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Vision models fail to verify physical causality, new research finds

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A new research paper titled "Geometric Collapse: When Vision Models Fail to Verify Physical Causality" introduces a controlled counterfactual called Scrambled Edges. This method injects edge-like cues into visual data while violating physical plausibility, such as surface continuity and occlusion ordering. Experiments across various depth predictors, including CNNs and ViTs on datasets like NYU Depth v2 and KITTI, show that Scrambled Edges cause significantly larger deviations from clean predictions compared to noise. The study indicates that current dense predictors struggle to quarantine physically unsupported edge cues, highlighting a need for explicit plausibility scoring. AI

IMPACT Highlights a fundamental limitation in current vision models' ability to understand physical causality, suggesting a need for new evaluation methods.

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  1. arXiv cs.CV TIER_1 English(EN) · Wentao Zhang, Jinhu Qi, Weiqiang Jin, Yifei Zhang, Chan-Tong Lam, Irwin King ·

    Geometric Collapse: When Vision Models Fail to Verify Physical Causality

    arXiv:2607.06871v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent progress in large-scale self-supervised learning has improved dense geometric prediction, but it remains unclear whether such scaling yields inference-time physical plausibility checks. We propose Scrambled Edges, a controlle…

  2. arXiv cs.CV TIER_1 English(EN) · Irwin King ·

    Geometric Collapse: When Vision Models Fail to Verify Physical Causality

    Recent progress in large-scale self-supervised learning has improved dense geometric prediction, but it remains unclear whether such scaling yields inference-time physical plausibility checks. We propose Scrambled Edges, a controlled counterfactual that injects salient edge-like …

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