TAR-Bench - Scene Description: leaderboard

TAR-Bench (2026) evaluates vision-language models on 960 human-curated questions about 80 held-out traffic-anomaly clips, zero-shot and without reasoning mode. The Scene Description task covers a physical description of the scene, compared with the reference. Score is scaled BERTScore F1, in percent; higher is better.

Metric: Scaled BERTScore F1 (%; a physical description of the scene, compared with the reference; zero-shot in non-reasoning (direct-answer) mode through VLMEvalKit, mean of 3 runs, on TAR-Bench: 960 human-curated annotations for 80 held-out traffic-anomaly clips from 17 public YouTube videos). Source: arxiv.org. Saturation forecast: Around 2031. 11 models tracked.

Top models

#ModelScoreOverall rank
1Gemini 3.1 Pro (Preview)24#94
2Qwen 3.5 9B (Non-reasoning)22.1#803 (Qwen 3.5 9B)
3Qwen 3.5 27B (Non-reasoning)22#359 (Qwen 3.5 27B)
4Qwen 3 VL 8B Instruct21.9#981
5Gemma 4 31B (IT)15.6#342
6Qwen 3 VL 32B Instruct14.1#585

No result here: #1 Claude Fable 5.2, #2 Gemini 4 Carbon, #5 Claude Opus 5.5.

Interactive version: theaggregate.ai/benchmark?slug=tar-bench-scene-description · How It Works · Data refreshed daily, snapshot 2026-11-13.