Companion-style QA Assistance in Ego-Vision
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arXiv:2609.06721v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: AI companions are envisioned as always-on assistants that support users in daily life. With this regard, we introduce BuddyVQA, a benchmark for companion-style question answering (QA) on egocentric streaming video. BuddyVQA contains 21.6K questions linked to 6K highlight moments across 1,012 long, egocentric videos. It features two key characteristics that are common in daily first-person QA assistance but are largely overlooked in existing VideoQA benchmarks: ego-deictic expressions and interactively chained questions (e.g., "Where is it?", "H
Key takeaways
- arXiv:2609.06721v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: AI companions are envisioned as always-on assistants that support users in daily life.
- With this regard, we introduce BuddyVQA, a benchmark for companion-style question answering (QA) on egocentric streaming video.
- BuddyVQA contains 21.6K questions linked to 6K highlight moments across 1,012 long, egocentric videos.
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