3 papers
cs.CL2026
A Visually Impaired Assistance Benchmark for VLM-as-a-Judge Evaluation
Yi Zhao, Siqi Wang, Zhe Hu +2
AI-based Visually Impaired Assistance (VIA) remains challenging, largely due to the high cost of human evaluation. The VLM-as-a-Judge paradigm may offer a promising alternative, al…
cs.CL2025
LaF-GRPO: In-Situ Navigation Instruction Generation for the Visually Impaired via GRPO with LLM-as-Follower Reward
Yi Zhao, Siqi Wang, Jing Li
Navigation instruction generation for visually impaired (VI) individuals (NIG-VI) is critical yet relatively underexplored. This study focuses on generating precise, in-situ, step-…
cs.HC2025
Sighted by Default: Addressing Implicit Vision Assumptions in Real-Time VLM Assistance for BLV Users
Yi Zhao, Siqi Wang, Qiqun Geng +2
Vision-Language Model (VLM)-based assistance is reshaping independence for blind and low-vision (BLV) users, yet current tools fail in dynamic settings. While request-response arch…