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Egocentric videos capture scenes from a wearer's viewpoint, resulting in dynamic backgrounds, frequent motion, and occlusions, posing challenges to accurate keystep recognition. We propose a flexible graph-learning framework for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Julia Lee Romero , Kyle Min , Subarna Tripathi , Morteza Karimzadeh

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

Robotic generalization relies on physical intelligence: the ability to reason about state changes, contact-rich interactions, and long-horizon planning under egocentric perception and action. Vision Language Models (VLMs) are essential to…

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

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

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

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

Understanding human actions from videos of first-person view poses significant challenges. Most prior approaches explore representation learning on egocentric videos only, while overlooking the potential benefit of exploiting existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Jilan Xu , Yifei Huang , Junlin Hou , Guo Chen , Yuejie Zhang , Rui Feng , Weidi Xie

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

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have recently achieved remarkable progress in vision-language understanding. Yet, human perception is inherently multisensory, integrating sight, sound, and motion to reason about the world. Among…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Bingwen Zhu , Yuqian Fu , Qiaole Dong , Guolei Sun , Tianwen Qian , Yuzheng Wu , Danda Pani Paudel , Xiangyang Xue , Yanwei Fu

In human imitation learning, the imitator typically take the egocentric view as a benchmark, naturally transferring behaviors observed from an exocentric view to their owns, which provides inspiration for researching how robots can more…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Heqian Qiu , Zhaofeng Shi , Lanxiao Wang , Huiyu Xiong , Xiang Li , Hongliang Li

Egocentric Video Question Answering (QA) requires models to handle long-horizon temporal reasoning, first-person perspectives, and specialized challenges like frequent camera movement. This paper systematically evaluates both proprietary…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Alkesh Patel , Vibhav Chitalia , Yinfei Yang

Long-form egocentric video understanding provides rich contextual information and unique insights into long-term human behaviors, holding significant potential for applications in embodied intelligence, long-term activity analysis, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Wenqi Zhou , Kai Cao , Hao Zheng , Yunze Liu , Xinyi Zheng , Miao Liu , Per Ola Kristensson , Walterio Mayol-Cuevas , Fan Zhang , Weizhe Lin , Junxiao Shen

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

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

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,…

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

We investigate exocentric-to-egocentric cross-view translation, which aims to generate a first-person (egocentric) view of an actor based on a video recording that captures the actor from a third-person (exocentric) perspective. To this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Mi Luo , Zihui Xue , Alex Dimakis , Kristen Grauman

Intelligent assistance involves not only understanding but also action. Existing ego-centric video datasets contain rich annotations of the videos, but not of actions that an intelligent assistant could perform in the moment. To address…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-26 Steven Abreu , Tiffany D. Do , Karan Ahuja , Eric J. Gonzalez , Lee Payne , Daniel McDuff , Mar Gonzalez-Franco

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