In the Eye of MLLM: Benchmarking Egocentric Video Intent Understanding with Gaze-Guided Prompting

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2509.07447v1
• Date: Tue, 09 Sep 2025 07:11:56 GMT
• Title: In the Eye of MLLM: Benchmarking Egocentric Video Intent Understanding with Gaze-Guided Prompting
• Authors: Taiying Peng, Jiacheng Hua, Miao Liu, Feng Lu,
• Abstract summary: EgoGazeVQA consists of gaze-based QA pairs generated by MLLMs and refined by human annotators.<n>Our experiments reveal that existing MLLMs struggle to accurately interpret user intentions.<n>Our gaze-guided intent prompting methods significantly enhance performance by integrating spatial, temporal, and intent-related cues.
• Score: 12.567763863700058
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: The emergence of advanced multimodal large language models (MLLMs) has significantly enhanced AI assistants' ability to process complex information across modalities. Recently, egocentric videos, by directly capturing user focus, actions, and context in an unified coordinate, offer an exciting opportunity to enable proactive and personalized AI user experiences with MLLMs. However, existing benchmarks overlook the crucial role of gaze as an indicator of user intent. To address this gap, we introduce EgoGazeVQA, an egocentric gaze-guided video question answering benchmark that leverages gaze information to improve the understanding of longer daily-life videos. EgoGazeVQA consists of gaze-based QA pairs generated by MLLMs and refined by human annotators. Our experiments reveal that existing MLLMs struggle to accurately interpret user intentions. In contrast, our gaze-guided intent prompting methods significantly enhance performance by integrating spatial, temporal, and intent-related cues. We further conduct experiments on gaze-related fine-tuning and analyze how gaze estimation accuracy impacts prompting effectiveness. These results underscore the value of gaze for more personalized and effective AI assistants in egocentric settings.

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