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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

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…

We present EgoExo-Fitness, a new full-body action understanding dataset, featuring fitness sequence videos recorded from synchronized egocentric and fixed exocentric (third-person) cameras. Compared with existing full-body action…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Yuan-Ming Li , Wei-Jin Huang , An-Lan Wang , Ling-An Zeng , Jing-Ke Meng , Wei-Shi Zheng

Can Video-LLMs achieve consistent temporal understanding when videos capture the same event from different viewpoints? To study this, we introduce EgoExo-Con (Consistency), a benchmark of comprehensively synchronized egocentric and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Minjoon Jung , Junbin Xiao , Junghyun Kim , Byoung-Tak Zhang , Angela Yao

Egocentric video-language understanding demands both high efficiency and accurate spatial-temporal modeling. Existing approaches face three key challenges: 1) Excessive pre-training cost arising from multi-stage pre-training pipelines, 2)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Xiaoqi Wang , Yi Wang , Lap-Pui Chau

Spatiotemporal video grounding aims to localize target entities in videos based on textual queries. While existing research has made significant progress in exocentric videos, the egocentric setting remains relatively underexplored, despite…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Shuo Liang , Yiwu Zhong , Zi-Yuan Hu , Yeyao Tao , Liwei Wang

Egocentric video reasoning centers on an unobservable agent behind the camera who dynamically shapes the environment, requiring inference of hidden intentions and recognition of fine-grained interactions. This core challenge limits current…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Baoqi Pei , Yifei Huang , Jilan Xu , Yuping He , Guo Chen , Fei Wu , Yu Qiao , Jiangmiao Pang

Imitation learning from human demonstrations offers a promising approach for robot skill acquisition, but egocentric human data introduces fundamental challenges due to the embodiment gap. During manipulation, humans actively coordinate…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Justin Yu , Yide Shentu , Di Wu , Pieter Abbeel , Ken Goldberg , Philipp Wu

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

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 explore leveraging large multi-modal models (LMMs) and text2image models to build a more general embodied agent. LMMs excel in planning long-horizon tasks over symbolic abstractions but struggle with grounding in the physical world,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Zhirui Fang , Ming Yang , Weishuai Zeng , Boyu Li , Junpeng Yue , Ziluo Ding , Xiu Li , Zongqing Lu

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

Estimating 3D human motion from an egocentric video sequence plays a critical role in human behavior understanding and has various applications in VR/AR. However, naively learning a mapping between egocentric videos and human motions is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Jiaman Li , C. Karen Liu , Jiajun Wu

Establishing object-level correspondence between egocentric and exocentric views is essential for intelligent assistants to deliver precise and intuitive visual guidance. However, this task faces numerous challenges, including extreme…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Yijun Hu , Bing Fan , Xin Gu , Haiqing Ren , Dongfang Liu , Heng Fan , Libo Zhang

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

Egocentric vision is essential for both human and machine visual understanding, particularly in capturing the detailed hand-object interactions needed for manipulation tasks. Translating third-person views into first-person views…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Junho Park , Andrew Sangwoo Ye , Taein Kwon

Video databases from the internet are a valuable source of text-audio retrieval datasets. However, given that sound and vision streams represent different "views" of the data, treating visual descriptions as audio descriptions is far from…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-01 Andreea-Maria Oncescu , João F. Henriques , Andrew Zisserman , Samuel Albanie , A. Sophia Koepke

Understanding human behavior from complementary egocentric (ego) and exocentric (exo) points of view enables the development of systems that can support workers in industrial environments and enhance their safety. However, progress in this…

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

Egocentric human videos provide scalable demonstrations for imitation learning, but existing corpora often lack either fine-grained, temporally localized action descriptions or dexterous hand annotations. We introduce OpenEgo, a multimodal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Ahad Jawaid , Yu Xiang