StreamGaze: Gaze-Guided Temporal Reasoning and Proactive Understanding in Streaming Videos

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Main Authors: Lee, Daeun, Mukherjee, Subhojyoti, Kveton, Branislav, Rossi, Ryan A., Lai, Viet Dac, Yoon, Seunghyun, Bui, Trung, Dernoncourt, Franck, Bansal, Mohit
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author Lee, Daeun
Mukherjee, Subhojyoti
Kveton, Branislav
Rossi, Ryan A.
Lai, Viet Dac
Yoon, Seunghyun
Bui, Trung
Dernoncourt, Franck
Bansal, Mohit
author_facet Lee, Daeun
Mukherjee, Subhojyoti
Kveton, Branislav
Rossi, Ryan A.
Lai, Viet Dac
Yoon, Seunghyun
Bui, Trung
Dernoncourt, Franck
Bansal, Mohit
contents Streaming video understanding requires models not only to process temporally incoming frames, but also to anticipate user intention for realistic applications such as Augmented Reality (AR) glasses. While prior streaming benchmarks evaluate temporal reasoning, none measure whether Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) can interpret or leverage human gaze signals within a streaming setting. To fill this gap, we introduce StreamGaze, the first benchmark designed to evaluate how effectively MLLMs utilize gaze for temporal and proactive reasoning in streaming videos. StreamGaze introduces gaze-guided past, present, and proactive tasks that comprehensively assess streaming video understanding. These tasks evaluate whether models can use real-time gaze signals to follow shifting attention and infer user intentions based only on past and currently observed frames. To build StreamGaze, we develop a gaze-video Question Answering (QA) generation pipeline that aligns egocentric videos with raw gaze trajectories through fixation extraction, region-specific visual prompting, and scanpath construction. This pipeline produces spatio-temporally grounded QA pairs that reflect human perceptual dynamics. Across all StreamGaze tasks, we observe substantial performance gaps between state-of-the-art MLLMs and human performance, highlighting key limitations in gaze-based temporal reasoning, intention modeling, and proactive prediction. We further provide detailed analyses of gaze prompting strategies, reasoning behaviors, and task-specific failure modes, offering insights into current limitations and directions for future research. All data and code are publicly available to support continued research in gaze-guided streaming video understanding.
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spellingShingle StreamGaze: Gaze-Guided Temporal Reasoning and Proactive Understanding in Streaming Videos
Lee, Daeun
Mukherjee, Subhojyoti
Kveton, Branislav
Rossi, Ryan A.
Lai, Viet Dac
Yoon, Seunghyun
Bui, Trung
Dernoncourt, Franck
Bansal, Mohit
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
Computation and Language
Streaming video understanding requires models not only to process temporally incoming frames, but also to anticipate user intention for realistic applications such as Augmented Reality (AR) glasses. While prior streaming benchmarks evaluate temporal reasoning, none measure whether Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) can interpret or leverage human gaze signals within a streaming setting. To fill this gap, we introduce StreamGaze, the first benchmark designed to evaluate how effectively MLLMs utilize gaze for temporal and proactive reasoning in streaming videos. StreamGaze introduces gaze-guided past, present, and proactive tasks that comprehensively assess streaming video understanding. These tasks evaluate whether models can use real-time gaze signals to follow shifting attention and infer user intentions based only on past and currently observed frames. To build StreamGaze, we develop a gaze-video Question Answering (QA) generation pipeline that aligns egocentric videos with raw gaze trajectories through fixation extraction, region-specific visual prompting, and scanpath construction. This pipeline produces spatio-temporally grounded QA pairs that reflect human perceptual dynamics. Across all StreamGaze tasks, we observe substantial performance gaps between state-of-the-art MLLMs and human performance, highlighting key limitations in gaze-based temporal reasoning, intention modeling, and proactive prediction. We further provide detailed analyses of gaze prompting strategies, reasoning behaviors, and task-specific failure modes, offering insights into current limitations and directions for future research. All data and code are publicly available to support continued research in gaze-guided streaming video understanding.
title StreamGaze: Gaze-Guided Temporal Reasoning and Proactive Understanding in Streaming Videos
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
Computation and Language
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.01707