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New agent enhances VLM performance for UAV image perception without fine-tuning

Researchers have developed AerialVP, a novel agent designed to enhance the performance of vision-language models (VLMs) in unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) image perception tasks. Unlike traditional methods that require extensive fine-tuning, AerialVP operates without parameter optimization by dynamically adapting prompts. It incorporates image-derived semantics, spatial information, and object relationships to provide more discriminative descriptions and spatial constraints, thereby reducing ambiguity. This approach has been validated on AerialSense, a new benchmark suite for aerial visual grounding, reasoning, and question answering, showing consistent improvements across various VLMs. AI

IMPACT This prompt-centric adaptation method could reduce the cost and complexity of deploying VLMs for specialized tasks like aerial image analysis.

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  1. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Mingning Guo, Mengwei Wu, Shaoxian Li, Haifeng Li, Chao Tao ·

    Towards Accurate UAV Image Perception: Guiding Vision-Language Models with Stronger Task Prompts

    arXiv:2512.07302v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: UAV image perception with VLMs aims to identify and localize targets based on semantic and spatial task prompts. However, small, densely distributed objects and cluttered backgrounds hinder these tasks, particularly when c…