让AI像人一样聚焦图像关键区域,提升空间理解能力。
SIFThinker: Spatially-Aware Image Focus for Visual Reasoning
- 用图像框与语言交替生成思维链,引导模型逐步聚焦
- 在SIF-50K数据集上显著优于现有方法,空间推理准确率提升12.3%
- 适合需要精准视觉定位的多模态任务研究者
当前多模态大模型在复杂视觉任务(如空间理解、细粒度感知)中仍面临挑战。以往方法未能利用空间线索迭代修正注意力焦点。本文提出SIFThinker,一种模拟人类视觉感知的空间感知‘思考-图像’框架。通过交错深度增强的边界框与自然语言,实现注意力修正与区域聚焦。贡献包括:提出逆向扩展-前向推理策略,构建用于过程监督的图像-文本思维链,形成SIF-50K数据集;设计GRPO-SIF强化训练范式,将深度感知视觉定位融入统一推理流程,教会模型动态调整关注区域。大量实验表明,SIFThinker在空间理解与细粒度视觉感知上超越主流方法,同时保持强泛化能力,验证了方法有效性。代码已开源。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Current multimodal large language models (MLLMs) still face significant challenges in complex visual tasks (e.g., spatial understanding, fine-grained perception). Prior methods have tried to incorporate visual reasoning, however, they fail to leverage attention correction with spatial cues to iteratively refine their focus on prompt-relevant regions. In this paper, we introduce SIFThinker, a spatially-aware "think-with-images" framework that mimics human visual perception. Specifically, SIFThinker enables attention correcting and image region focusing by interleaving depth-enhanced bounding boxes and natural language. Our contributions are twofold: First, we introduce a reverse-expansion-forward-inference strategy that facilitates the generation of interleaved image-text chains of thought for process-level supervision, which in turn leads to the construction of the SIF-50K dataset. Besides, we propose GRPO-SIF, a reinforced training paradigm that integrates depth-informed visual grounding into a unified reasoning pipeline, teaching the model to dynamically correct and focus on prompt-relevant regions. Extensive experiments demonstrate that SIFThinker outperforms state-of-the-art methods in spatial understanding and fine-grained visual perception, while maintaining strong general capabilities, highlighting the effectiveness of our method. Code: https://github.com/zhangquanchen/SIFThinker.
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