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.
By Hangyu Qin, Junbin Xiao, Shenglang Zhang, Angela Yao
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.
arXiv:2606. 05275v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We study the personal camera roll visual question answering setting.
By Thao Nguyen, Krishna Kumar Singh, Donghyun Kim, Yong Jae Lee, Yuheng Li
arXiv:2607. 11523v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: When should an intelligent assistant speak up without being asked?
By Gong Sitong, Tianyu Yan, Caixin Kang, Bo Zheng, Xiang Ruan, Huchuan Lu, Kaipeng Zhang, Yoichi Sato, Yifei Huang
arXiv:2607. 02959v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We introduce VSeek, an agentic framework that transforms long-video question answering (LVQA) from a passive, single-pass perception task into a multi-turn retrieval process.
By Harsh Goel, S P Sharan, Sahil Shah, Minkyu Choi, Joungbin An, Kristen Grauman, Sandeep P. Chinchali
arXiv:2608. 12627v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Long-horizon egocentric memory transforms continuous first-person video and audio into a searchable record of past experiences.
By Le Zhang, Ke Sun
EgoErrorVQA introduces a new egocentric visual question answering task that evaluates visual agents’ ability to detect procedural errors in everyday activities. The paper presents an evaluator agent built on the Agent2Agent protocol and shows that current models struggle with procedural error recognition. It also proposes Ego-ADR, an Adaptive Decoupled Reasoning framework that improves performance on the task, achieving state‑of‑the‑art results.
By Junlong Li, Junxi Li, Jianjun Gao, Chen Cai, Lap-Pui Chau, Yi Wang
The majority of our everyday activities are procedural and consist of sequences of interdependent steps. However, existing benchmarks for Visual Agents and Visual Language Models (VLMs) overlook the e...
arXiv:2512. 05774v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Long video understanding (LVU) is challenging because answering real-world queries often depends on sparse, temporally dispersed cues buried in hours of mostly redundant and irrelevant content.
By Ziyang Wang, Honglu Zhou, Shijie Wang, Junnan Li, Caiming Xiong, Silvio Savarese, Mohit Bansal, Michael S. Ryoo, Juan Carlos Niebles
arXiv:2603. 26266v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large vision-language models have endowed GUI agents with strong general capabilities for interface understanding and interaction.
By Rui Xie, Zhi Gao, Chenrui Shi, Zirui Shang, Lu Chen, Qing Li
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.
By Yu-Chien Tang, Yu-Hsiang Liu, An-Zi Yen
arXiv:2512.01707v4 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: Streaming video understanding requires models not only to process temporally incoming frames, but also to anticipate user intent for realisti...
By Daeun Lee, Subhojyoti Mukherjee, Branislav Kveton, Ryan A. Rossi, Viet Dac Lai, Seunghyun Yoon, Trung Bui, Franck Dernoncourt, Mohit Bansal