arxivcs.CVcs.RO2026-06-25
FlameVQA: A Physically-Grounded UAV Wildfire VQA Benchmark with Radiometric Thermal Supervision
Mobin Habibpour, John Spodnik, Niloufar Alipour Talemi, Fatemeh Afghah
Wildfire monitoring from UAVs requires reliable reasoning over complex aerial scenes, where smoke, scale variation, and occlusions often limit RGB-only interpretation. We introduce FlameVQA, a multiple-choice visual question answering benchmark for UAV-based wildfire intelligence…