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We introduce EgoSonics, a method to generate semantically meaningful and synchronized audio tracks conditioned on silent egocentric videos. Generating audio for silent egocentric videos could open new applications in virtual reality,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Aashish Rai , Srinath Sridhar

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

We introduce RealPlay, a neural network-based real-world game engine that enables interactive video generation from user control signals. Unlike prior works focused on game-style visuals, RealPlay aims to produce photorealistic, temporally…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Wenqiang Sun , Fangyun Wei , Jinjing Zhao , Xi Chen , Zilong Chen , Hongyang Zhang , Jun Zhang , Yan Lu

To serve as a scalable data source for embodied AI, world models should act as true simulators that infer interaction dynamics strictly from user actions, rather than mere conditional video generators relying on privileged future object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Dayou Li , Lulin Liu , Bangya Liu , Shijie Zhou , Jiu Feng , Ziqi Lu , Minghui Zheng , Chenyu You , Zhiwen Fan

In the emerging field of esports research, there is an increasing demand for quantitative results that can be used by players, coaches and analysts to make decisions and present meaningful commentary for spectators. We present…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Josef Spjut , Ben Boudaoud , Kamran Binaee , Zander Majercik , Morgan McGuire , Joohwan Kim

Recent advancements in predictive models have demonstrated exceptional capabilities in predicting the future state of objects and scenes. However, the lack of categorization based on inherent characteristics continues to hinder the progress…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-24 Yiran Qin , Zhelun Shi , Jiwen Yu , Xijun Wang , Enshen Zhou , Lijun Li , Zhenfei Yin , Xihui Liu , Lu Sheng , Jing Shao , Lei Bai , Wanli Ouyang , Ruimao Zhang

Perceiving the world from both egocentric (first-person) and exocentric (third-person) perspectives is fundamental to human cognition, enabling rich and complementary understanding of dynamic environments. In recent years, allowing the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Yuping He , Yifei Huang , Guo Chen , Lidong Lu , Baoqi Pei , Jilan Xu , Tong Lu , Yoichi Sato

Given a video captured from a first person perspective and the environment context of where the video is recorded, can we recognize what the person is doing and identify where the action occurs in the 3D space? We address this challenging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-16 Miao Liu , Lingni Ma , Kiran Somasundaram , Yin Li , Kristen Grauman , James M. Rehg , Chao Li

Video world models have shown immense promise for interactive simulation and entertainment, but current systems still struggle with two important aspects of interactivity: user control over the environment for reproducible, editable…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Ryan Po , David Junhao Zhang , Amir Hertz , Gordon Wetzstein , Neal Wadhwa , Nataniel Ruiz

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

World models have become a central paradigm for learning predictive simulators that support generation, planning, and decision-making. Yet, despite rapid progress in industry-scale interactive video generation, the broader research…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Siqiao Huang , Partha Kaushik , Michael Chen , Hengkai Pan , Kaiwen Geng , Omar Chehab , Fernando Moreno-Pino , Max Simchowitz

Current video generation models cannot simulate physical consequences of 3D actions like forces and robotic manipulations, as they lack structural understanding of how actions affect 3D scenes. We present RealWonder, the first real-time…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Wei Liu , Ziyu Chen , Zizhang Li , Yue Wang , Hong-Xing Yu , Jiajun Wu

To enable a safe and effective human-robot cooperation, it is crucial to develop models for the identification of human activities. Egocentric vision seems to be a viable solution to solve this problem, and therefore many works provide deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-13 Gabriele Goletto , Mirco Planamente , Barbara Caputo , Giuseppe Averta

Creating high-quality and interactive virtual environments, such as games and simulators, often involves complex and costly manual modeling processes. In this paper, we present Video2Game, a novel approach that automatically converts videos…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Hongchi Xia , Zhi-Hao Lin , Wei-Chiu Ma , Shenlong Wang

Different video understanding tasks are typically treated in isolation, and even with distinct types of curated data (e.g., classifying sports in one dataset, tracking animals in another). However, in wearable cameras, the immersive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-10 Zihui Xue , Yale Song , Kristen Grauman , Lorenzo Torresani

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

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

Egocentric videos offer fine-grained information for high-fidelity modeling of human behaviors. Hands and interacting objects are one crucial aspect of understanding a viewer's behaviors and intentions. We provide a labeled dataset…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-09 Lingzhi Zhang , Shenghao Zhou , Simon Stent , Jianbo Shi

There is a high demand for high-quality Non-Player Characters (NPCs) in video games. Hand-crafting their behavior is a labor intensive and error prone engineering process with limited controls exposed to the game designers. We propose to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Igor Borovikov , Jesse Harder , Michael Sadovsky , Ahmad Beirami

We introduce GameGen-X, the first diffusion transformer model specifically designed for both generating and interactively controlling open-world game videos. This model facilitates high-quality, open-domain generation by simulating an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-09 Haoxuan Che , Xuanhua He , Quande Liu , Cheng Jin , Hao Chen