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Real robot data collection for imitation learning has led to significant advancements in robotic manipulation. However, the requirement for robot hardware in the process fundamentally constrains the scale of the data. In this paper, we…

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

Research on egocentric tasks in computer vision has mostly focused on head-mounted cameras, such as fisheye cameras or embedded cameras inside immersive headsets. We argue that the increasing miniaturization of optical sensors will lead to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-26 Dominik Hollidt , Paul Streli , Jiaxi Jiang , Yasaman Haghighi , Changlin Qian , Xintong Liu , Christian Holz

In this paper, we address the challenge of understanding human activities from an egocentric perspective. Traditional activity recognition techniques face unique challenges in egocentric videos due to the highly dynamic nature of the head…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Zachary Chavis , Stephen J. Guy , Hyun Soo Park

Imitation learning from human hand motion data presents a promising avenue for imbuing robots with human-like dexterity in real-world manipulation tasks. Despite this potential, substantial challenges persist, particularly with the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Chen Wang , Haochen Shi , Weizhuo Wang , Ruohan Zhang , Li Fei-Fei , C. Karen Liu

Touch contact and pressure are essential for understanding how humans interact with and manipulate objects, insights which can significantly benefit applications in mixed reality and robotics. However, estimating these interactions from an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-05 Yiming Zhao , Taein Kwon , Paul Streli , Marc Pollefeys , Christian Holz

We present DexCanvas, a large-scale hybrid real-synthetic human manipulation dataset containing 7,000 hours of dexterous hand-object interactions seeded from 70 hours of real human demonstrations, organized across 21 fundamental…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Xinyue Xu , Jieqiang Sun , Jing , Dai , Siyuan Chen , Lanjie Ma , Ke Sun , Bin Zhao , Jianbo Yuan , Sheng Yi , Haohua Zhu , Yiwen Lu

Dexterous manipulation remains challenging due to the cost of collecting real-robot teleoperation data, the heterogeneity of hand embodiments, and the high dimensionality of control. We present UniDex, a robot foundation suite that couples…

Forecasting future 3D hand pose sequences from egocentric video is essential for understanding human intention and enabling embodied applications such as AR/VR assistance and human-robot interaction. However, this task remains a highly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Jaeyoung Choi , Hyeondong Kim , Yujin Kim , Daehee Park

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

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

We introduce IndEgo, a multimodal egocentric and exocentric dataset addressing common industrial tasks, including assembly/disassembly, logistics and organisation, inspection and repair, woodworking, and others. The dataset contains 3,460…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Vivek Chavan , Yasmina Imgrund , Tung Dao , Sanwantri Bai , Bosong Wang , Ze Lu , Oliver Heimann , Jörg Krüger

Grounding textual expressions on scene objects from first-person views is a truly demanding capability in developing agents that are aware of their surroundings and behave following intuitive text instructions. Such capability is of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Shuhei Kurita , Naoki Katsura , Eri Onami

We present EgoHumans, a new multi-view multi-human video benchmark to advance the state-of-the-art of egocentric human 3D pose estimation and tracking. Existing egocentric benchmarks either capture single subject or indoor-only scenarios,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Rawal Khirodkar , Aayush Bansal , Lingni Ma , Richard Newcombe , Minh Vo , Kris Kitani

This paper introduces EgoMAGIC (Medical Assistance, Guidance, Instruction, and Correction), an egocentric medical activity dataset collected as part of DARPA's Perceptually-enabled Task Guidance (PTG) program. This dataset comprises 3,355…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Brian VanVoorst , Nicholas Walczak , Christopher Gilleo , Charles Meissner , Fabio Felix , Iran Roman , Bea Steers , Claudio Silva , Yuhan Shen , Zijia Lu , Shih-Po Lee , Ehsan Elhamifar

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

We propose a self-supervised algorithm to learn representations from egocentric video data. Recently, significant efforts have been made to capture humans interacting with their own environments as they go about their daily activities. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-28 Himangi Mittal , Pedro Morgado , Unnat Jain , Abhinav Gupta

We present DexMan, an automated framework that converts human visual demonstrations into bimanual dexterous manipulation skills for humanoid robots in simulation. Operating directly on third-person videos of humans manipulating rigid…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Jhen Hsieh , Kuan-Hsun Tu , Kuo-Han Hung , Tsung-Wei Ke

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…

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…