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# Does AI Understand Imaging? A Systematic Benchmark of Agentic AI for Computational Imaging Tasks

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**Published:** July 9, 2026  
**Original:** https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.07189  

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## Overview

arXiv:2607.07189v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-language models (VLMs) and agentic AI have shown strong performance on semantic visual tasks, but it remains unclear whether they can handle the physics and inverse problems that underlie computational imaging. We present ImagingBench, a benchmark of 20 computational imaging tasks spanning five categories: ray and wave optics, image signal processing, inverse reconstruction, computational sensing, and calibration. ImagingBench evaluates thre

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