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Evaluation of Vision-Language Models Across Diverse Coastal Environments

arXiv · AI, language, vision and robotics · article · Sep 9, 2026 · UTC

Vision-language models (VLMs) enable robotic per- ception by associating visual observations with natural-language concepts. Yet their performance in coastal environments remains largely unexplored. We introduce a densely labeled coastal dataset containing more than 1,000 images collected across seven missions in three regions of Oahu, Hawaii, with 18 semantic classes and over 7,400 annotated instances. We evaluate seven modern VLMs through three complementary experiments mea- suring text-to-mask, mask-to-mask, and mask-to-text alignment. Broad landscape classes are generally recognized more a

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