arXiv · 2607.05859
AVA-VLM: Adaptive Visual Attention-Vision Language Model for In-the-Wild Construction Site Monitoring
Abstract
Existing construction-site Vision-Language Model (VLM) studies have primarily adapted pretrained VLMs through direct QA-style fine-tuning from a single global image, but we argue that this paradigm remains limited in operational range, reliability under reduced-resolution inputs, and inference efficiency. To address these limitations, we propose AVA-VLM, an Adaptive Visual Attention-Vision Language Model that follows a human-inspired coarse-to-fine strategy: it first reasons over a low-resolution global image and requests a high-resolution local crop only when detailed inspection is needed. We further introduce a region-aware Chain-of-Thought dataset that teaches when to inspect, where to crop, and how to use local evidence. Experiments show that, for violation identification, AVA-VLM improves overall F1 from 62.0 to 75.1 while using only 30.6% of the baseline visual-token budget; for long-distance PPE-violation cases, F1 improves from 16.0 to 63.6. These results demonstrate AVA-VLM's improved robustness to distant and reduced-resolution visual evidence with substantially lower visual-token usage.
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Younggun Kim, Taeheon Kim, Youngseo Kim, Seunghee Park. 2026-07-07. AVA-VLM: Adaptive Visual Attention-Vision Language Model for In-the-Wild Construction Site Monitoring. https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.05859
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