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First-person video highlights a camera-wearer's activities in the context of their persistent environment. However, current video understanding approaches reason over visual features from short video clips that are detached from the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-13 Tushar Nagarajan , Santhosh Kumar Ramakrishnan , Ruta Desai , James Hillis , Kristen Grauman

The goal of the Step Grounding task is to locate temporal boundaries of activities based on natural language descriptions. This technical report introduces a Bayesian-VSLNet to address the challenge of identifying such temporal segments in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Carlos Plou , Lorenzo Mur-Labadia , Ruben Martinez-Cantin , Ana C. Murillo

In this report, we present a novel three-stage framework developed for the Ego4D Long-Term Action Anticipation (LTA) task. Inspired by recent advances in foundation models, our method consists of three stages: feature extraction, action…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Qiaohui Chu , Haoyu Zhang , Yisen Feng , Meng Liu , Weili Guan , Yaowei Wang , Liqiang Nie

Vision-language models (VLMs) have recently shown promising results in traditional downstream tasks. Evaluation studies have emerged to assess their abilities, with the majority focusing on the third-person perspective, and only a few…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-29 Sijie Cheng , Zhicheng Guo , Jingwen Wu , Kechen Fang , Peng Li , Huaping Liu , Yang Liu

Transferring and integrating knowledge across first-person (egocentric) and third-person (exocentric) viewpoints is intrinsic to human intelligence, enabling humans to learn from others and convey insights from their own experiences.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Yuping He , Yifei Huang , Guo Chen , Baoqi Pei , Jilan Xu , Tong Lu , Jiangmiao Pang

Understanding egocentric videos plays a vital role for embodied intelligence. Recent multi-modal large language models (MLLMs) can accept both visual and audio inputs. However, due to the challenge of obtaining text labels with coherent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Ashish Seth , Xinhao Mei , Changsheng Zhao , Varun Nagaraja , Ernie Chang , Gregory P. Meyer , Gael Le Lan , Yunyang Xiong , Vikas Chandra , Yangyang Shi , Dinesh Manocha , Zhipeng Cai

We present EgoBlind, the first egocentric VideoQA dataset collected from blind individuals to evaluate the assistive capabilities of contemporary multimodal large language models (MLLMs). EgoBlind comprises 1,392 first-person videos from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Junbin Xiao , Nanxin Huang , Hao Qiu , Zhulin Tao , Xun Yang , Richang Hong , Meng Wang , Angela Yao

We present EgoCOL, an egocentric camera pose estimation method for open-world 3D object localization. Our method leverages sparse camera pose reconstructions in a two-fold manner, video and scan independently, to estimate the camera pose of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-30 Cristhian Forigua , Maria Escobar , Jordi Pont-Tuset , Kevis-Kokitsi Maninis , Pablo Arbeláez

In Composed Video Retrieval, a video and a textual description which modifies the video content are provided as inputs to the model. The aim is to retrieve the relevant video with the modified content from a database of videos. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-24 Thomas Hummel , Shyamgopal Karthik , Mariana-Iuliana Georgescu , Zeynep Akata

We present EMBED (Egocentric Models Built with Exocentric Data), a method designed to transform exocentric video-language data for egocentric video representation learning. Large-scale exocentric data covers diverse activities with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-08 Zi-Yi Dou , Xitong Yang , Tushar Nagarajan , Huiyu Wang , Jing Huang , Nanyun Peng , Kris Kitani , Fu-Jen Chu

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have shown great success as foundational models for downstream vision and natural language applications in a variety of domains. However, these models are limited to reasoning over objects and actions currently…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Zachary Chavis , Hyun Soo Park , Stephen J. Guy

This report presents ReLER submission to two tracks in the Ego4D Episodic Memory Benchmark in CVPR 2023, including Natural Language Queries and Moment Queries. This solution inherits from our proposed Action Sensitivity Learning framework…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Jiayi Shao , Xiaohan Wang , Ruijie Quan , Yi Yang

Egocentric video reasoning centers on an unobservable agent behind the camera who dynamically shapes the environment, requiring inference of hidden intentions and recognition of fine-grained interactions. This core challenge limits current…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Baoqi Pei , Yifei Huang , Jilan Xu , Yuping He , Guo Chen , Fei Wu , Yu Qiao , Jiangmiao Pang

Vision-Language Navigation (VLN) is a core challenge in embodied AI, requiring agents to navigate real-world environments using natural language instructions. Current language model-based navigation systems operate on discrete topological…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-26 Zhangyang Qi , Zhixiong Zhang , Yizhou Yu , Jiaqi Wang , Hengshuang Zhao

We propose a self-supervised algorithm to learn representations from egocentric video data. Recently, significant efforts have been made to capture humans interacting with their own environments as they go about their daily activities. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-28 Himangi Mittal , Pedro Morgado , Unnat Jain , Abhinav Gupta

Egocentric video understanding requires procedural reasoning under partial observability and continuously shifting viewpoints. Current multimodal large language models (MLLMs) struggle with this setting, often generating plausible but…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Yogesh Kulkarni , Pooyan Fazli

Video-and-language pre-training has shown promising improvements on various downstream tasks. Most previous methods capture cross-modal interactions with a transformer-based multimodal encoder, not fully addressing the misalignment between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-24 Dongxu Li , Junnan Li , Hongdong Li , Juan Carlos Niebles , Steven C. H. Hoi

Understanding 3D spatial relationships remains a major limitation of current Vision-Language Models (VLMs). Prior work has addressed this issue by creating spatial question-answering (QA) datasets based on single images or indoor videos.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Mohsen Gholami , Ahmad Rezaei , Zhou Weimin , Sitong Mao , Shunbo Zhou , Yong Zhang , Mohammad Akbari

AI personal assistants deployed via robots or wearables require embodied understanding to collaborate with humans effectively. However, current Vision-Language Models (VLMs) primarily focus on third-person view videos, neglecting the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-24 Alessandro Suglia , Claudio Greco , Katie Baker , Jose L. Part , Ioannis Papaioannou , Arash Eshghi , Ioannis Konstas , Oliver Lemon

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have demonstrated remarkable performance in complex multimodal tasks. While MLLMs excel at visual perception and reasoning in third-person and egocentric videos, they are prone to hallucinations,…