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Egocentric vision consists in acquiring images along the day from a first person point-of-view using wearable cameras. The automatic analysis of this information allows to discover daily patterns for improving the quality of life of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-10 Marc Bolaños , Álvaro Peris , Francisco Casacuberta , Sergi Soler , Petia Radeva

Egocentric vision captures the scene from the point of view of the camera wearer, while exocentric vision captures the overall scene context. Jointly modeling ego and exo views is crucial to developing next-generation AI agents. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-12 Anirudh Thatipelli , Shao-Yuan Lo , Amit K. Roy-Chowdhury

Imitation learning for manipulation has a well-known data scarcity problem. Unlike natural language and 2D computer vision, there is no Internet-scale corpus of data for dexterous manipulation. One appealing option is egocentric human…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Ryan Hoque , Peide Huang , David J. Yoon , Mouli Sivapurapu , Jian Zhang

Egocentric memory is widely used in embodied intelligence, but it may be insufficient for comprehensive spatial-temporal reasoning. Inspired by human recall from both field and observer perspectives, we introduce EgoExoMem, the first…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Ruiping Liu , Junwei Zheng , Yufan Chen , Di Wen , Shaofang Quan , Chengzhi Wu , Jiaming Zhang , Kailun Yang , Kunyu Peng , Rainer Stiefelhagen

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

The egocentric and exocentric viewpoints of a human activity look dramatically different, yet invariant representations to link them are essential for many potential applications in robotics and augmented reality. Prior work is limited to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Zihui Xue , Kristen Grauman

Understanding the world in first-person view is fundamental in Augmented Reality (AR). This immersive perspective brings dramatic visual changes and unique challenges compared to third-person views. Synthetic data has empowered…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-12 Gen Li , Kaifeng Zhao , Siwei Zhang , Xiaozhong Lyu , Mihai Dusmanu , Yan Zhang , Marc Pollefeys , Siyu Tang

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

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

Real robot data collection for imitation learning has led to significant advancements in robotic manipulation. However, the requirement for robot hardware in the process fundamentally constrains the scale of the data. In this paper, we…

While exocentric video synthesis has achieved great progress, egocentric video generation remains largely underexplored, which requires modeling first-person view content along with camera motion patterns induced by the wearer's body…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Jingqiao Xiu , Fangzhou Hong , Yicong Li , Mengze Li , Wentao Wang , Sirui Han , Liang Pan , Ziwei Liu

Embodied robotic agents often perceive movies through an egocentric screen-view interface rather than native cinematic footage, introducing domain shifts such as viewpoint distortion, scale variation, illumination changes, and environmental…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Ze Dong , Hao Shi , Zejia Gao , Zhonghua Yi , Kaiwei Wang , Lin Wang

Imitation learning based visuomotor policies have achieved strong performance in robotic manipulation, yet they often remain sensitive to egocentric viewpoint shifts. Unlike third-person viewpoint changes that only move the camera,…

Collecting large-scale egocentric video datasets with dense spatial and temporal annotations is costly, slow, and often constrained by environmental biases, privacy constraints, and limited coverage of interaction patterns. While synthetic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Rosario Leonardi , Francesco Ragusa , Daniele Materia , Alessandro Passanisi , James Fort , Jakob Engel , Giovanni Maria Farinella

Recent advancements in Multi-modal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have opened new avenues for applications in Embodied AI. Building on previous work, EgoThink, we introduce VidEgoThink, a comprehensive benchmark for evaluating egocentric…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-16 Sijie Cheng , Kechen Fang , Yangyang Yu , Sicheng Zhou , Bohao Li , Ye Tian , Tingguang Li , Lei Han , Yang Liu

This paper investigates the problem of understanding dynamic 3D scenes from egocentric observations, a key challenge in robotics and embodied AI. Unlike prior studies that explored this as long-form video understanding and utilized…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-10 Yue Fan , Xiaojian Ma , Rongpeng Su , Jun Guo , Rujie Wu , Xi Chen , Qing Li

We present Ego-Only, the first approach that enables state-of-the-art action detection on egocentric (first-person) videos without any form of exocentric (third-person) transferring. Despite the content and appearance gap separating the two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Huiyu Wang , Mitesh Kumar Singh , Lorenzo Torresani

This research aims to comprehensively explore building a multimodal foundation model for egocentric video understanding. To achieve this goal, we work on three fronts. First, as there is a lack of QA data for egocentric video understanding,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Hanrong Ye , Haotian Zhang , Erik Daxberger , Lin Chen , Zongyu Lin , Yanghao Li , Bowen Zhang , Haoxuan You , Dan Xu , Zhe Gan , Jiasen Lu , Yinfei Yang

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

Ultra-long egocentric videos spanning multiple days present significant challenges for video understanding. Existing approaches still rely on fragmented local processing and limited temporal modeling, restricting their ability to reason…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Shitong Sun , Ke Han , Yukai Huang , Weitong Cai , Jifei Song