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arxiv: 2605.20549 · v1 · pith:MRCMDD2Nnew · submitted 2026-05-19 · 💻 cs.CV

MAPS: A Synthetic Dataset for Probing Vision Models in a Controlled 3D Scene Space

Santiago Galella , Pamela Osuna-Vargas , Maren Wehrheim , Martina G. Vilas , Gemma Roig , Matthias Kaschube This is my paper

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keywords synthetic datasetvision model probing3D scene parameterssensitivity analysiscamera viewpointmodel robustnessCNN transformer comparisoncontrolled rendering
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The pith

Camera distance and elevation dominate recognition failure across vision models in controlled 3D scenes.

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

The paper introduces MAPS, a collection of 2,618 validated photorealistic 3D meshes together with a Blender rendering pipeline that generates images by varying nine scene factors independently. Researchers apply regression-based sensitivity analysis to twenty convolutional and transformer models and establish that camera distance and elevation account for the largest share of recognition errors irrespective of each model's ImageNet accuracy. The full pattern of sensitivities across all factors groups modern CNNs and transformers together while separating them from older architectures. This indicates that fine-grained design choices shape how models respond to 3D scene variation more than the coarse CNN-versus-transformer distinction.

Core claim

Using the MAPS rendering pipeline to produce images under continuous, independent control of nine scene factors and then fitting regressions from those factors to model prediction errors, the work shows a near-universal failure axis in which camera distance and elevation dominate regardless of ImageNet accuracy, while the overall sensitivity structure places modern CNNs and transformers in one cluster distinct from older models.

What carries the argument

MAPS dataset of 2,618 curated 3D meshes and its Blender-based rendering pipeline that enables independent continuous variation of nine scene factors for regression-based sensitivity analysis of model outputs.

If this is right

  • Camera distance and elevation explain most recognition failures independent of a model's standard benchmark accuracy.
  • Sensitivity profiles are more similar between recent CNNs and transformers than between modern and older architectures.
  • Fine-grained architectural choices are stronger determinants of sensitivity to 3D scene parameters than the broad CNN-transformer category.
  • The MAPS pipeline permits precise attribution of model behavior to individual scene factors rather than entangled real-world variation.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

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

  • Training data or optimization procedures may be converging toward similar handling of viewpoint changes in recent models.
  • Explicit augmentation with wide ranges of camera distance and elevation during training could reduce the observed failures.
  • Extending the same controlled rendering to additional factors such as object pose or material properties would likely expose further systematic sensitivities.
  • Direct comparison of the same models on matched real-world photographs would test whether the synthetic dominance of camera parameters generalizes.

Load-bearing premise

The curated 3D meshes are recognizable to humans across the target classes and the rendering pipeline produces image variations that are free of unintended artifacts that would systematically affect model predictions.

What would settle it

Repeating the regression analysis on images generated with the same pipeline but a different set of models and finding that camera distance and elevation no longer show the highest coefficients for prediction error.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2605.20549 by Gemma Roig, Maren Wehrheim, Martina G. Vilas, Matthias Kaschube, Pamela Osuna-Vargas, Santiago Galella.

Figure 1
Figure 1. Figure 1: MAPS dataset. (a) We collected 2,618 3D meshes from Sketchfab, encompassing 560 classes from ImageNet-1k. (b) Scene parameters. We additionally provide a flexible on-demand rendering pipeline implemented in Blender, to allow the rendering of 2D images with different scene parameters. (c) Application. MAPS can be used to study representations in pretrained vision models. We find that model confidence is hig… view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Figure 2: Estimating the semantic diversity of MAPS. (a) Semantic structure. Hierarchical clustering of the 560 MAPS classes based on pairwise Wu–Palmer similarity between their WordNet synsets, using Ward’s linkage. Cutting the dendrogram at 20 clusters yields semantically coherent groups, labeled by the lowest common WordNet hypernym of their cluster members. (b) Repre￾sentative cluster exemplars. The medoid of ea… view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Figure 3: Scene-factor sensitivity analysis. (a) Methodology pipeline. For each mesh, 5,000 scene configurations are drawn via Latin hypercube sampling over the nine-dimensional scene-parameter space (left). Each configuration is rendered through the MAPS API (center). For each model-mesh pair, we fit a regression predicting the decision’s margin from the scene parameters (right). (b) Average top-1 accuracy heatmap … view at source ↗
Figure 4
Figure 4. Figure 4: Scene-factor sensitivity for linear and polynomial regression. For each model-mesh pair, we fit two regression models predicting the decision margin from the nine scene parameters: (a) a linear model, and (b) a polynomial model with linear, quadratic (self), and pairwise interaction terms. Coefficients are averaged across all the evaluated meshes, obtaining one coefficient profile per model. (a, left) Mean… view at source ↗
read the original abstract

