arxivcs.CVcs.AI2026-06-30
EgoSafetyBench: A Diagnostic Egocentric Video Benchmark for Evaluating Embodied VLMs as Runtime Safety Guards
Siddhant Panpatil, Arth Singh, Mijin Koo, Chaeyun Kim, Haon Park, Dasol Choi
Vision-language models (VLMs) are now proposed as runtime safety guards for embodied agents in homes and factories. A deployable guard must catch genuinely unsafe situations while avoiding unnecessary intervention on routine but superficially alarming activity, a distinction that…