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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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-21 Pengzhan Sun , Junbin Xiao , Tze Ho Elden Tse , Yicong Li , Arjun Akula , Angela Yao

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

Environment understanding in egocentric videos is an important step for applications like robotics, augmented reality and assistive technologies. These videos are characterized by dynamic interactions and a strong dependence on the wearer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Lorenzo Mur-Labadia , Josechu Guerrero , Ruben Martinez-Cantin

Learning an agent model that behaves like humans-capable of jointly perceiving the environment, predicting the future, and taking actions from a first-person perspective-is a fundamental challenge in computer vision. Existing methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Lu Chen , Yizhou Wang , Shixiang Tang , Qianhong Ma , Tong He , Wanli Ouyang , Xiaowei Zhou , Hujun Bao , Sida Peng

The proliferation of commercial egocentric devices offers a unique lens into human behavior, yet reconstructing full-body 3D motion remains difficult due to frequent self-occlusion and the 'out-of-sight' nature of the wearer's limbs. While…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Kyungwon Cho , Hanbyul Joo

Egocentric manipulation videos are highly challenging due to severe occlusions during interactions and frequent object entries and exits from the camera view as the person moves. Current methods typically focus on recovering either hand or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Yufei Ye , Jiaman Li , Ryan Rong , C. Karen Liu

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

Modern vision-language models achieve strong performance in static perception, but remain limited in the complex spatiotemporal reasoning required for embodied, egocentric tasks. A major source of failure is their reliance on temporal…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Xiaoda Yang , Yuxiang Liu , Shenzhou Gao , Can Wang , Jingyang Xue , Lixin Yang , Yao Mu , Tao Jin , Shuicheng Yan , Zhimeng Zhang , Zhou Zhao

Driven by the increasing demand for applications in augmented and virtual reality, egocentric action recognition has emerged as a prominent research area. It is typically divided into two subtasks: recognizing the performed behavior (i.e.,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Huaihai Lyu , Chaofan Chen , Yuheng Ji , Changsheng Xu

Recent technological advances have made lightweight, head mounted cameras both practical and affordable and products like Google Glass show first approaches to introduce the idea of egocentric (first-person) video to the mainstream.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-01-14 Sven Bambach

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

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

What if accessing the web did not require a screen, a stable desk, or even free hands? For people navigating crowded cities, living with low vision, or experiencing cognitive overload, smart glasses coupled with AI agents could turn the web…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Sicheng Yang , Yukai Huang , Weitong Cai , Shitong Sun , Fengyi Fang , You He , Yiqiao Xie , Jiankang Deng , Hang Zhang , Jifei Song , Zhensong Zhang

Egocentric, or first-person vision which became popular in recent years with an emerge in wearable technology, is different than exocentric (third-person) vision in some distinguishable ways, one of which being that the camera wearer is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-10-11 Jessica Finocchiaro , Aisha Urooj Khan , Ali Borji

We present EMBED (Egocentric Models Built with Exocentric Data), a method designed to transform exocentric video-language data for egocentric video representation learning. Large-scale exocentric data covers diverse activities with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-08 Zi-Yi Dou , Xitong Yang , Tushar Nagarajan , Huiyu Wang , Jing Huang , Nanyun Peng , Kris Kitani , Fu-Jen Chu

Egocentric video is increasingly used as a data source for robot learning, activity understanding, and embodied AI research, but collecting it at scale remains fragmented in practice: each candidate host device, such as an Android phone,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Liuchuan Yu , Erdem Murat , Beichen Wang , Yan Zeng , Tingting Luo , Huizhen Zhou , Shanghao Li , Huining Feng , Zhigen Zhao , Ning Yang , Ke Jing , Yunhao Liu , Ruoya Sheng

Egomotion videos are first-person recordings where the view changes continuously due to the agent's movement. As they serve as the primary visual input for embodied AI agents, making egomotion video reasoning more efficient is therefore…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Jiaao Li , Kaiyuan Li , Chen Gao , Yong Li , Xinlei Chen

Always-on egocentric cameras are increasingly used as demonstrations for embodied robotics, imitation learning, and assistive AR, but the resulting video streams are dominated by redundant and low-quality frames. Under the storage and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Ajan Subramanian , Sumukh Bettadapura , Rohan Sathish

We introduce EgoToM, a new video question-answering benchmark that extends Theory-of-Mind (ToM) evaluation to egocentric domains. Using a causal ToM model, we generate multi-choice video QA instances for the Ego4D dataset to benchmark the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-31 Yuxuan Li , Vijay Veerabadran , Michael L. Iuzzolino , Brett D. Roads , Asli Celikyilmaz , Karl Ridgeway

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