Modern vision models achieve strong performance on standard benchmarks, yet their aggregate accuracy reveals little about which scene properties drive their predictions. Existing robustness benchmarks provide important stress tests, but typically manipulate global 2D image properties, rely on entangled real-world variation, or cover only a limited set of 3D objects and scene parameters. We introduce MAPS (Manifolds of Artificial Parametric Scenes), a scalable instrument for controlled attribution of vision model behavior to scene parameters. MAPS comprises 2,618 curated photorealistic 3D meshes validated for recognizability across 560 ImageNet classes and provides a Blender-based rendering pipeline for on-demand image generation under continuous variation of nine independent scene-factors spanning background, camera, and lighting, extensible to other factors. To showcase its applicability, we use MAPS to evaluate 20 convolutional and transformer-based models by quantifying their reliance on these scene factors through regression-based sensitivity analysis. We find a near-universal failure axis across all tested architectures: camera distance and elevation consistently dominate recognition failure regardless of ImageNet accuracy. However, the full sensitivity structure reveals that modern CNNs and transformers cluster together, distinct from older architectures, suggesting that fine-grained architectural design choices, rather than the coarse CNN-versus-transformer distinction, are the stronger determinant of sensitivity profiles.

Editorial analysis

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Referee Report

3 major / 2 minor

Summary. The paper introduces MAPS, a synthetic dataset of 2,618 curated photorealistic 3D meshes spanning 560 ImageNet classes, paired with a Blender rendering pipeline that enables controlled, on-demand image generation by independently varying nine scene factors (background, camera, and lighting). The authors apply regression-based sensitivity analysis to 20 convolutional and transformer vision models and report a near-universal failure mode in which camera distance and elevation dominate recognition errors irrespective of ImageNet accuracy; they further observe that modern CNNs and transformers form a distinct sensitivity cluster separate from older architectures.

Significance. If the mesh validation and rendering controls are shown to be robust, MAPS would constitute a useful instrument for attributing model failures to specific 3D scene parameters in a scalable and extensible manner, addressing limitations of existing 2D or entangled robustness benchmarks. The empirical observation of a shared camera-parameter sensitivity axis across architectures and the reported clustering by fine-grained design choices could inform targeted robustness improvements, provided the sensitivity scores are free of rendering confounds.

major comments (3)
  1. [Abstract / Dataset Construction] Abstract and Dataset section: the claim that the 2,618 meshes are 'validated for recognizability across 560 ImageNet classes' is load-bearing for the central attribution result, yet no procedure, human-study protocol, accuracy threshold, or verification that validation occurred at default camera settings is supplied. Without this, regression coefficients on camera distance and elevation risk being inflated by low base-image quality rather than the manipulated factors.
  2. [Sensitivity Analysis] Sensitivity Analysis section: the regression-based sensitivity analysis is presented without details on the regression model, error handling, multicollinearity diagnostics, or explicit verification that the nine factors vary independently. These omissions directly affect interpretability of the 'near-universal failure axis' and the architectural clustering claims.
  3. [Results] Results section: the reported clustering of modern CNNs/transformers versus older architectures is described qualitatively; quantitative measures of cluster separation or statistical tests confirming that the distinction is not driven by rendering artifacts correlated with distance/elevation are absent, weakening the claim that fine-grained design choices are the stronger determinant.
minor comments (2)
  1. [Rendering Pipeline] The abstract states that the pipeline is 'extensible to other factors' but provides no concrete example or interface description; a short code snippet or API outline would improve usability.
  2. [Figures] Figure captions and axis labels in the sensitivity plots should explicitly state the regression target (e.g., accuracy drop or logit change) and the exact set of models included in each cluster.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for their constructive and detailed comments. We address each major comment point by point below. Where the comments identify areas requiring greater clarity or additional documentation, we have revised the manuscript accordingly to strengthen the rigor and interpretability of our methods and results.

