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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

Existing Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) remain primarily reactive, failing to continuously perceive environments or proactively assist users. While emerging benchmarks address proactivity, they are largely confined to alert…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Dongchuan Ran , Linyu Ou , Xueheng Li , Wenwen Tong , Chenxu Guo , Hewei Guo , Kaibing Wang , Lewei Lu

Egocentric AI agents, such as smart glasses, rely on pointing gestures to resolve referential ambiguities in natural language commands. However, despite advancements in Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs), current systems often fail to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Chentao Li , Zirui Gao , Mingze Gao , Yinglian Ren , Jianjiang Feng , Jie Zhou

Humans constantly reason about 3D proximity, the relations between their body and surrounding objects, to guide perception and action in daily life. Whether multimodal large language models (MLLMs) can perform such embodied 3D reasoning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Jinzhao Li , Yinuo Chen , Dongxu Piao , Panwang Pan , Yifan Yu , Dong Wang , Honglei Yan , Liang Yue , Shaofei Wang , Yixin Chen , Siyuan Huang , Miao Liu

Next-generation visual assistants, such as smart glasses, embodied agents, and always-on life-logging systems, must reason over an entire day or more of continuous visual experience. In ultra-long video settings, relevant information is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Ziyang Wang , Yue Zhang , Shoubin Yu , Ce Zhang , Zengqi Zhao , Jaehong Yoon , Hyunji Lee , Gedas Bertasius , Mohit Bansal

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

Dynamic spatial reasoning from monocular video is essential for bridging visual intelligence and the physical world, yet remains challenging for vision-language models (VLMs). Prior approaches either verbalize spatial-temporal reasoning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Zhangquan Chen , Manyuan Zhang , Xinlei Yu , Xiang An , Bo Li , Xin Xie , ZiDong Wang , Mingze Sun , Shuang Chen , Hongyu Li , Xiaobin Hu , Ruqi Huang

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) struggle with complex video QA benchmarks like HD-EPIC VQA due to ambiguous queries/options, poor long-range temporal reasoning, and non-standardized outputs. We propose a framework integrating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Sicheng Yang , Yukai Huang , Shitong Sun , Weitong Cai , Jiankang Deng , Jifei Song , Zhensong Zhang

Transferring and integrating knowledge across first-person (egocentric) and third-person (exocentric) viewpoints is intrinsic to human intelligence, enabling humans to learn from others and convey insights from their own experiences.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Yuping He , Yifei Huang , Guo Chen , Baoqi Pei , Jilan Xu , Tong Lu , Jiangmiao Pang

Understanding multimodal signals in egocentric vision, such as RGB video, depth, camera poses, and gaze, is essential for applications in augmented reality, robotics, and human-computer interaction, enabling systems to better interpret the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Gen Li , Yutong Chen , Yiqian Wu , Kaifeng Zhao , Marc Pollefeys , Siyu Tang

This research aims to comprehensively explore building a multimodal foundation model for egocentric video understanding. To achieve this goal, we work on three fronts. First, as there is a lack of QA data for egocentric video understanding,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Hanrong Ye , Haotian Zhang , Erik Daxberger , Lin Chen , Zongyu Lin , Yanghao Li , Bowen Zhang , Haoxuan You , Dan Xu , Zhe Gan , Jiasen Lu , Yinfei Yang

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have achieved remarkable progress in vision-language tasks, but they continue to struggle with spatial understanding. Existing spatial MLLMs often rely on explicit 3D inputs or architecture-specific…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Hunar Batra , Haoqin Tu , Hardy Chen , Yuanze Lin , Cihang Xie , Ronald Clark

Recent advances in image reasoning methods, particularly "Thinking with Images", have demonstrated remarkable success in Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs); however, this dynamic reasoning paradigm has not yet been extended to video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Shijian Wang , Jiarui Jin , Xingjian Wang , Linxin Song , Runhao Fu , Hecheng Wang , Zongyuan Ge , Yuan Lu , Xuelian Cheng

Long-form video understanding remains a fundamental challenge for current Video Large Language Models. Most existing models rely on static reasoning over uniformly sampled frames, which weakens temporal localization and leads to substantial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Chenglin Li , Qianglong Chen , Feng Han , Yikun Wang , Xingxi Yin , Yan Gong , Ruilin Li , Yin Zhang , Jiaqi Wang

Video reasoning models are a core component of egocentric and embodied agents. However, standard benchmarks for assessing models provide only evaluation of the output (e.g. the answer to a question), without evaluation of intermediate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Arsha Nagrani , Jasper Uijilings , Shyamal Buch , Tobias Weyand , Sudheendra Vijayanarasimhan , Bo Hu , Ramin Mehran , David A Ross , Cordelia Schmid

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Alkesh Patel , Vibhav Chitalia , Yinfei Yang

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) are increasingly considered as a foundation for embodied agents, yet it remains unclear whether they can reliably reason about the long-term physical consequences of actions from an egocentric…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Chengjun Yu , Xuhan Zhu , Chaoqun Du , Pengfei Yu , Wei Zhai , Yang Cao , Zheng-Jun Zha

While video large language models (Video-LLMs) excel in understanding slow-paced, real-world egocentric videos, their capabilities in high-velocity, information-dense virtual environments remain under-explored. Existing benchmarks focus on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Jianzhe Ma , Zhonghao Cao , Shangkui Chen , Yichen Xu , Wenxuan Wang , Qin Jin

Egocentric memory is widely used in embodied intelligence, but it may be insufficient for comprehensive spatial-temporal reasoning. Inspired by human recall from both field and observer perspectives, we introduce EgoExoMem, the first…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Ruiping Liu , Junwei Zheng , Yufan Chen , Di Wen , Shaofang Quan , Chengzhi Wu , Jiaming Zhang , Kailun Yang , Kunyu Peng , Rainer Stiefelhagen

Reinforcement learning (RL) has recently achieved remarkable success in eliciting visual reasoning within Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs). However, existing approaches typically train separate models for different tasks and treat…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Kaituo Feng , Manyuan Zhang , Hongyu Li , Kaixuan Fan , Shuang Chen , Yilei Jiang , Dian Zheng , Peiwen Sun , Yiyuan Zhang , Haoze Sun , Yan Feng , Peng Pei , Xunliang Cai , Xiangyu Yue