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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

The rapid development of Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) has led to growing interest in egocentric video understanding, specifically the ability for MLLMs to recognize fine-grained hand-object interactions, track object state…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Yang Dai , Dian Jiao , Tianwei Lin , Wenqiao Zhang

Emerging embodied AI applications, such as wearable cameras and autonomous agents, have underscored the need for robust reasoning from first person video streams. We introduce EgoVLM, a vision-language model specifically designed to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Ashwin Vinod , Shrey Pandit , Aditya Vavre , Linshen Liu

Understanding dynamic 4D scenes from an egocentric perspective-modeling changes in 3D spatial structure over time-is crucial for human-machine interaction, autonomous navigation, and embodied intelligence. While existing egocentric datasets…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Junsheng Huang , Shengyu Hao , Bocheng Hu , Hongwei Wang , Gaoang Wang

Spatiotemporal video grounding aims to localize target entities in videos based on textual queries. While existing research has made significant progress in exocentric videos, the egocentric setting remains relatively underexplored, despite…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Shuo Liang , Yiwu Zhong , Zi-Yuan Hu , Yeyao Tao , Liwei Wang

Understanding 3D spatial relationships remains a major limitation of current Vision-Language Models (VLMs). Prior work has addressed this issue by creating spatial question-answering (QA) datasets based on single images or indoor videos.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Mohsen Gholami , Ahmad Rezaei , Zhou Weimin , Sitong Mao , Shunbo Zhou , Yong Zhang , Mohammad Akbari

The 1st Cross-Domain EgoCross Challenge at EgoVis, CVPR 2026 evaluates whether multimodal large language models can reason over egocentric videos across surgery, industry, extreme sports, and animal perspective. We achieved second place in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Zixu Li , Zhiwei Chen , Zhiheng Fu , Wenbo Wang , Yupeng Hu , Weili Guan , Liqiang Nie

While multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have made groundbreaking progress in embodied intelligence, they still face significant challenges in spatial reasoning for complex long-horizon tasks. To address this gap, we propose…

Understanding fine-grained temporal dynamics is crucial in egocentric videos, where continuous streams capture frequent, close-up interactions with objects. In this work, we bring to light that current egocentric video question-answering…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Chiara Plizzari , Alessio Tonioni , Yongqin Xian , Achin Kulshrestha , Federico Tombari

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

Our comprehension of video streams depicting human activities is naturally multifaceted: in just a few moments, we can grasp what is happening, identify the relevance and interactions of objects in the scene, and forecast what will happen…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-05 Simone Alberto Peirone , Francesca Pistilli , Antonio Alliegro , Tatiana Tommasi , Giuseppe Averta

In this technical report, we present our solution for the EgoPlan Challenge in ICML 2024. To address the real-world egocentric task planning problem, we introduce a novel planning framework which comprises three stages: long-term memory…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Letian Shi , Qi Lv , Xiang Deng , Liqiang Nie

Humans can perform complex tasks with long-term objectives by planning, reasoning, and forecasting outcomes of actions. For embodied agents to achieve similar capabilities, they must gain knowledge of the environment transferable to novel…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Shu Ishida

Despite rapid progress, embodied agents still struggle with long-horizon manipulation that requires maintaining spatial consistency, causal dependencies, and goal constraints. A key limitation of existing approaches is that task reasoning…

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

The spatial reasoning task aims to reason about the spatial relationships in 2D and 3D space, which is a fundamental capability for Visual Question Answering (VQA) and robotics. Although vision language models (VLMs) have developed rapidly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Xun Liang , Xin Guo , Zhongming Jin , Weihang Pan , Penghui Shang , Deng Cai , Binbin Lin , Jieping Ye

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

Different video understanding tasks are typically treated in isolation, and even with distinct types of curated data (e.g., classifying sports in one dataset, tracking animals in another). However, in wearable cameras, the immersive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-10 Zihui Xue , Yale Song , Kristen Grauman , Lorenzo Torresani

Future activity anticipation is a challenging problem in egocentric vision. As a standard future activity anticipation paradigm, recursive sequence prediction suffers from the accumulation of errors. To address this problem, we propose a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-24 Zhaobo Qi , Shuhui Wang , Chi Su , Li Su , Qingming Huang , Qi Tian

Visual commonsense reasoning (VCR) is a challenging multi-modal task, which requires high-level cognition and commonsense reasoning ability about the real world. In recent years, large-scale pre-training approaches have been developed and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-10 Cheng Yang , Rui Xu , Ye Guo , Peixiang Huang , Yiru Chen , Wenkui Ding , Zhongyuan Wang , Hong Zhou