Proactive Assistant Dialogue Generation from Streaming Egocentric Videos (2025.emnlp-main)
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Yichi Zhang, Xin Luna Dong, Zhaojiang Lin, Andrea Madotto, Anuj Kumar, Babak Damavandi, Joyce Chai, Seungwhan Moon
| Challenge: | Recent advances in conversational AI have been substantial, but developing real-time tasks guidance systems remains a challenge. |
| Approach: | They propose a data curation pipeline that synthesizes dialogues from annotated egocentric videos and a suite of automatic evaluation metrics that validated through extensive human studies. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework synthesizes dialogues from annotated egocentric videos and validates them through extensive human studies. |
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