Can MLLMs Reason over Surround-View Driving Videos? A Multi-View Autonomous Driving QA Benchmark

arXiv:2611.15225v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Surround-view video understanding in autonomous driving is a crucial capability for Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) to achieve reliable driving reasoning. Real-world driving often requires information beyond the front-view camera. Existing MLLMs primarily focus on front-view information, while their spatio-temporal understanding and reasoning abilities remain unknown. To address this gap, we propose MVDriveBench, a high-information-density video QA benchmark for autonomous driving, characterized by synchronized surround-view inputs, spatio-temporal understanding, and reasoning-chain-oriented evaluation.