IndustryEQA: Pushing the Frontiers of Embodied Question Answering in Industrial Scenarios

TL;DR

IndustryEQA introduces a novel benchmark for evaluating embodied question answering agents specifically in safety-critical industrial warehouse scenarios, emphasizing safety, perception, and reasoning capabilities in realistic environments.

Contribution

It is the first benchmark dedicated to industrial EQA, featuring high-fidelity videos, safety annotations, and a comprehensive evaluation framework for industrial applications.

Findings

Benchmark includes 1344 QA pairs from diverse warehouse scenarios.

Baseline models show significant room for improvement in safety and reasoning tasks.

IndustryEQA promotes development of robust, safety-aware embodied agents for industrial use.

Abstract

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 agent readiness for real-world industrial applications. To bridge this, we introduce IndustryEQA, the first benchmark dedicated to evaluating embodied agent capabilities within safety-critical warehouse scenarios. Built upon the NVIDIA Isaac Sim platform, IndustryEQA provides high-fidelity episodic memory videos featuring diverse industrial assets, dynamic human agents, and carefully designed hazardous situations inspired by real-world safety guidelines. The benchmark includes rich annotations covering six categories: equipment safety, human safety, object recognition, attribute recognition, temporal understanding, and spatial understanding. Besides, it also provides extra reasoning evaluation based on these categories. Specifically, it comprises 971 question-answer pairs generated from small warehouse and 373 pairs from large ones, incorporating scenarios with and without human. We further propose a comprehensive evaluation framework, including various baseline models, to assess their general perception and reasoning abilities in industrial environments. IndustryEQA aims to steer EQA research towards developing more robust, safety-aware, and practically applicable embodied agents for complex industrial environments. Benchmark and codes are available.