# Failure Mode Analysis of Vision-Language Models in Thermal Human-Robot Interaction

- Source: arXiv cs.RO
- Published: 2026-10-22T04:00:00.000Z
- RoboHot: https://robohot.news/en/items/ftv1rqjhjkrbd8skqextymcp4
- Original: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.29244

## Summary

A study evaluated the human activity understanding capabilities of seven locally deployable vision-language models (VLMs) on two person-centric thermal imaging datasets, with diagnostic tasks covering fine-grained action recognition, activity timeline reconstruction, and the ability to withhold answers.