In this tutorial, we design an end-to-end evaluation workflow for PerceptionBench. This multimodal benchmark measures fine-grained visual perception capabilities across tasks such as OCR, counting, localization, contextual reasoning, comparison, depth understanding, and hallucination detection. We begin by configuring a Colab-compatible environment, installing the required libraries, and loading a balanced subset of the dataset through a robust multi-stage streaming and download strategy. We then decode base64-encoded images, parse interleaved image placeholders, normalize each example into a consistent record format, and analyze the dataset’s capability distribution, image requirements, answer types, and source benchmarks. From there, we construct a unified evaluation harness that supports a blind-prior baseline, OpenAI-compatible multimodal APIs, and local Hugging Face vision-language models. We also implement rule-based and optional LLM-assisted judging, calculate bootstrap confidence intervals, examine performance across difficulty slices, compare capability profiles with the included leaderboard, and export reproducible prediction and reporting artifacts.

import os, sys, io, re, json, time, math, base64, random, hashlib, subprocess, warnings