{"ID":6536368,"CreatedAt":"2026-07-14T01:21:01.169441415Z","UpdatedAt":"2026-07-14T07:45:21.288449216Z","DeletedAt":null,"paper_url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.10180","arxiv_id":"2607.10180","title":"ActiveFly-Bench: Aligning Embodied Question Answering with Vision-Language-Action for Aerial Embodied Perception","abstract":"We introduce ActiveFly-Bench, the first benchmark to bridge cyberspace reasoning and physical-world interaction for UAV embodied perception. The benchmark decomposes active perception into three hierarchical tasks: Aerial Embodied Question Answering (Air-EQA), Observation Behavior Planning (OBP), and Fine-grained Language-guided UAV Control (FLUC), explicitly connecting high-level task understanding, behavior planning, and low-level control. The datasets are collected from both real-world and simulated outdoor environments for training and evaluation. We further develop ActiveFly, a closed-loop UAV agent that integrates visual-language reasoning with fine-grained control, and deploy it on a physical UAV platform. Experiments with representative VLMs and VLA models show that current UAV agents still struggle with behavior planning, viewpoint adjustment, and robust task completion in active perception. These results establish ActiveFly-Bench as a new testbed for embodied aerial intelligence.","short_abstract":"We introduce ActiveFly-Bench, the first benchmark to bridge cyberspace reasoning and physical-world interaction for UAV embodied perception. The benchmark decomposes active perception into three hierarchical tasks: Aerial Embodied Question Answering (Air-EQA), Observation Behavior Planning (OBP), and Fine-grained Langu...","url_abs":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.10180","url_pdf":"https://arxiv.org/pdf/2607.10180v1","authors":"[\"Weichen Zhang\",\"Shiquan Yu\",\"Yinan Zhu\",\"Peizhi Tang\",\"Shilong Ji\",\"Zhiyuan Deng\",\"Tianyi Lyu\",\"Haoyang Wang\",\"Xin Zeng\",\"Chen Gao\",\"Yong Li\",\"Xinlei Chen\"]","published":"2026-07-11T07:58:04Z","proceeding":"cs.RO","tasks":"[\"cs.RO\",\"cs.AI\"]","methods":"[]","has_code":false}