RSLiveBench-UAV: A Continually Evolving Vision-Language Benchmark for Aerial Spatial Intelligence

Yue Zhou, Jiawei Liu, Jue Chen, Ziyang Gong, Haojia Wei +7

Aerial spatial intelligence (ASI) requires models to understand objects and spatial relationships across changing viewpoints and scales. Evaluating these abilities as models evolve calls for fresh physical observations, yet producing new aerial spatial questions requires repeatedly establishing entity identities, geometric references, and cross-view correspondences. We introduce \textbf{RSLiveBench-UAV}, a continually evolving vision-language benchmark driven by recurring acquisition of real UAV imagery. Its update protocol admits images captured after the preceding release and delays answer disclosure. An entity-centered production workflow uses geometry-assisted association to link repeated observations of physical vehicles, reuse human-verified attributes, and combine them with view-specific annotations and spatial references for traceable question generation. All tasks use deterministic scoring without model judges. We evaluate 30 general-purpose, remote-sensing, and embodied models on 35,491 question records from ten scenes, covering 17 tasks across 2D perception, 3D perception, cross-view perception, and reasoning. All 18 tested embodied models outperform the three selected…