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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

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) 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) 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

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 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) 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 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

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

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

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

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 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) 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

3D Scene Question Answering (3D SQA) represents an interdisciplinary task that integrates 3D visual perception and natural language processing, empowering intelligent agents to comprehend and interact with complex 3D environments. Recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Zechuan Li , Hongshan Yu , Yihao Ding , Yan Li , Yong He , Naveed Akhtar

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

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

Embodied Chain-of-Thought (ECoT) reasoning enhances vision-language-action (VLA) models by improving performance and interpretability through intermediate reasoning steps. However, its sequential autoregressive token generation introduces…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Zhekai Duan , Yuan Zhang , Shikai Geng , Gaowen Liu , Joschka Boedecker , Chris Xiaoxuan Lu

Egocentric augmented reality devices such as wearable glasses passively capture visual data as a human wearer tours a home environment. We envision a scenario wherein the human communicates with an AI agent powering such a device by asking…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-04 Samyak Datta , Sameer Dharur , Vincent Cartillier , Ruta Desai , Mukul Khanna , Dhruv Batra , Devi Parikh
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