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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

The rapid development of Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) has led to growing interest in egocentric video understanding, specifically the ability for MLLMs to recognize fine-grained hand-object interactions, track object state…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Yang Dai , Dian Jiao , Tianwei Lin , Wenqiao Zhang

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

An embodied AI assistant operating on egocentric video must integrate spatial cues across time - for instance, determining where an object A, glimpsed a few moments ago lies relative to an object B encountered later. We introduce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Sahithya Ravi , Gabriel Sarch , Vibhav Vineet , Andrew D. Wilson , Balasaravanan Thoravi Kumaravel

Natural interaction with virtual objects in AR/VR environments makes for a smooth user experience. Gestures are a natural extension from real world to augmented space to achieve these interactions. Finding discriminating spatio-temporal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-17 Tejo Chalasani , Jan Ondrej , Aljosa Smolic

We explore the task of Video Object Grounding (VOG), which grounds objects in videos referred to in natural language descriptions. Previous methods apply image grounding based algorithms to address VOG, fail to explore the object relation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-25 Arka Sadhu , Kan Chen , Ram Nevatia

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

Large foundation models have made significant advances in embodied intelligence, enabling synthesis and reasoning over egocentric input for household tasks. However, VLM-based auto-labeling is often noisy because the primary data sources…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Lulin Liu , Dayou Li , Yiqing Liang , Sicong Jiang , Hitesh Vijay , Hezhen Hu , Xuhai Xu , Zirui Liu , Srinivas Shakkottai , Manling Li , Zhiwen Fan

Grounded understanding of natural language in physical scenes can greatly benefit robots that follow human instructions. In object manipulation scenarios, existing end-to-end models are proficient at understanding semantic concepts, but…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-04-03 Qian Luo , Yunfei Li , Yi Wu

Enabling intelligent agents to comprehend and interact with 3D environments through natural language is crucial for advancing robotics and human-computer interaction. A fundamental task in this field is ego-centric 3D visual grounding,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-09 Henry Zheng , Hao Shi , Qihang Peng , Yong Xien Chng , Rui Huang , Yepeng Weng , Zhongchao Shi , Gao Huang

Understanding human--environment interactions from egocentric vision is essential for assistive robotics and embodied intelligent agents, yet existing multimodal large language models (MLLMs) still struggle with accurate interaction…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Yuejiao Su , Xinshen Zhang , Zhen Ye , Lei Yao , Lap-Pui Chau , Yi Wang

We introduce Goal-Conditioned Visual Navigation Instruction Generation (GoViG), a new task that aims to generate contextually coherent navigation instructions solely from egocentric visual observations of initial and goal states. Unlike…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Fengyi Wu , Yifei Dong , Yilong Dai , Guangyu Chen , Qifeng Wu , Huiting Huang , Hang Wang , Qi Dai , Alexander G. Hauptmann , Zhi-Qi Cheng

Egocentric hand-object motion generation is crucial for immersive AR/VR and robotic imitation but remains challenging due to unstable viewpoints, self-occlusions, perspective distortion, and noisy ego-motion. Existing methods rely on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Bohan Zhou , Yi Zhan , Zhongbin Zhang , Zongqing Lu

With the rapid development of artificial intelligence technologies and wearable devices, egocentric vision understanding has emerged as a new and challenging research direction, gradually attracting widespread attention from both academia…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Xiang Li , Heqian Qiu , Lanxiao Wang , Hanwen Zhang , Chenghao Qi , Linfeng Han , Huiyu Xiong , Hongliang Li

Affordance grounding aims to locate objects' "action possibilities" regions, which is an essential step toward embodied intelligence. Due to the diversity of interactive affordance, the uniqueness of different individuals leads to diverse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-26 Hongchen Luo , Wei Zhai , Jing Zhang , Yang Cao , Dacheng Tao

Visual grounding tasks aim to localize image regions based on natural language references. In this work, we explore whether generative VLMs predominantly trained on image-text data could be leveraged to scale up the text annotation of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Shijie Wang , Dahun Kim , Ali Taalimi , Chen Sun , Weicheng Kuo

Current LLM assistants are powerful at answering questions, but they have limited access to the behavioral context that reveals when and where a user is struggling. We present a gaze-grounded multimodal LLM assistant that uses egocentric…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Valdemar Danry , Javier Hernandez , Andrew Wilson , Pattie Maes , Judith Amores

As the demand for analyzing egocentric videos grows, egocentric visual attention prediction, anticipating where a camera wearer will attend, has garnered increasing attention. However, it remains challenging due to the inherent complexity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Sungjune Park , Hongda Mao , Qingshuang Chen , Yong Man Ro , Yelin Kim

AI personal assistants, deployed through robots or wearables, require embodied understanding to collaborate effectively with humans. However, current Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) primarily focus on third-person (exocentric)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Haoyu Zhang , Qiaohui Chu , Meng Liu , Haoxiang Shi , Yaowei Wang , Liqiang Nie

A core capability towards general embodied intelligence lies in localizing task-relevant objects from an egocentric perspective, formulated as Spatio-Temporal Video Grounding (STVG). Despite recent progress, existing STVG studies remain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Qi'ao Xu , Tianwen Qian , Yuqian Fu , Kailing Li , Yang Jiao , Jiacheng Zhang , Xiaoling Wang , Liang He