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- vlm
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# Re:Verse - Can Your VLM Read a Manga?
📄 **1st AI Story Workshop ICCV (Oral)**
* Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.08508
* Website: https://re-verse.verel.app
## Overview
Re:Verse introduces a comprehensive benchmark for evaluating Vision Language Models (VLMs) on manga reading comprehension. Our framework tests models' ability to understand sequential visual narratives, character relationships, and temporal reasoning across manga panels.
## Dataset
The Re:Verse dataset contains:
- **Multi-panel manga sequences** from diverse genres
- **Structured annotations** for story comprehension tasks
## Citation
```bibtex
@inproceedings{
baranwal2025reverse,
title={Re:Verse - Can your VLM read a Manga?},
author={Aaditya Baranwal and Madhav Kataria and Naitik Agrawal and Shruti Vyas and Yogesh S Rawat},
booktitle={Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision - Workshops (ICCV-W)},
year={2025},
url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.08508}
}
```
## Authors
**Aaditya Baranwal**¹†, **Madhav Kataria**², **Naitik Agrawal**³, **Yogesh Singh Rawat**¹, **Shruti Vyas**¹
¹University of Central Florida || ²Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur || ³Indian Institute of Technology Varanasi