EgoVoice: Proactive Spoken Assistance from Egocentric Multimodal Streams
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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.
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.
arXiv:2609.07099v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We present our submission to the EgoProactive track of the ECCV 2026 Wearable AI Challenge, which ranked first in the large-model division and second...
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