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Procedural tasks with multiple ordered steps are ubiquitous in daily life. Recent advances in multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have enabled personal assistants that support daily activities. However, existing systems primarily…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Lilin Xu , Bufang Yang , Siyang Jiang , Kaiwei Liu , Kaiyuan Hou , Yuang Fan , Hongkai Chen , Zhenyu Yan , Xiaofan Jiang

Long context egocentric video understanding has recently attracted significant research attention, with augmented reality (AR) highlighted as one of its most important application domains. Nevertheless, the task remains highly challenging…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Qiance Tang , Ziqi Wang , Jieyu Lin , Ziyun Li , Barbara De Salvo , Sai Qian Zhang

We introduce WearVQA, the first benchmark specifically designed to evaluate the Visual Question Answering (VQA) capabilities of multi-model AI assistant on wearable devices like smart glasses. Unlike prior benchmarks that focus on…

What if accessing the web did not require a screen, a stable desk, or even free hands? For people navigating crowded cities, living with low vision, or experiencing cognitive overload, smart glasses coupled with AI agents could turn the web…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Sicheng Yang , Yukai Huang , Weitong Cai , Shitong Sun , Fengyi Fang , You He , Yiqiao Xie , Jiankang Deng , Hang Zhang , Jifei Song , Zhensong Zhang

We introduce EgoTextVQA, a novel and rigorously constructed benchmark for egocentric QA assistance involving scene text. EgoTextVQA contains 1.5K ego-view videos and 7K scene-text aware questions that reflect real user needs in outdoor…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-24 Sheng Zhou , Junbin Xiao , Qingyun Li , Yicong Li , Xun Yang , Dan Guo , Meng Wang , Tat-Seng Chua , Angela Yao

Affordance-Centric Question-driven Task Completion (AQTC) has been proposed to acquire knowledge from videos to furnish users with comprehensive and systematic instructions. However, existing methods have hitherto neglected the necessity of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-26 Tom Tongjia Chen , Hongshan Yu , Zhengeng Yang , Ming Li , Zechuan Li , Jingwen Wang , Wei Miao , Wei Sun , Chen Chen

Complex physical tasks entail a sequence of object interactions, each with its own preconditions -- which can be difficult for robotic agents to learn efficiently solely through their own experience. We introduce an approach to discover…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-18 Tushar Nagarajan , Kristen Grauman

Learning action models from real-world human-centric interaction datasets is important towards building general-purpose intelligent assistants with efficiency. However, most existing datasets only offer specialist interaction category and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Liang Xu , Chengqun Yang , Zili Lin , Fei Xu , Yifan Liu , Congsheng Xu , Yiyi Zhang , Jie Qin , Xingdong Sheng , Yunhui Liu , Xin Jin , Yichao Yan , Wenjun Zeng , Xiaokang Yang

Assistive agents should make humans' lives easier. Classically, such assistance is studied through the lens of inverse reinforcement learning, where an assistive agent (e.g., a chatbot, a robot) infers a human's intention and then selects…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-01-17 Vivek Myers , Evan Ellis , Sergey Levine , Benjamin Eysenbach , Anca Dragan

In this paper, we focus on the Audio-Visual Question Answering (AVQA) task, which aims to answer questions regarding different visual objects, sounds, and their associations in videos. The problem requires comprehensive multimodal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-06 Guangyao Li , Yake Wei , Yapeng Tian , Chenliang Xu , Ji-Rong Wen , Di Hu

This work addresses challenges in developing conversational assistants that support rich multimodal video interactions to accomplish real-world tasks interactively. We introduce the task of automatically linking instructional videos to task…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-08-24 Sophie Fischer , Carlos Gemmell , Iain Mackie , Jeffrey Dalton

Vision-based robot learning often relies on dense image or point-cloud inputs, which are computationally heavy and entangle irrelevant background features. Existing keypoint-based approaches can focus on manipulation-centric features and be…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Anukriti Singh , Kasra Torshizi , Khuzema Habib , Kelin Yu , Ruohan Gao , Pratap Tokekar

The emergence of advanced multimodal large language models (MLLMs) has significantly enhanced AI assistants' ability to process complex information across modalities. Recently, egocentric videos, by directly capturing user focus, actions,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Taiying Peng , Jiacheng Hua , Miao Liu , Feng Lu

Different video understanding tasks are typically treated in isolation, and even with distinct types of curated data (e.g., classifying sports in one dataset, tracking animals in another). However, in wearable cameras, the immersive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-10 Zihui Xue , Yale Song , Kristen Grauman , Lorenzo Torresani

Affordances - i.e. possibilities for action that an environment or objects in it provide - are important for robots operating in human environments to perceive. Existing approaches train such capabilities on annotated static images or…

Egocentric assistants often rely on first-person view data to capture user behavior and context for personalized services. Since different users exhibit distinct habits, preferences, and routines, such personalization is essential for truly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Yanshuo Wang , Yuan Xu , Xuesong Li , Jie Hong , Yizhou Wang , Chang Wen Chen , Wentao Zhu

When using language models (LMs) to solve complex problems, humans might struggle to understand the LM-generated solutions and repair the flawed ones. To assist humans in repairing them, we propose to automatically decompose complex…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Jiaxin Wen , Ruiqi Zhong , Pei Ke , Zhihong Shao , Hongning Wang , Minlie Huang

Long-term action anticipation from egocentric video is critical for applications such as human-computer interaction and assistive technologies, where anticipating user intent enables proactive and context-aware AI assistance. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Qiaohui Chu , Haoyu Zhang , Meng Liu , Yisen Feng , Haoxiang Shi , Liqiang Nie

Most existing benchmarks for understanding egocentric vision focus primarily on daytime scenarios, overlooking the low-light conditions that are inevitable in real-world applications. To investigate this gap, we present EgoNight, the first…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Deheng Zhang , Yuqian Fu , Runyi Yang , Yang Miao , Tianwen Qian , Xu Zheng , Guolei Sun , Ajad Chhatkuli , Xuanjing Huang , Yu-Gang Jiang , Luc Van Gool , Danda Pani Paudel

Graphical User Interface (GUI) automation holds significant promise for assisting users with complex tasks, thereby boosting human productivity. Existing works leveraging Large Language Model (LLM) or LLM-based AI agents have shown…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-02 Difei Gao , Lei Ji , Zechen Bai , Mingyu Ouyang , Peiran Li , Dongxing Mao , Qinchen Wu , Weichen Zhang , Peiyi Wang , Xiangwu Guo , Hengxu Wang , Luowei Zhou , Mike Zheng Shou