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Visual object tracking is a key component to many egocentric vision problems. However, the full spectrum of challenges of egocentric tracking faced by an embodied AI is underrepresented in many existing datasets; these tend to focus on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Hao Tang , Kevin Liang , Matt Feiszli , Weiyao Wang

We introduce EgoSchema, a very long-form video question-answering dataset, and benchmark to evaluate long video understanding capabilities of modern vision and language systems. Derived from Ego4D, EgoSchema consists of over 5000 human…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Karttikeya Mangalam , Raiymbek Akshulakov , Jitendra Malik

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

Egocentric action anticipation consists in predicting a future action the camera wearer will perform from egocentric video. While the task has recently attracted the attention of the research community, current approaches assume that the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-10 Ivan Rodin , Antonino Furnari , Dimitrios Mavroeidis , Giovanni Maria Farinella

Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) demonstrate their impressive reasoning capabilities. However, the reasoning confined to internal parametric space limits LLMs' access to real-time information and understanding of the physical…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Junnan Liu , Linhao Luo , Thuy-Trang Vu , Gholamreza Haffari

Next-generation AI companions must go beyond general video understanding to resolve spatial and temporal references in dynamic, real-world environments. Existing Video Large Language Models (Video LLMs), while capable of coarse-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Honglu Zhou , Xiangyu Peng , Shrikant Kendre , Michael S. Ryoo , Silvio Savarese , Caiming Xiong , Juan Carlos Niebles

While language reasoning models excel in many tasks, visual reasoning remains challenging for current large multimodal models (LMMs). As a result, most LMMs default to verbalizing perceptual content into text, a strong limitation for tasks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-27 André G. Viveiros , Nuno Gonçalves , Matthias Lindemann , André Martins

Understanding human tasks through video observations is an essential capability of intelligent agents. The challenges of such capability lie in the difficulty of generating a detailed understanding of situated actions, their effects on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Baoxiong Jia , Ting Lei , Song-Chun Zhu , Siyuan Huang

Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown impressive performance on complex tasks through Chain-of-Thought (CoT) reasoning. However, conventional CoT relies on explicitly verbalized intermediate steps, which constrains its broader…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Xinghao Chen , Anhao Zhao , Heming Xia , Xuan Lu , Hanlin Wang , Yanjun Chen , Wei Zhang , Jian Wang , Wenjie Li , Xiaoyu Shen

Video understanding tasks take many forms, from action detection to visual query localization and spatio-temporal grounding of sentences. These tasks differ in the type of inputs (only video, or video-query pair where query is an image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Raghav Goyal , Effrosyni Mavroudi , Xitong Yang , Sainbayar Sukhbaatar , Leonid Sigal , Matt Feiszli , Lorenzo Torresani , Du Tran

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have shown great success as foundational models for downstream vision and natural language applications in a variety of domains. However, these models are limited to reasoning over objects and actions currently…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Zachary Chavis , Hyun Soo Park , Stephen J. Guy

We present SpatialMem, a memory-centric system for long-horizon, language-grounded retrieval and QA from egocentric video, where metric 3D serves as an interpretable indexing scaffold rather than an explicit mapping objective. Starting from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Xinyi Zheng , Yunze Liu , Chi-Hao Wu , Fan Zhang , Hao Zheng , Wenqi Zhou , Walterio W. Mayol-Cuevas , Junxiao Shen

Although reinforcement learning (RL) has significantly advanced reasoning capabilities in large multimodal language models (MLLMs), its efficacy remains limited for lightweight models essential for edge deployments. To address this issue,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Jingze Wu , Quan Zhang , Hongfei Suo , Zeqiang Cai , Hongbo Chen

What if a video generation model could not only imagine a plausible future, but the correct one, accurately reflecting how the world changes with each action? We address this question by presenting the Egocentric World Model (EgoWM), a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Anurag Bagchi , Zhipeng Bao , Homanga Bharadhwaj , Yu-Xiong Wang , Pavel Tokmakov , Martial Hebert

Large Language Models (LLMs) demonstrate remarkable proficiency in comprehending and handling text-based tasks. Many efforts are being made to transfer these attributes to video modality, which are termed Video-LLMs. However, existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Long Qian , Juncheng Li , Yu Wu , Yaobo Ye , Hao Fei , Tat-Seng Chua , Yueting Zhuang , Siliang Tang

In this paper, we study a problem of egocentric scene understanding, i.e., predicting depths and surface normals from an egocentric image. Egocentric scene understanding poses unprecedented challenges: (1) due to large head movements, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-15 Tien Do , Khiem Vuong , Hyun Soo Park

Predicting when to initiate speech in real-world environments remains a fundamental challenge for conversational agents. We introduce EgoSpeak, a novel framework for real-time speech initiation prediction in egocentric streaming video. By…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-24 Junhyeok Kim , Min Soo Kim , Jiwan Chung , Jungbin Cho , Jisoo Kim , Sungwoong Kim , Gyeongbo Sim , Youngjae Yu

The advent of Multimodal Large Language Models, leveraging the power of Large Language Models, has recently demonstrated superior multimodal understanding and reasoning abilities, heralding a new era for artificial general intelligence.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-04-14 Lu Qiu , Yi Chen , Yuying Ge , Yixiao Ge , Ying Shan , Xihui Liu

Visual Query Localization on long-form egocentric videos requires spatio-temporal search and localization of visually specified objects and is vital to build episodic memory systems. Prior work develops complex multi-stage pipelines that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Hanwen Jiang , Santhosh Kumar Ramakrishnan , Kristen Grauman

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