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Understanding action recognition in egocentric videos has emerged as a vital research topic with numerous practical applications. With the limitation in the scale of egocentric data collection, learning robust deep learning-based action…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Thanh-Dat Truong , Khoa Luu

Evaluating the nuanced human-centric video understanding capabilities of Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) remains a great challenge, as existing benchmarks often overlook the intricacies of emotion, behavior, and cross-modal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Ting Zhou , Daoyuan Chen , Qirui Jiao , Bolin Ding , Yaliang Li , Ying Shen

In egocentric videos, actions occur in quick succession. We capitalise on the action's temporal context and propose a method that learns to attend to surrounding actions in order to improve recognition performance. To incorporate the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Evangelos Kazakos , Jaesung Huh , Arsha Nagrani , Andrew Zisserman , Dima Damen

Egocentric interactive world models are essential for augmented reality and embodied AI, where visual generation must respond to user input with low latency, geometric consistency, and long-term stability. We study egocentric interaction…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Yuxi Wang , Wenqi Ouyang , Tianyi Wei , Yi Dong , Zhiqi Shen , Xingang Pan

For efficient human-agent interaction, an agent should proactively recognize their target user and prepare for upcoming interactions. We formulate this challenging problem as the novel task of jointly forecasting a person's intent to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-09 Tongfei Bian , Yiming Ma , Mathieu Chollet , Victor Sanchez , Tanaya Guha

We introduce EASG-Bench, a question-answering benchmark for egocentric videos where the question-answering pairs are created from spatio-temporally grounded dynamic scene graphs capturing intricate relationships among actors, actions, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Ivan Rodin , Tz-Ying Wu , Kyle Min , Sharath Nittur Sridhar , Antonino Furnari , Subarna Tripathi , Giovanni Maria Farinella

Learning to infer labels in an open world, i.e., in an environment where the target ``labels'' are unknown, is an important characteristic for achieving autonomy. Foundation models, pre-trained on enormous amounts of data, have shown…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-06 Sanjoy Kundu , Shubham Trehan , Sathyanarayanan N. Aakur

Action recognition is essential for egocentric video understanding, allowing automatic and continuous monitoring of Activities of Daily Living (ADLs) without user effort. Existing literature focuses on 3D hand pose input, which requires…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-25 Wiktor Mucha , Martin Kampel

Capturing interaction of hands with objects is important to autonomously detect human actions from egocentric videos. In this work, we present a pyramid video transformer with a dynamic class token generator for egocentric action…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-17 Chenbin Pan , Zhiqi Zhang , Senem Velipasalar , Yi Xu

In this paper we propose an end-to-end trainable deep neural network model for egocentric activity recognition. Our model is built on the observation that egocentric activities are highly characterized by the objects and their locations in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-01 Swathikiran Sudhakaran , Oswald Lanz

Next-generation visual assistants, such as smart glasses, embodied agents, and always-on life-logging systems, must reason over an entire day or more of continuous visual experience. In ultra-long video settings, relevant information is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Ziyang Wang , Yue Zhang , Shoubin Yu , Ce Zhang , Zengqi Zhao , Jaehong Yoon , Hyunji Lee , Gedas Bertasius , Mohit Bansal

While Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have advanced highlevel reasoning in autonomous driving, their ability to ground this reasoning in the underlying physics of ego-motion remains poorly understood. We introduce EgoDyn-Bench, a diagnostic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Finn Rasmus Schäfer , Yuan Gao , Dingrui Wang , Thomas Stauner , Stephan Günnemann , Mattia Piccinini , Sebastian Schmidt , Johannes Betz

Smart glass is emerging as an useful device since it provides plenty of insights under hands-busy, eyes-on-task situations. To understand the context of the wearer, 6D object pose estimation in egocentric view is becoming essential.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Taegyoon Yoon , Yegyu Han , Seojin Ji , Jaewoo Park , Sojeong Kim , Taein Kwon , Hyung-Sin Kim

Deploying humanoid robots in real-world settings is fundamentally challenging, as it demands tight integration of perception, locomotion, and manipulation under partial-information observations and dynamically changing environments. As well…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Yu Bai , MingMing Yu , Chaojie Li , Ziyi Bai , Xinlong Wang , Börje F. Karlsson

This paper deals with the problem of localizing objects in image and video datasets from visual exemplars. In particular, we focus on the challenging problem of egocentric visual query localization. We first identify grave implicit biases…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-07 Mengmeng Xu , Yanghao Li , Cheng-Yang Fu , Bernard Ghanem , Tao Xiang , Juan-Manuel Perez-Rua

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

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

As the demand for analyzing egocentric videos grows, egocentric visual attention prediction, anticipating where a camera wearer will attend, has garnered increasing attention. However, it remains challenging due to the inherent complexity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Sungjune Park , Hongda Mao , Qingshuang Chen , Yong Man Ro , Yelin Kim

In this study, we investigate various computer vision paradigms - supervised learning, unsupervised learning, and prompt fine-tuning - by assessing their ability to understand and interpret egocentric video data. Specifically, we examine…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-30 Daniel Wen

We present EgoHumans, a new multi-view multi-human video benchmark to advance the state-of-the-art of egocentric human 3D pose estimation and tracking. Existing egocentric benchmarks either capture single subject or indoor-only scenarios,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Rawal Khirodkar , Aayush Bansal , Lingni Ma , Richard Newcombe , Minh Vo , Kris Kitani