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Affordance-centric Question-driven Task Completion for Egocentric Assistant(AQTC) is a novel task which helps AI assistant learn from instructional videos and scripts and guide the user step-by-step. In this paper, we deal with the AQTC via…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-23 Shiwei Wu , Weidong He , Tong Xu , Hao Wang , Enhong Chen

We introduce EgoLife, a project to develop an egocentric life assistant that accompanies and enhances personal efficiency through AI-powered wearable glasses. To lay the foundation for this assistant, we conducted a comprehensive data…

Affordance, defined as the potential actions that an object offers, is crucial for embodied AI agents. For example, such knowledge directs an agent to grasp a knife by the handle for cutting or by the blade for safe handover. While existing…

Affordance-centric Question-driven Task Completion (AQTC) for Egocentric Assistant introduces a groundbreaking scenario. In this scenario, through learning instructional videos, AI assistants provide users with step-by-step guidance on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Chao Zhang , Shiwei Wu , Sirui Zhao , Tong Xu , Enhong Chen

Understanding human tasks through video observations is an essential capability of intelligent agents. The challenges of such capability lie in the difficulty of generating a detailed understanding of situated actions, their effects on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Baoxiong Jia , Ting Lei , Song-Chun Zhu , Siyuan Huang

Visual affordance learning is a key component for robots to understand how to interact with objects. Conventional approaches in this field rely on pre-defined objects and actions, falling short of capturing diverse interactions in realworld…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-04 Tomoya Yoshida , Shuhei Kurita , Taichi Nishimura , Shinsuke Mori

Understanding and answering questions based on a user's pointing gesture is essential for next-generation egocentric AI assistants. However, current Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) struggle with such tasks due to the lack of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Yura Choi , Roy Miles , Rolandos Alexandros Potamias , Ismail Elezi , Jiankang Deng , Stefanos Zafeiriou

Many everyday tasks ranging from fixing appliances, cooking recipes to car maintenance require expert knowledge, especially when tasks are complex and multi-step. Despite growing interest in AI agents, there is a scarcity of dialogue-video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Lavisha Aggarwal , Vikas Bahirwani , Lin Li , Andrea Colaco

It is still a pipe dream that personal AI assistants on the phone and AR glasses can assist our daily life in addressing our questions like ``how to adjust the date for this watch?'' and ``how to set its heating duration? (while pointing at…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Stan Weixian Lei , Difei Gao , Yuxuan Wang , Dongxing Mao , Zihan Liang , Lingmin Ran , Mike Zheng Shou

Egocentric augmented reality devices such as wearable glasses passively capture visual data as a human wearer tours a home environment. We envision a scenario wherein the human communicates with an AI agent powering such a device by asking…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-04 Samyak Datta , Sameer Dharur , Vincent Cartillier , Ruta Desai , Mukul Khanna , Dhruv Batra , Devi Parikh

Recent advances in conversational AI have been substantial, but developing real-time systems for perceptual task guidance remains challenging. These systems must provide interactive, proactive assistance based on streaming visual inputs,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Yichi Zhang , Xin Luna Dong , Zhaojiang Lin , Andrea Madotto , Anuj Kumar , Babak Damavandi , Joyce Chai , Seungwhan Moon

Video Question Answering (VideoQA) is a task that requires a model to analyze and understand both the visual content given by the input video and the textual part given by the question, and the interaction between them in order to produce a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-25 Alex Falcon , Oswald Lanz , Giuseppe Serra

Many everyday tasks, ranging from appliance repair and cooking to car maintenance, require expert knowledge, particularly for complex, multi-step procedures. Despite growing interest in AI agents for augmented reality (AR) assistance,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Lavisha Aggarwal , Vikas Bahirwani , Andrea Colaco

Object affordance is an important concept in human-object interaction, providing information on action possibilities based on human motor capacity and objects' physical property thus benefiting tasks such as action anticipation and robot…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-14 Zecheng Yu , Yifei Huang , Ryosuke Furuta , Takuma Yagi , Yusuke Goutsu , Yoichi Sato

Driven by recent advances in vision-language models (VLMs) and egocentric perception research, the emerging topic of an egocentric procedural AI assistant (EgoProceAssist) is introduced to step-by-step support daily procedural tasks in a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Junlong Li , Huaiyuan Xu , Sijie Cheng , Kejun Wu , Kim-Hui Yap , Lap-Pui Chau , Yi Wang

We present EgoFun3D, a coordinated task formulation, dataset, and benchmark for modeling interactive 3D objects from egocentric videos. Interactive objects are of high interest for embodied AI but scarce, making modeling from readily…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Weikun Peng , Denys Iliash , Manolis Savva

By 2050, the global demand for assistive care is expected to reach 3.5 billion people, far outpacing the availability of human caregivers. Existing robotic solutions remain expensive and require technical expertise, limiting accessibility.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Dharunish Yugeswardeenoo

Object affordance is an important concept in hand-object interaction, providing information on action possibilities based on human motor capacity and objects' physical property thus benefiting tasks such as action anticipation and robot…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-13 Zecheng Yu , Yifei Huang , Ryosuke Furuta , Takuma Yagi , Yusuke Goutsu , Yoichi Sato

Despite extensive efforts on egocentric video datasets and benchmarks, understanding users' internal states, which is crucial for enabling seamless AI assistant experiences, remains largely overlooked. In this work, we introduce…

Multimodal AI agents are increasingly automating complex real-world workflows that involve online web execution. However, current web-agent benchmarks suffer from a critical limitation: they focus entirely on web-based interaction and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Shoubin Yu , Lei Shu , Antoine Yang , Yao Fu , Srinivas Sunkara , Maria Wang , Jindong Chen , Mohit Bansal , Boqing Gong
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