The paper introduces Salience-LLaVA, a vision‑language model that prioritizes scene elements based on their importance for low‑vision users. It presents three new salience‑aware datasets—Salience COCO, Salience Flickr, and Salience VizWiz—annotated with object‑level salience verified by low‑vision participants. The authors also propose the SCMI metric to evaluate caption ordering accuracy and demonstrate the system’s practicality by deploying it on assistive glasses.
By Jiazhao Liang, Hao Huang, Shuaihang Yuan, Congcong Wen, Geeta Chandra Raju Bethala, Giles Hamilton-Fletcher, Yu Hao, John-Ross Rizzo, Mengyu Wang, Anthony Tzes, Yi Fang
The paper introduces VISTA, a visual harness that equips a general-purpose multimodal model with long‑horizon vision and a lossless visual memory. VISTA enables the model to directly perceive and actively retrieve past observations, allowing it to reorganize visual input during reasoning. On the ARC‑AGI‑3 benchmark, VISTA boosts Claude Opus 5.0’s Relative Human Action Efficiency from 40.68 to a perfect 100.00, completing all 25 public games with 57.4% fewer actions than first‑time human participants, and it also outperforms baselines on three additional visual game and puzzle benchmarks.
By Qiushi Han, Keya Hu, Linlu Qiu, Cathy Wu, Kaiming He
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.
By Chi Kit Wong, Ye Pan, Yuanhuiyi Lyu, Xu Zheng, Zidong Cao, Lutao Jiang, Zixin Zhang, Huiyu Zhou, Xuming Hu
arXiv:2606. 09142v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Egocentric vision offers a first-person view of human perception and decision making, yet its potential for traffic-safety prediction remains underexplored.
By Danya Li, Xiang Su, Yan Feng, Rico Krueger
arXiv:2609.09396v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: As Vision-Language Models (VLMs) advance toward physical deployment, the focus has remained on action-oriented Embodied AI evaluated on subject-centric...
By Zaid Pervaiz Bhat, Nimra Nayyar, Arihant Jain, Lap Fung Chan, John Suchanek, Yu Wang, Varun Praveen, Tomasz Kornuta, Vidya Nariyambut Murali
arXiv:2607. 08317v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Modern AI models achieve strong performance on many established benchmarks, yet they still fail on tasks that humans find almost trivial, such as manipulating a string or drawing a dog with five legs.
By Matteo Santelmo, Xiuying Wei, Israa Fakih, Felix Bauer, Juan Garcia Giraldo, Chengkun Li, Etienne Bamas, Emmanuel Abb\'e
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: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...
By Shulin Tian, Junsu Kim, Shuai Liu, Hao Li, Yujiao Shen, Sihan Li, Zhe Yang, Yeongon Kim, Feiyu Li, Jialin Wu, Yichi Zhang, Wenhui Wang, Runmao Yao, Yuhao Dong, Zhaoxi Chen, Fangzhou Hong, Antonino Furnari, Jingkang Yang, Hongyuan Zhu, Ziwei Liu
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.
By Chengjun Yu, Xuhan Zhu, Chaoqun Du, Pengfei Yu, Wei Zhai, Yang Cao, Zheng-Jun Zha
arXiv:2608. 15614v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The use of multimodal LLMs (MLLMs) for egocentric video understanding with wearable devices is constrained by the token budget.
By Matteo Stoiber, Niels Buus Lassen
arXiv:2607. 00491v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Benchmarks for vision-language models (VLMs) mostly test observational spatial reasoning: models describe relations already visible in the input.
By Leyuan Yu, Xiao Tang, Minghao Liu, Xinyuan Li, Xiaokai Bai, Sheng Zhou, Qunshu Lin, Weihao Xuan, Naoto Yokoya
Egocentric vision offers a first-person view of human perception and decision making, yet its potential for traffic-safety prediction remains underexplored. In this work, we study the decoding of pedestrian crossing intentions from short egocentric video clips.