrivacy evaluates physically grounded privacy awareness across three progressive tiers that test a model's ability to identify sensitive items in cluttered scenes, adapt to shifting social contexts, and resolve conflicts between explicit commands and inferred privacy constraints. Our evaluation of 12 state-of-the-art models reveals consistent deficits. In cluttered scenes, all models exhibit monotonic performance decay as scene complexity grows due to perceptual deficit. When social context shifts, no model exceed 65% selection accuracy. Under conflicting commands, the best model gemini-3.1-pro perfectly balances task completion and privacy preservation in only 51% of cases. These findings reveal that current VLMs in the physical world suffer from perceptual fragility and fail to let their knowledge of privacy cues govern their situated behavior. Our code and data is available at https://github.com/immersed-privacy/immersed-privacy .

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Referee Report

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Summary. The paper introduces ImmersedPrivacy, a Unity-based interactive audio-visual simulator for assessing vision-language models' (VLMs) privacy awareness in physical-like settings. It defines three progressive evaluation tiers: (1) identifying sensitive items amid increasing clutter, (2) adapting selections to shifting social contexts, and (3) balancing explicit user commands against inferred privacy constraints. Experiments across 12 state-of-the-art VLMs report monotonic accuracy decay with scene complexity, no model exceeding 65% accuracy on context shifts, and a best-case 51% perfect balance rate (gemini-3.1-pro) under command-privacy conflicts. The authors conclude that VLMs suffer from perceptual fragility and fail to let privacy knowledge govern situated behavior, releasing code and data at the provided GitHub link.

Significance. If the Unity simulator's scenes, interactions, and context shifts faithfully reproduce the perceptual and normative demands of real homes or hospitals, the findings would usefully highlight deployment risks for embodied VLMs and motivate privacy-aware model improvements. The public release of the framework, tasks, and data is a clear strength that supports reproducibility and follow-on work.

major comments (2)
  1. [Abstract and ImmersedPrivacy framework description] The central claim that VLMs exhibit 'perceptual fragility' and 'fail to let their knowledge of privacy cues govern their situated behavior' in the physical world rests entirely on results from the ImmersedPrivacy Unity simulator (abstract and evaluation sections). No calibration, human baseline comparison, or validation against real-world physical environments (e.g., actual lighting, occlusions, audio cues, or social norms in homes/hospitals) is described, raising the risk that observed deficits are testbed artifacts rather than inherent model limitations.
  2. [Evaluation and results] Aggregate performance figures (monotonic decay, <65% context-shift accuracy, 51% best-model balance rate) are presented without reported trial counts per condition, statistical tests, confidence intervals, or variance across runs (abstract and results). This weakens assessment of whether the deficits are robust or could be explained by sampling variability or prompt sensitivity.
minor comments (2)
  1. [Methods] Clarify how the three tiers were constructed, including exact task prompts, object sets, and how 'sensitive items' and 'social contexts' were selected or validated for realism.
  2. [Abstract] The abstract states 'our code and data is available' but the manuscript should include a direct link or DOI in the main text and reproducibility checklist.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for the constructive feedback on our ImmersedPrivacy framework and evaluation. We address each major comment below and indicate planned revisions to strengthen the manuscript.

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  1. Referee: [Abstract and ImmersedPrivacy framework description] The central claim that VLMs exhibit 'perceptual fragility' and 'fail to let their knowledge of privacy cues govern their situated behavior' in the physical world rests entirely on results from the ImmersedPrivacy Unity simulator (abstract and evaluation sections). No calibration, human baseline comparison, or validation against real-world physical environments (e.g., actual lighting, occlusions, audio cues, or social norms in homes/hospitals) is described, raising the risk that observed deficits are testbed artifacts rather than inherent model limitations.

    Authors: We agree that the absence of explicit real-world calibration or human baselines is a limitation. The Unity simulator was chosen to enable precise, repeatable control over variables such as clutter density, occlusions, and context shifts that are hard to standardize in physical environments. In the revised manuscript we will add a dedicated Limitations subsection that (1) details the simulator's design choices and how they map to documented VLM perceptual issues in prior literature, (2) explicitly states that direct validation against real homes/hospitals and human performance baselines are not provided in the current study, and (3) frames the results as evidence of risks in simulated physical-like settings that motivate future embodied validation work. revision: partial

  2. Referee: [Evaluation and results] Aggregate performance figures (monotonic decay, <65% context-shift accuracy, 51% best-model balance rate) are presented without reported trial counts per condition, statistical tests, confidence intervals, or variance across runs (abstract and results). This weakens assessment of whether the deficits are robust or could be explained by sampling variability or prompt sensitivity.

    Authors: We accept this criticism. The revised manuscript will report the exact trial counts per tier and condition, add confidence intervals or standard errors to all aggregate figures, include variance measures across runs, and present statistical tests (linear regression for the monotonic decay trend and appropriate pairwise or ANOVA tests for model comparisons). We will also note any prompt-sensitivity checks performed. These additions will allow readers to evaluate the robustness of the reported deficits. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No circularity: purely empirical benchmark evaluation of existing VLMs

full rationale

The paper introduces ImmersedPrivacy, a new Unity-based simulator and three-tier evaluation framework for testing VLMs on privacy awareness in simulated physical settings. It reports direct empirical results (performance decay with clutter, <65% accuracy on context shifts, 51% balance rate) from evaluating 12 off-the-shelf models. No mathematical derivations, fitted parameters renamed as predictions, self-citation chains for uniqueness theorems, or ansatzes appear. The central claim follows immediately from the benchmark results without reducing to prior self-work by construction. The simulator is presented as a new artifact rather than derived from the target findings.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

0 free parameters · 1 axioms · 1 invented entities

This is an empirical benchmark paper; the central claims rest on the assumption that the simulator faithfully represents physical privacy scenarios and that the tiered tasks validly measure privacy awareness.

axioms (1)
  • domain assumption The Unity simulator provides a faithful representation of physical privacy scenarios and social contexts.
    Invoked to justify using the simulator for evaluating real-world privacy awareness.
invented entities (1)
  • ImmersedPrivacy framework no independent evidence
    purpose: Interactive audio-visual evaluation environment for testing VLMs on physically grounded privacy awareness.
    Newly introduced benchmark and simulator in this work.

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