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Video-Language Pretraining (VLP), which aims to learn transferable representation to advance a wide range of video-text downstream tasks, has recently received increasing attention. Best performing works rely on large-scale, 3rd-person…

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

The rapid evolution of egocentric video analysis brings new insights into understanding human activities and intentions from a first-person perspective. Despite this progress, the fragmentation in tasks like action recognition, procedure…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Jing Bi , Yunlong Tang , Luchuan Song , Ali Vosoughi , Nguyen Nguyen , Chenliang Xu

The rapid progress of Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) marks a significant step toward artificial general intelligence, offering great potential for augmenting human capabilities. However, their ability to provide effective…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Hengjian Gao , Kaiwei Zhang , Shibo Wang , Mingjie Chen , Qihang Cao , Xianfeng Wang , Yucheng Zhu , Xiongkuo Min , Wei Sun , Dandan Zhu , Guangtao Zhai

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

Humans excel at spatial-temporal reasoning, effortlessly interpreting dynamic visual events from an egocentric viewpoint. However, whether multimodal large language models (MLLMs) can similarly understand the 4D world remains uncertain.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Peiran Wu , Yunze Liu , Miao Liu , Junxiao Shen

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

Large vision-language models (LVLMs) are increasingly deployed in interactive applications such as virtual and augmented reality, where a first-person (egocentric) view captured by head-mounted cameras serves as key input. While this view…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Insu Lee , Wooje Park , Jaeyun Jang , Minyoung Noh , Kyuhong Shim , Byonghyo Shim

Recent advances in Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have significantly pushed the frontier of egocentric video question answering (EgocentricQA). However, existing benchmarks and studies are mainly limited to common daily activities…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Yanjun Li , Yuqian Fu , Tianwen Qian , Qi'ao Xu , Silong Dai , Danda Pani Paudel , Luc Van Gool , Xiaoling Wang

Driven by recent advances in vision-language models (VLMs) and egocentric perception research, the emerging topic of an egocentric procedural AI assistant (EgoProceAssist) is introduced to step-by-step support daily procedural tasks in a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Junlong Li , Huaiyuan Xu , Sijie Cheng , Kejun Wu , Kim-Hui Yap , Lap-Pui Chau , Yi Wang

Egocentric AI agents, such as smart glasses, rely on pointing gestures to resolve referential ambiguities in natural language commands. However, despite advancements in Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs), current systems often fail to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Chentao Li , Zirui Gao , Mingze Gao , Yinglian Ren , Jianjiang Feng , Jie Zhou

Children acquire language grounding with remarkable robustness from limited visuo-linguistic input in ways that surpass today's best large multimodal models. Recent research suggests current vision-language models (VLMs) trained on curated…

Existing Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) remain primarily reactive, failing to continuously perceive environments or proactively assist users. While emerging benchmarks address proactivity, they are largely confined to alert…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Dongchuan Ran , Linyu Ou , Xueheng Li , Wenwen Tong , Chenxu Guo , Hewei Guo , Kaibing Wang , Lewei Lu

Recently, Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have achieved exceptional performance across diverse tasks, continually surpassing previous expectations regarding their capabilities. Nevertheless, their proficiency in perceiving emotions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Daiqing Wu , Dongbao Yang , Sicheng Zhao , Can Ma , Yu Zhou

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

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) struggle with complex video QA benchmarks like HD-EPIC VQA due to ambiguous queries/options, poor long-range temporal reasoning, and non-standardized outputs. We propose a framework integrating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Sicheng Yang , Yukai Huang , Shitong Sun , Weitong Cai , Jiankang Deng , Jifei Song , Zhensong Zhang

The realization of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) necessitates Embodied AI agents capable of robust spatial perception, effective task planning, and adaptive execution in physical environments. However, current large language models…

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

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

Egocentric video-language pretraining has significantly advanced video representation learning. Humans perceive and interact with a fully 3D world, developing spatial awareness that extends beyond text-based understanding. However, most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-05 Boshen Xu , Yuting Mei , Xinbi Liu , Sipeng Zheng , Qin Jin