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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

In egocentric scenarios, anticipating both the next action and its visual outcome is essential for understanding human-object interactions and for enabling robotic planning. However, existing paradigms fall short of jointly modeling these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Binjie Zhang , Mike Zheng Shou

Egocentric human videos provide a scalable source of manipulation demonstrations; however, deploying them on robots requires active viewpoint control to maintain task-critical visibility, which human viewpoint imitation often fails to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Daesol Cho , Youngseok Jang , Danfei Xu , Sehoon Ha

While Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have advanced highlevel reasoning in autonomous driving, their ability to ground this reasoning in the underlying physics of ego-motion remains poorly understood. We introduce EgoDyn-Bench, a diagnostic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Finn Rasmus Schäfer , Yuan Gao , Dingrui Wang , Thomas Stauner , Stephan Günnemann , Mattia Piccinini , Sebastian Schmidt , Johannes Betz

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

Understanding egocentric videos plays a vital role for embodied intelligence. Recent multi-modal large language models (MLLMs) can accept both visual and audio inputs. However, due to the challenge of obtaining text labels with coherent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Ashish Seth , Xinhao Mei , Changsheng Zhao , Varun Nagaraja , Ernie Chang , Gregory P. Meyer , Gael Le Lan , Yunyang Xiong , Vikas Chandra , Yangyang Shi , Dinesh Manocha , Zhipeng Cai

Being able to map the activities of others into one's own point of view is one fundamental human skill even from a very early age. Taking a step toward understanding this human ability, we introduce EgoExoLearn, a large-scale dataset that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Yifei Huang , Guo Chen , Jilan Xu , Mingfang Zhang , Lijin Yang , Baoqi Pei , Hongjie Zhang , Lu Dong , Yali Wang , Limin Wang , Yu Qiao

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

Robot learning increasingly depends on large and diverse data, yet robot data collection remains expensive and difficult to scale. Egocentric human data offer a promising alternative by capturing rich manipulation behavior across everyday…

We introduce an approach for pre-training egocentric video models using large-scale third-person video datasets. Learning from purely egocentric data is limited by low dataset scale and diversity, while using purely exocentric…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-19 Yanghao Li , Tushar Nagarajan , Bo Xiong , Kristen Grauman

The remarkable progress of Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) has attracted increasing attention to extend them to physical entities like legged robot. This typically requires MLLMs to not only grasp multimodal understanding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Gen Luo , Ganlin Yang , Ziyang Gong , Guanzhou Chen , Haonan Duan , Erfei Cui , Ronglei Tong , Zhi Hou , Tianyi Zhang , Zhe Chen , Shenglong Ye , Lewei Lu , Jingbo Wang , Wenhai Wang , Jifeng Dai , Yu Qiao , Rongrong Ji , Xizhou Zhu

Recent advances in vision-language models (VLMs) have led to improved performance on tasks such as visual question answering and image captioning. Consequently, these models are now well-positioned to reason about the physical world,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Jensen Gao , Bidipta Sarkar , Fei Xia , Ted Xiao , Jiajun Wu , Brian Ichter , Anirudha Majumdar , Dorsa Sadigh

This paper addresses the limitations of current humanoid robot control frameworks, which primarily rely on reactive mechanisms and lack autonomous interaction capabilities due to data scarcity. We propose Humanoid-VLA, a novel framework…

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

Large-scale pre-training using egocentric human videos has proven effective for robot learning. However, the models pre-trained on such data can be suboptimal for robot learning due to the significant visual gap between human hands and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Guangrun Li , Yaoxu Lyu , Zhuoyang Liu , Chengkai Hou , Jieyu Zhang , Shanghang Zhang

Large multimodal models exhibit remarkable intelligence, yet their embodied cognitive abilities during motion in open-ended urban 3D space remain to be explored. We introduce a benchmark to evaluate whether video-large language models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Baining Zhao , Jianjie Fang , Zichao Dai , Ziyou Wang , Jirong Zha , Weichen Zhang , Chen Gao , Yue Wang , Jinqiang Cui , Xinlei Chen , Yong Li

Analyzing instructional interactions between an instructor and a learner who are co-present in the same physical space is a critical problem for educational support and skill transfer. Yet such face-to-face instructional scenes have not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Yuki Sakai , Ryosuke Furuta , Juichun Yen , Yoichi Sato

Building a generalist robot that can perceive, reason, and act across diverse tasks remains an open challenge, especially for dexterous manipulation. A major bottleneck lies in the scarcity of large-scale, action-annotated data for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Yankai Fu , Ning Chen , Junkai Zhao , Shaozhe Shan , Guocai Yao , Pengwei Wang , Zhongyuan Wang , Shanghang Zhang

Vision-language models (VLMs) have recently shown promising results in traditional downstream tasks. Evaluation studies have emerged to assess their abilities, with the majority focusing on the third-person perspective, and only a few…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-29 Sijie Cheng , Zhicheng Guo , Jingwen Wu , Kechen Fang , Peng Li , Huaping Liu , Yang Liu

Human egocentric video captures rich manipulation demonstrations without any robot hardware, yet transferring these skills to robots remains challenging due to the embodiment gap between human and robot in both visual appearance and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Zhi Wang , Botao He , Kelin Yu , Seungjae Lee , Ruohan Gao , Furong Huang , Yiannis Aloimonos