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We consider the problem of Embodied Question Answering (EQA), which refers to settings where an embodied agent such as a robot needs to actively explore an environment to gather information until it is confident about the answer to a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Allen Z. Ren , Jaden Clark , Anushri Dixit , Masha Itkina , Anirudha Majumdar , Dorsa Sadigh

Embodied agents are expected to assist humans by actively exploring unknown environments and reasoning about spatial contexts. When deployed in real life, agents often face sequential tasks where each new task follows the completion of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Zhongyi Cai , Yi Du , Chen Wang , Yu Kong

Visual question answering (Visual QA) has attracted significant attention these years. While a variety of algorithms have been proposed, most of them are built upon different combinations of image and language features as well as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-30 Cheng Zhang , Wei-Lun Chao , Dong Xuan

We propose a new 3D spatial understanding task of 3D Question Answering (3D-QA). In the 3D-QA task, models receive visual information from the entire 3D scene of the rich RGB-D indoor scan and answer the given textual questions about the 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Daichi Azuma , Taiki Miyanishi , Shuhei Kurita , Motoaki Kawanabe

While multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have made groundbreaking progress in embodied intelligence, they still face significant challenges in spatial reasoning for complex long-horizon tasks. To address this gap, we propose…

Representing and understanding 3D environments in a structured manner is crucial for autonomous agents to navigate and reason about their surroundings. While traditional Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) methods generate metric…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Albert Gassol Puigjaner , Angelos Zacharia , Kostas Alexis

One of the key issues of Visual Question Answering (VQA) is to reason with semantic clues in the visual content under the guidance of the question, how to model relational semantics still remains as a great challenge. To fully capture…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2019-08-22 Zhuoqian Yang , Zengchang Qin , Jing Yu , Yue Hu

Achieving human-like reasoning in deep learning models for complex tasks in unknown environments remains a critical challenge in embodied intelligence. While advanced vision-language models (VLMs) excel in static scene understanding, their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Jinzhou Tang , Jusheng zhang , Sidi Liu , Waikit Xiu , Qinhan Lv , Xiying Li

Semantic maps allow a robot to reason about its surroundings to fulfill tasks such as navigating known environments, finding specific objects, and exploring unmapped areas. Traditional mapping approaches provide accurate geometric…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Felix Igelbrink , Lennart Niecksch , Marian Renz , Martin Günther , Martin Atzmueller

We propose a new task to benchmark scene understanding of embodied agents: Situated Question Answering in 3D Scenes (SQA3D). Given a scene context (e.g., 3D scan), SQA3D requires the tested agent to first understand its situation (position,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-14 Xiaojian Ma , Silong Yong , Zilong Zheng , Qing Li , Yitao Liang , Song-Chun Zhu , Siyuan Huang

The analysis of events in dynamic environments poses a fundamental challenge in the development of intelligent agents and robots capable of interacting with humans. Current approaches predominantly utilize visual models. However, these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-07 Sergey Linok , Vadim Semenov , Anastasia Trunova , Oleg Bulichev , Dmitry Yudin

To enable robots to comprehend high-level human instructions and perform complex tasks, a key challenge lies in achieving comprehensive scene understanding: interpreting and interacting with the 3D environment in a meaningful way. This…

Document Visual Question Answering (DocVQA) requires models to jointly understand textual semantics, spatial layout, and visual features. Current methods struggle with explicit spatial relationship modeling, inefficiency with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Ahmad Mohammadshirazi , Pinaki Prasad Guha Neogi , Dheeraj Kulshrestha , Rajiv Ramnath

Embodied Question Answering (EQA) connects perception, reasoning, and interaction within embodied environments. However, existing datasets and benchmarks remain fragmented, each focusing on a limited subset of reasoning skills such as…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Xicheng Gong , Qiwei Li , Peiran Xu , Yadong Mu

Visual question answering is concerned with answering free-form questions about an image. Since it requires a deep linguistic understanding of the question and the ability to associate it with various objects that are present in the image,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-03 Marcel Hildebrandt , Hang Li , Rajat Koner , Volker Tresp , Stephan Günnemann

Semantic querying in complex 3D scenes through free-form language presents a significant challenge. Existing 3D scene understanding methods use large-scale training data and CLIP to align text queries with 3D semantic features. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Chenlu Zhan , Yufei Zhang , Gaoang Wang , Hongwei Wang

Embodied agents are expected to perform more complicated tasks in an interactive environment, with the progress of Embodied AI in recent years. Existing embodied tasks including Embodied Referring Expression (ERE) and other QA-form tasks…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-18 Qie Sima , Sinan Tan , Huaping Liu

Embodied Question Answering (EQA) requires agents to autonomously explore and comprehend the environment to answer context-dependent questions. Typically, an EQA framework consists of four components: a planner, a memory module, a stopping…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Mingliang Zhai , Zhi Gao , Yuwei Wu , Yunde Jia

Visual Question answering is a challenging problem requiring a combination of concepts from Computer Vision and Natural Language Processing. Most existing approaches use a two streams strategy, computing image and question features that are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-02 Will Norcliffe-Brown , Efstathios Vafeias , Sarah Parisot

As embodied intelligence advances toward real-world deployment, the ability to continuously perceive and reason over streaming visual inputs becomes essential. In such settings, an agent must maintain situational awareness of its…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-05 Yifei Wang , Zhenkai Li , Tianwen Qian , Huanran Zheng , Zheng Wang , Yuqian Fu , Xiaoling Wang