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: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:2607. 00547v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Existing egocentric benchmarks have primarily constructed the egocentric setting from first-person-view data, which makes it difficult to evaluate egocentric perspective itself in isolation.
By Jihyeok Jung (KAIST AI), Jeewu Lee (Sogang University), Sanghyeop Kim (Sogang University), Chanhee Han (Ministry of Science and ICT), Seong Joon Oh (KAIST AI)
arXiv:2606. 02120v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In this report, we address the problem of determining whether a user performs an action incorrectly from egocentric video data.
By Boyu Han, Qianqian Xu, Shilong Bao, Zhiyong Yang, Ruochen Cui, Qingming Huang
Video provides a rich record of human behavior, interaction, and situated contexts, offering important evidence for understanding people and conducting human-centered research. As vision-language mode...
AgentVidBench is a new multi‑hop video question‑answering benchmark designed to evaluate spatial, temporal, and causal reasoning in multimodal large language models (MLLMs). Unlike existing tests that focus on simple scene queries or global summaries, AgentVidBench includes step‑by‑step solution traces to assess whether agents gather the necessary evidence to justify their answers. Experiments with 12 MLLMs show limited single‑turn performance, but integrating these models into agentic workflows improves both accuracy and trajectory scores, establishing AgentVidBench as a comprehensive testbed for future research on agentic video understanding.
By Seoyeon An, Hyeonseo Jang, Minsu Kim, Chanho Lee, Younghan Park, Kangwook Lee