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The ability to anticipate human-object interactions is highly desirable in an intelligent assistive system in order to guide users during daily life activities and understand their short and long-term goals. Creating systems with such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Daniele Materia , Francesco Ragusa , Giovanni Maria Farinella

We introduce an object-aware decoder for improving the performance of spatio-temporal representations on ego-centric videos. The key idea is to enhance object-awareness during training by tasking the model to predict hand positions, object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-16 Chuhan Zhang , Ankush Gupta , Andrew Zisserman

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

Generating instructional images of human daily actions from an egocentric viewpoint serves as a key step towards efficient skill transfer. In this paper, we introduce a novel problem -- egocentric action frame generation. The goal is to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-25 Bolin Lai , Xiaoliang Dai , Lawrence Chen , Guan Pang , James M. Rehg , Miao Liu

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have demonstrated remarkable video reasoning capabilities across diverse tasks. However, their ability to understand human intent at a fine-grained level in egocentric videos remains largely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Ye Pan , Chi Kit Wong , Yuanhuiyi Lyu , Hanqian Li , Jiahao Huo , Jiacheng Chen , Lutao Jiang , Xu Zheng , Xuming Hu

Emerging embodied AI applications, such as wearable cameras and autonomous agents, have underscored the need for robust reasoning from first person video streams. We introduce EgoVLM, a vision-language model specifically designed to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Ashwin Vinod , Shrey Pandit , Aditya Vavre , Linshen Liu

Pretraining egocentric vision-language models has become essential to improving downstream egocentric video-text tasks. These egocentric foundation models commonly use the transformer architecture. The memory footprint of these models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Hector A. Valdez , Kyle Min , Subarna Tripathi

We present Vinci, a vision-language system designed to provide real-time, comprehensive AI assistance on portable devices. At its core, Vinci leverages EgoVideo-VL, a novel model that integrates an egocentric vision foundation model with a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Yifei Huang , Jilan Xu , Baoqi Pei , Yuping He , Guo Chen , Mingfang Zhang , Lijin Yang , Zheng Nie , Jinyao Liu , Guoshun Fan , Dechen Lin , Fang Fang , Kunpeng Li , Chang Yuan , Xinyuan Chen , Yaohui Wang , Yali Wang , Yu Qiao , Limin Wang

AI personal assistants, deployed through robots or wearables, require embodied understanding to collaborate effectively with humans. However, current Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) primarily focus on third-person (exocentric)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Haoyu Zhang , Qiaohui Chu , Meng Liu , Haoxiang Shi , Yaowei Wang , Liqiang Nie

Egocentric videos capture how humans manipulate objects and tools, providing diverse motion cues for learning object manipulation. Unlike the costly, expert-driven manual teleoperation commonly used in training Vision-Language-Action models…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Tomoya Yoshida , Shuhei Kurita , Taichi Nishimura , Shinsuke Mori

The emergence of multimodal large language models (MLLMs) has driven breakthroughs in egocentric vision applications. These applications necessitate persistent, context-aware understanding of objects, as users interact with tools in dynamic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Yuqian Yuan , Ronghao Dang , Long Li , Wentong Li , Dian Jiao , Xin Li , Deli Zhao , Fan Wang , Wenqiao Zhang , Jun Xiao , Yueting Zhuang

The rapid development of Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) has led to growing interest in egocentric video understanding, specifically the ability for MLLMs to recognize fine-grained hand-object interactions, track object state…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Yang Dai , Dian Jiao , Tianwei Lin , Wenqiao Zhang

Egocentric hand-object motion generation is crucial for immersive AR/VR and robotic imitation but remains challenging due to unstable viewpoints, self-occlusions, perspective distortion, and noisy ego-motion. Existing methods rely on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Bohan Zhou , Yi Zhan , Zhongbin Zhang , Zongqing Lu

We propose EgoGrasp, the first method to reconstruct world-space hand-object interactions (W-HOI) from dynamic egoview videos, supporting open-vocabulary objects. Accurate W-HOI reconstruction is critical for embodied intelligence yet…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Hongming Fu , Wenjia Wang , Xiaozhen Qiao , Rolandos Alexandros Potamias , Taku Komura , Shuo Yang , Zheng Liu , Bo Zhao

Understanding fine-grained temporal dynamics is crucial in egocentric videos, where continuous streams capture frequent, close-up interactions with objects. In this work, we bring to light that current egocentric video question-answering…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Chiara Plizzari , Alessio Tonioni , Yongqin Xian , Achin Kulshrestha , Federico Tombari

Visual grounding associates textual descriptions with objects in an image. Conventional methods target third-person image inputs and named object queries. In applications such as AI assistants, the perspective shifts -- inputs are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-21 Pengzhan Sun , Junbin Xiao , Tze Ho Elden Tse , Yicong Li , Arjun Akula , Angela Yao

Robust 3D hand reconstruction in egocentric vision is challenging due to depth ambiguity, self-occlusion, and complex hand-object interactions. Prior methods mitigate these issues by scaling training data or adding auxiliary cues, but they…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Binzhu Xie , Shi Qiu , Sicheng Zhang , Yinqiao Wang , Hao Xu , Muzammal Naseer , Chi-Wing Fu , Pheng-Ann Heng

We propose a novel benchmark for cross-view knowledge transfer of dense video captioning, adapting models from web instructional videos with exocentric views to an egocentric view. While dense video captioning (predicting time segments and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Takehiko Ohkawa , Takuma Yagi , Taichi Nishimura , Ryosuke Furuta , Atsushi Hashimoto , Yoshitaka Ushiku , Yoichi Sato

Learning an egocentric action recognition model from video data is challenging due to distractors (e.g., irrelevant objects) in the background. Further integrating object information into an action model is hence beneficial. Existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-04 Victor Escorcia , Ricardo Guerrero , Xiatian Zhu , Brais Martinez

Generating long, coherent egocentric videos is difficult, as hand-object interactions and procedural tasks require reliable long-term memory. Existing autoregressive models suffer from content drift, where object identity and scene…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-05 Liuzhou Zhang , Jiarui Ye , Yuanlei Wang , Ming Zhong , Mingju Cao , Wanke Xia , Bowen Zeng , Zeyu Zhang , Hao Tang