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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…

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The ability to anticipate human-object interactions is highly desirable in an intelligent assistive system in order to guide users during daily life activities and understand their short and long-term goals. Creating systems with such…

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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

Long context egocentric video understanding has recently attracted significant research attention, with augmented reality (AR) highlighted as one of its most important application domains. Nevertheless, the task remains highly challenging…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Qiance Tang , Ziqi Wang , Jieyu Lin , Ziyun Li , Barbara De Salvo , Sai Qian Zhang

Video-Question-Answering (VideoQA) comprises the capturing of complex visual relation changes over time, remaining a challenge even for advanced Video Language Models (VLM), i.a., because of the need to represent the visual content to a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Sofian Chaybouti , Walid Bousselham , Moritz Wolter , Hilde Kuehne

Large Vision Language Models (VLMs) are now the de facto state-of-the-art for a number of tasks including visual question answering, recognising objects, and spatial referral. In this work, we propose the HOI-Ref task for egocentric images…

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Humans exhibit adaptive, context-sensitive responses to egocentric visual input. However, faithfully modeling such reactions from egocentric video remains challenging due to the dual requirements of strictly causal generation and precise 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Libo Zhang , Zekun Li , Tianyu Li , Zeyu Cao , Rui Xu , Xiaoxiao Long , Wenjia Wang , Jingbo Wang , Yuan Liu , Wenping Wang , Daquan Zhou , Taku Komura , Zhiyang Dou

Humans develop visual intelligence through perceiving and interacting with their environment - a self-supervised learning process grounded in egocentric experience. Inspired by this, we ask how can artificial systems learn stable object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Yuting Tan , Xilong Cheng , Yunxiao Qin , Zhengnan Li , Jingjing Zhang

Attention mechanisms have been widely applied in the Visual Question Answering (VQA) task, as they help to focus on the area-of-interest of both visual and textual information. To answer the questions correctly, the model needs to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-20 Tingting Qiao , Jianfeng Dong , Duanqing Xu

Video question answering (Video QA) presents a powerful testbed for human-like intelligent behaviors. The task demands new capabilities to integrate video processing, language understanding, binding abstract linguistic concepts to concrete…

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Visual grounding associates textual descriptions with objects in an image. Conventional methods target third-person image inputs and named object queries. In applications such as AI assistants, the perspective shifts -- inputs are…

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First-person video highlights a camera-wearer's activities in the context of their persistent environment. However, current video understanding approaches reason over visual features from short video clips that are detached from the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-13 Tushar Nagarajan , Santhosh Kumar Ramakrishnan , Ruta Desai , James Hillis , Kristen Grauman

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

This report presents our solution to the Ego4D Natural Language Queries (NLQ) Challenge at CVPR 2025. Egocentric video captures the scene from the wearer's perspective, where gaze serves as a key non-verbal communication cue that reflects…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Wei-Cheng Lin , Chih-Ming Lien , Chen Lo , Chia-Hung Yeh

The advent of always-on personal AI assistants, enabled by all-day wearable devices such as smart glasses, demands a new level of contextual understanding, one that goes beyond short, isolated events to encompass the continuous,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Aniket Rege , Arka Sadhu , Yuliang Li , Kejie Li , Ramya Korlakai Vinayak , Yuning Chai , Yong Jae Lee , Hyo Jin Kim

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…

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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)…

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Human identification remains to be one of the challenging tasks in computer vision community due to drastic changes in visual features across different viewpoints, lighting conditions, occlusion, etc. Most of the literature has been focused…

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Egocentric Video Question Answering (QA) requires models to handle long-horizon temporal reasoning, first-person perspectives, and specialized challenges like frequent camera movement. This paper systematically evaluates both proprietary…

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