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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

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) 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) 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

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

In Embodied Question Answering (EmbodiedQA), an agent interacts with an environment to gather necessary information for answering user questions. Existing works have laid a solid foundation towards solving this interesting problem. But the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-07 Yu Wu , Lu Jiang , Yi Yang

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

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

As embodied models become powerful, humans will collaborate with multiple embodied AI agents at their workplace or home in the future. To ensure better communication between human users and the multi-agent system, it is crucial to interpret…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Kangsan Kim , Yanlai Yang , Suji Kim , Woongyeong Yeo , Youngwan Lee , Mengye Ren , Sung Ju Hwang

Existing Embodied Question Answering (EQA) benchmarks primarily focus on household environments, often overlooking safety-critical aspects and reasoning processes pertinent to industrial settings. This drawback limits the evaluation of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Yifan Li , Yuhang Chen , Anh Dao , Lichi Li , Zhongyi Cai , Zhen Tan , Tianlong Chen , Yu Kong

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

In Embodied Question Answering (EQA), agents must explore and develop a semantic understanding of an unseen environment to answer a situated question with confidence. This problem remains challenging in robotics, due to the difficulties in…

Embodied conversational agents (ECAs) are increasingly more realistic and capable of dynamic conversations. In online surveys, anthropomorphic agents could help address issues like careless responding and satisficing, which originate from…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Matus Krajcovic , Peter Demcak , Eduard Kuric

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

Answers to the same question may change depending on the extra-linguistic contexts (when and where the question was asked). To study this challenge, we introduce SituatedQA, an open-retrieval QA dataset where systems must produce the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Michael J. Q. Zhang , Eunsol Choi

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…

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
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