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Embodied Question Answering (EQA) combines visual scene understanding, goal-directed exploration, spatial and temporal reasoning under partial observability. A central challenge is to confine physical search to question-relevant subspaces…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Haochen Zhang , Nirav Savaliya , Faizan Siddiqui , Enna Sachdeva

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

Embodied Question Answering (EQA) serves as a benchmark task to evaluate the capability of robots to navigate within novel environments and identify objects in response to human queries. However, existing EQA methods often rely on simulated…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Koya Sakamoto , Daichi Azuma , Taiki Miyanishi , Shuhei Kurita , Motoaki Kawanabe

As robots become increasingly capable of operating over extended periods -- spanning days, weeks, and even months -- they are expected to accumulate knowledge of their environments and leverage this experience to assist humans more…

Embodied Question Answering (EQA) requires agents to explore 3D environments to obtain observations and answer questions related to the scene. Existing methods leverage VLMs to directly explore the environment and answer questions without…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Mingliang Zhai , Hansheng Liang , Xiaomeng Fan , Zhi Gao , Chuanhao Li , Che Sun , Xu Bin , Yuwei Wu , Yunde Jia

Embodied Question Answering (EQA) is an essential yet challenging task for robot assistants. Large vision-language models (VLMs) have shown promise for EQA, but existing approaches either treat it as static video question answering without…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Kai Cheng , Zhengyuan Li , Xingpeng Sun , Byung-Cheol Min , Amrit Singh Bedi , Aniket Bera

Deploying embodied agents that can answer questions about their surroundings in realistic real-world settings remains difficult, partly due to the scarcity of benchmarks for episodic memory Embodied Question Answering (EQA). Inspired by the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Subin Varghese , Joshua Gao , Asad Ur Rahman , Vedhus Hoskere

Embodied Question Answering (EQA) has primarily focused on indoor environments, leaving the complexities of urban settings-spanning environment, action, and perception-largely unexplored. To bridge this gap, we introduce CityEQA, a new task…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Yong Zhao , Kai Xu , Zhengqiu Zhu , Yue Hu , Zhiheng Zheng , Yingfeng Chen , Yatai Ji , Chen Gao , Yong Li , Jincai Huang

Embodied Question Answering (EQA) is a recently proposed task, where an agent is placed in a rich 3D environment and must act based solely on its egocentric input to answer a given question. The desired outcome is that the agent learns to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-15 Cătălina Cangea , Eugene Belilovsky , Pietro Liò , Aaron Courville

Embodied Question Answering (EQA) is a challenging task in embodied intelligence that requires agents to dynamically explore 3D environments, actively gather visual information, and perform multi-step reasoning to answer questions. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Kaixuan Jiang , Yang Liu , Weixing Chen , Jingzhou Luo , Ziliang Chen , Ling Pan , Guanbin Li , Liang Lin

This paper considers multi-agent embodied question answering (MA-EQA), which aims to query robot teams on what they have seen over a long horizon. In contrast to existing edge resource management methods that emphasize sensing,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Chengyang Li , Shuai Wang , Kejiang Ye , Weijie Yuan , Boyu Zhou , Yik-Chung Wu , Chengzhong Xu , Huseyin Arslan

In this paper, we propose a novel Knowledge-based Embodied Question Answering (K-EQA) task, in which the agent intelligently explores the environment to answer various questions with the knowledge. Different from explicitly specifying the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-09-17 Sinan Tan , Mengmeng Ge , Di Guo , Huaping Liu , Fuchun Sun

Embodied Question Answering (EQA) is a relatively new task where an agent is asked to answer questions about its environment from egocentric perception. EQA makes the fundamental assumption that every question, e.g., "what color is the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-10 Licheng Yu , Xinlei Chen , Georgia Gkioxari , Mohit Bansal , Tamara L. Berg , Dhruv Batra

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

This paper formulates the Embodied Questions Answering (EQsA) problem, introduces a corresponding benchmark, and proposes an agentic system to tackle the problem. Classical Embodied Question Answering (EQA) is typically formulated as…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Haisheng Wang , Dong Liu , Weiming Zhi

The EmbodiedQA is a task of training an embodied agent by intelligently navigating in a simulated environment and gathering visual information to answer questions. Existing approaches fail to explicitly model the mental imagery function of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-06 Juncheng Li , Siliang Tang , Fei Wu , Yueting Zhuang

Reward Models (RMs), vital for large model alignment, are underexplored for complex embodied tasks like Embodied Question Answering (EQA) where nuanced evaluation of agents' spatial, temporal, and logical understanding is critical yet not…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Yuhang Chen , Zhen Tan , Tianlong Chen

The rapid advancement of Vision-Language Models (VLMs) has significantly advanced the development of Embodied Question Answering (EQA), enhancing agents' abilities in language understanding and reasoning within complex and realistic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Tao Wu , Chuhao Zhou , Yen Heng Wong , Lin Gu , Jianfei Yang

Embodied Question Answering (EQA) requires an agent to interpret language, perceive its environment, and navigate within 3D scenes to produce responses. Existing EQA benchmarks assume that every question must be answered, but embodied…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-05 Tao Wu , Chuhao Zhou , Guangyu Zhao , Haozhi Cao , Yewen Pu , Jianfei Yang

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
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