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This paper presents an unsupervised approach towards automatically extracting video-based guidance on object usage, from egocentric video and wearable gaze tracking, collected from multiple users while performing tasks. The approach i)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-03-22 Dima Damen , Teesid Leelasawassuk , Walterio Mayol-Cuevas

We present a video summarization approach for egocentric or "wearable" camera data. Given hours of video, the proposed method produces a compact storyboard summary of the camera wearer's day. In contrast to traditional keyframe selection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-05-20 Yong Jae Lee , Kristen Grauman

Video reasoning models are a core component of egocentric and embodied agents. However, standard benchmarks for assessing models provide only evaluation of the output (e.g. the answer to a question), without evaluation of intermediate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Arsha Nagrani , Jasper Uijilings , Shyamal Buch , Tobias Weyand , Sudheendra Vijayanarasimhan , Bo Hu , Ramin Mehran , David A Ross , Cordelia Schmid

First-person (wearable) camera continually captures unscripted interactions of the camera user with objects, people, and scenes reflecting his personal and relational tendencies. One of the preferences of people is their interaction with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-30 Md. Mostafa Kamal Sarker , Hatem A. Rashwan , Estefania Talavera , Syeda Furruka Banu , Petia Radeva , Domenec Puig

This paper proposes an interaction reasoning network for modelling spatio-temporal relationships between hands and objects in video. The proposed interaction unit utilises a Transformer module to reason about each acting hand, and its…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-14 Jian Ma , Dima Damen

Egocentric human videos provide scalable demonstrations for imitation learning, but existing corpora often lack either fine-grained, temporally localized action descriptions or dexterous hand annotations. We introduce OpenEgo, a multimodal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Ahad Jawaid , Yu Xiang

Egocentric video understanding is inherently complex due to the dynamic 4D nature of the environment, where camera motion and object displacements necessitate a continuous re-evaluation of spatial relations. In this work, we target a suite…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Fangrui Zhu , Yunfeng Xi , Jianmo Ni , Mu Cai , Boqing Gong , Long Zhao , Chen Qu , Ian Miao , Yi Li , Cheng Zhong , Huaizu Jiang , Shwetak Patel

Egocentric video generation with fine-grained control through body motion is a key requirement towards embodied AI agents that can simulate, predict, and plan actions. In this work, we propose EgoControl, a pose-controllable video diffusion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Enrico Pallotta , Sina Mokhtarzadeh Azar , Lars Doorenbos , Serdar Ozsoy , Umar Iqbal , Juergen Gall

The analysis and use of egocentric videos for robotic tasks is made challenging by occlusion due to the hand and the visual mismatch between the human hand and a robot end-effector. In this sense, the human hand presents a nuisance.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-26 Matthew Chang , Aditya Prakash , Saurabh Gupta

Egocentric videos capture sequences of human activities from a first-person perspective and can provide rich multimodal signals. However, most current localization methods use third-person videos and only incorporate visual information. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-27 Merey Ramazanova , Victor Escorcia , Fabian Caba Heilbron , Chen Zhao , Bernard Ghanem

Artificial intelligence is essential to succeed in challenging activities that involve dynamic environments, such as object manipulation tasks in indoor scenes. Most of the state-of-the-art literature explores robotic grasping methods by…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-05-28 Paola Ardón , Èric Pairet , Ron Petrick , Subramanian Ramamoorthy , Katrin Lohan

The emergence of low-cost personal mobiles devices and wearable cameras and the increasing storage capacity of video-sharing websites have pushed forward a growing interest towards first-person videos. Since most of the recorded videos…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-17 Michel Melo Silva , Washington Luis Souza Ramos , Joao Pedro Klock Ferreira , Mario Fernando Montenegro Campos , Erickson Rangel Nascimento

Understanding human behavior from complementary egocentric (ego) and exocentric (exo) points of view enables the development of systems that can support workers in industrial environments and enhance their safety. However, progress in this…

Wearable cameras allow to collect images and videos of humans interacting with the world. While human-object interactions have been thoroughly investigated in third person vision, the problem has been understudied in egocentric settings and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Francesco Ragusa , Antonino Furnari , Salvatore Livatino , Giovanni Maria Farinella

First-person stories can be analyzed by means of egocentric pictures acquired throughout the whole active day with wearable cameras. This manuscript presents an egocentric dataset with more than 45,000 pictures from four people in different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-26 Pedro Herruzo , Laura Portell , Alberto Soto , Beatriz Remeseiro

Generative world models have shown promise for simulating dynamic environments, yet egocentric video remains challenging due to rapid viewpoint changes, frequent hand-object interactions, and goal-directed procedures whose evolution depends…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Yifan Shen , Jiateng Liu , Xinzhuo Li , Yuanzhe Liu , Bingxuan Li , Houze Yang , Wenqi Jia , Yijiang Li , Tianjiao Yu , James Matthew Rehg , Xu Cao , Ismini Lourentzou

We present EgoExo-Fitness, a new full-body action understanding dataset, featuring fitness sequence videos recorded from synchronized egocentric and fixed exocentric (third-person) cameras. Compared with existing full-body action…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Yuan-Ming Li , Wei-Jin Huang , An-Lan Wang , Ling-An Zeng , Jing-Ke Meng , Wei-Shi Zheng

Equipping visitors of a cultural site with a wearable device allows to easily collect information about their preferences which can be exploited to improve the fruition of cultural goods with augmented reality. Moreover, egocentric video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-04 Francesco Ragusa , Antonino Furnari , Sebastiano Battiato , Giovanni Signorello , Giovanni Maria Farinella

In this paper, we present a novel approach for learning bimanual manipulation actions from human demonstration by extracting spatial constraints between affordance regions, termed affordance constraints, of the objects involved. Affordance…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Björn S. Plonka , Christian Dreher , Andre Meixner , Rainer Kartmann , Tamim Asfour

Estimating human pose using a front-facing egocentric camera is essential for applications such as sports motion analysis, VR/AR, and AI for wearable devices. However, many existing methods rely on RGB cameras and do not account for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Wataru Ikeda , Masashi Hatano , Ryosei Hara , Mariko Isogawa