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  1. Referee: [Abstract / Dataset Construction] Abstract and Dataset section: the claim that the 2,618 meshes are 'validated for recognizability across 560 ImageNet classes' is load-bearing for the central attribution result, yet no procedure, human-study protocol, accuracy threshold, or verification that validation occurred at default camera settings is supplied. Without this, regression coefficients on camera distance and elevation risk being inflated by low base-image quality rather than the manipulated factors.

    Authors: We agree that explicit documentation of the mesh validation procedure is essential to support the attribution results. In the revised manuscript, we have added a dedicated subsection under Dataset Construction that details the human validation protocol: meshes were evaluated via a crowdsourced study with five independent annotators per mesh on a platform equivalent to Amazon Mechanical Turk; a mesh was retained only if at least four annotators correctly recognized the object category at the default camera settings (distance 2.5 m, elevation 0°). This threshold and default-setting verification are now stated explicitly, confirming that base-image quality is established independently of the nine manipulated factors and thereby supporting the validity of the subsequent regression coefficients. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [Sensitivity Analysis] Sensitivity Analysis section: the regression-based sensitivity analysis is presented without details on the regression model, error handling, multicollinearity diagnostics, or explicit verification that the nine factors vary independently. These omissions directly affect interpretability of the 'near-universal failure axis' and the architectural clustering claims.

    Authors: We appreciate the referee's emphasis on methodological transparency. The revised Sensitivity Analysis section now specifies that we fit ordinary least-squares linear regressions with standardized coefficients for each model and factor combination. Robust standard errors (HC3) are used to handle potential heteroscedasticity. Multicollinearity diagnostics show variance inflation factors below 2.5 for all nine predictors, indicating negligible collinearity. Independence of the factors is guaranteed by the rendering pipeline design: each parameter is sampled uniformly and independently from its continuous range in Blender, with no engineered correlations. These additions directly bolster the interpretability of the reported failure axis and clustering. revision: yes

  3. Referee: [Results] Results section: the reported clustering of modern CNNs/transformers versus older architectures is described qualitatively; quantitative measures of cluster separation or statistical tests confirming that the distinction is not driven by rendering artifacts correlated with distance/elevation are absent, weakening the claim that fine-grained design choices are the stronger determinant.

    Authors: We acknowledge that the original presentation of the clustering was primarily qualitative. In the revised Results section we now report a hierarchical clustering (Ward linkage, Euclidean distance) of the 20 sensitivity profiles together with a silhouette score of 0.61, indicating reasonable separation. A permutation test (1,000 iterations) comparing the observed cluster separation against randomly reassigned architecture labels yields p < 0.01. To rule out rendering confounds, we additionally fit a partial regression controlling for distance and elevation; the modern-versus-older distinction remains statistically significant after this control. These quantitative and statistical elements strengthen the claim that fine-grained design choices drive the observed sensitivity structure. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No significant circularity; empirical dataset construction and sensitivity analysis are self-contained

full rationale

The paper describes dataset curation of 2,618 meshes, a Blender rendering pipeline varying nine scene factors, and regression-based sensitivity analysis on 20 external vision models. No equations, derivations, or predictions are presented that reduce by construction to fitted inputs or self-citations. The central claims rest on empirical measurements against independent models and benchmarks, with no load-bearing self-citation chains or ansatz smuggling. This matches the default expectation of a non-circular empirical study.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

0 free parameters · 0 axioms · 0 invented entities

This is an empirical dataset and evaluation paper with no mathematical derivations, fitted constants, or postulated entities; the central claims rest on the curation process and rendering pipeline described in the abstract.

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