arXiv:2609.39378v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Real-world embodied tasks, from everyday activities to professional procedures, require agents to act under physical constraints while tracking evolvin...
arXiv:2603. 09731v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) are increasingly considered as a foundation for embodied agents, yet it remains unclear whether they can reliably reason about the long-term physical consequences of actions from an egocentric viewpoint.
arXiv:2607. 11523v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: When should an intelligent assistant speak up without being asked?
arXiv:2604. 08342v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Long context egocentric video understanding has recently attracted significant research attention, with augmented reality (AR) highlighted as one of its most important application domains.
EgoArgus is a new, human‑annotated dataset that tests visual‑language models (VLMs) as situational assistants in five everyday dialogue‑video scenarios. It evaluates how well VLMs understand and decide when to intervene, especially when visual and textual cues are helpful, irrelevant, or conflicting. The study finds that current VLMs still struggle to reliably act as egocentric assistants and that existing modality‑bias mitigation methods offer limited improvement.
When should an intelligent assistant speak up without being asked? Continuous egocentric video offers rich, evolving context that enables a new form of assistance: one that is proactive rather than merely reactive.
BuddyVQA is a new benchmark for companion‑style question answering on egocentric streaming video, comprising 21.6K questions tied to 6K highlight moments across 1,012 long first‑person videos. It emphasizes two often overlooked aspects of daily first‑person QA: ego‑deictic expressions and interactively chained questions, requiring models to resolve visual pronouns and infer user intent within a long‑form streaming context. The authors propose MyBuddy, a multimodal chain‑of‑thought QA assistant that uses a question filter and multi‑level memory to efficiently retrieve visual and QA information, achieving significant performance gains on BuddyVQA and generalizing to other streaming and common video QA benchmarks.
arXiv:2608. 20157v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Egocentric action understanding is often addressed using large video models pretrained on extensive exocentric datasets.
Online understanding of who is talking to the camera wearer is a key capability for egocentric social interaction. However, existing talk-to-me (TTM) studies are commonly formulated as offline clip-le...
Hand-object interaction (HOI) recognition requires capturing both hand manipulations and object transformations. However, existing video-language models often fall into shortcuts by relying on spurious correlations among hands, objects, or environmental context, rather than reasoning from the appearance and dynamics of hands and objects themselves.
arXiv:2607. 14497v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Egocentric Visual Question Answering (VQA) has attracted widespread attention as an important task for enabling Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) to interact with the real world.
EgoVoice is a framework designed to train and evaluate proactive spoken assistants that operate from egocentric multimodal streams. By processing first-person video and audio from HoloAssist recordings, the system creates clean audio streams and frames each moment as a decision to either stay silent or provide spoken guidance. Experiments show that EgoVoice improves intervention timing, content relevance, and human preference compared to existing zero‑shot models.