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We present a lightweight and affordable motion capture method based on two smartwatches and a head-mounted camera. In contrast to the existing approaches that use six or more expert-level IMU devices, our approach is much more…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Jiye Lee , Hanbyul Joo

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

In recent years, the thriving development of research related to egocentric videos has provided a unique perspective for the study of conversational interactions, where both visual and audio signals play a crucial role. While most prior…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-04 Wenqi Jia , Miao Liu , Hao Jiang , Ishwarya Ananthabhotla , James M. Rehg , Vamsi Krishna Ithapu , Ruohan Gao

In a wearable camera video, we see what the camera wearer sees. While this makes it easy to know roughly what he chose to look at, it does not immediately reveal when he was engaged with the environment. Specifically, at what moments did…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-04-05 Yu-Chuan Su , Kristen Grauman

Human bodily movements convey critical insights into action intentions and cognitive processes, yet existing multimodal systems primarily focused on understanding human motion via language, vision, and audio, which struggle to capture the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Ziwei Shan , Yaoyu He , Chengfeng Zhao , Jiashen Du , Jingyan Zhang , Qixuan Zhang , Jingyi Yu , Lan Xu

We introduce EgoLife, a project to develop an egocentric life assistant that accompanies and enhances personal efficiency through AI-powered wearable glasses. To lay the foundation for this assistant, we conducted a comprehensive data…

Recent advances in omni-modal large language models have enabled remarkable progress in joint vision-audio understanding. However, prevailing architectures rely on modality-specific encoders with a \emph{video-coarse, audio-dense} design --…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Detao Bai , Shimin Yao , Weixuan Chen , Chengen Lai , Yuanming Li , Zhiheng Ma , Xihan Wei

Forecasting hand motion and pose from an egocentric perspective is essential for understanding human intention. However, existing methods focus solely on predicting positions without considering articulation, and only when the hands are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-14 Masashi Hatano , Zhifan Zhu , Hideo Saito , Dima Damen

Multimodal video understanding is crucial for analyzing egocentric videos, where integrating multiple sensory signals significantly enhances action recognition and moment localization. However, practical applications often grapple with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-18 Merey Ramazanova , Alejandro Pardo , Humam Alwassel , Bernard Ghanem

We introduce a novel task of reconstructing a time series of second-person 3D human body meshes from monocular egocentric videos. The unique viewpoint and rapid embodied camera motion of egocentric videos raise additional technical barriers…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Miao Liu , Dexin Yang , Yan Zhang , Zhaopeng Cui , James M. Rehg , Siyu Tang

Wearable cameras allow to collect images and videos of humans interacting with the world. While human-object interactions have been thoroughly investigated in third person vision, the problem has been understudied in egocentric settings and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Francesco Ragusa , Antonino Furnari , Salvatore Livatino , Giovanni Maria Farinella

Analyzing instructional interactions between an instructor and a learner who are co-present in the same physical space is a critical problem for educational support and skill transfer. Yet such face-to-face instructional scenes have not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Yuki Sakai , Ryosuke Furuta , Juichun Yen , Yoichi Sato

Tracking body and hand motions in the 3D space is essential for social and self-presence in augmented and virtual environments. Unlike the popular 3D pose estimation setting, the problem is often formulated as inside-out tracking based on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Mathias Parger , Chengcheng Tang , Yuanlu Xu , Christopher Twigg , Lingling Tao , Yijing Li , Robert Wang , Markus Steinberger

Understanding human activity is a crucial yet intricate task in egocentric vision, a field that focuses on capturing visual perspectives from the camera wearer's viewpoint. Traditional methods heavily rely on representation learning that is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Sanghwan Kim , Daoji Huang , Yongqin Xian , Otmar Hilliges , Luc Van Gool , Xi Wang

This paper presents a framework for recognition of human activity from egocentric video and eye tracking data obtained from a head-mounted eye tracker. Three channels of information such as eye movement, ego-motion, and visual features are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-21 Anjith George , Aurobinda Routray

Immersive VR telepresence ideally means being able to interact and communicate with digital avatars that are indistinguishable from and precisely reflect the behaviour of their real counterparts. The core technical challenge is two fold:…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Jianchun Chen , Jian Wang , Yinda Zhang , Rohit Pandey , Thabo Beeler , Marc Habermann , Christian Theobalt

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…

This paper presents LLaMo (Large Language and Human Motion Assistant), a multimodal framework for human motion instruction tuning. In contrast to conventional instruction-tuning approaches that convert non-linguistic inputs, such as video…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-03-27 Lei Li , Sen Jia , Jianhao Wang , Zhongyu Jiang , Feng Zhou , Ju Dai , Tianfang Zhang , Zongkai Wu , Jenq-Neng Hwang

We propose a novel hands-free control framework for the Boston Dynamics Spot robot using the Microsoft HoloLens 2 mixed-reality headset. Enabling accessible robot control is critical for allowing individuals with physical disabilities to…

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