arxivcs.CVcs.AIcs.LG2026-06-28
Can Machines Really See Objects in Images? A Study Based on Syntactic Distance and Visual Self-Referential Instances
Xingyu Peng, Junran Wu, Yue Hou, Zhongliang Qiao, Jiaheng Liu, Shangzhe Li, et al.
Can a vision model truly see an object, or does it only fit surface-level visual cues? Following Wittgenstein's view that the limits of language are the limits of the world, we view a model's recognition ability as bounded by the descriptive system it has learned. In current visi…