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Recent advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs) have spurred numerous attempts to apply these technologies to embodied tasks, particularly focusing on high-level task planning and task decomposition. To further explore this area, we…

Generative world models have shown promise for simulating dynamic environments, yet egocentric video remains challenging due to rapid viewpoint changes, frequent hand-object interactions, and goal-directed procedures whose evolution depends…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Yifan Shen , Jiateng Liu , Xinzhuo Li , Yuanzhe Liu , Bingxuan Li , Houze Yang , Wenqi Jia , Yijiang Li , Tianjiao Yu , James Matthew Rehg , Xu Cao , Ismini Lourentzou

Egocentric videos capture how humans manipulate objects and tools, providing diverse motion cues for learning object manipulation. Unlike the costly, expert-driven manual teleoperation commonly used in training Vision-Language-Action models…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Tomoya Yoshida , Shuhei Kurita , Taichi Nishimura , Shinsuke Mori

Accurately estimating task progress is critical for embodied agents to plan and execute long-horizon, multi-step tasks. Despite promising advances, existing Vision-Language Models (VLMs) based methods primarily leverage their video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Yuelin Zhang , Sijie Cheng , Chen Li , Zongzhao Li , Yuxin Huang , Yang Liu , Wenbing Huang

Humans can perceive and reason about spatial relationships from sequential visual observations, such as egocentric video streams. However, how pretrained models acquire such abilities, especially high-level reasoning, remains unclear. This…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-04-18 Baining Zhao , Ziyou Wang , Jianjie Fang , Chen Gao , Fanhang Man , Jinqiang Cui , Xin Wang , Xinlei Chen , Yong Li , Wenwu Zhu

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

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

Comprehensive understanding of time series remains a significant challenge for Large Language Models (LLMs). Current research is hindered by fragmented task definitions and benchmarks with inherent ambiguities, precluding rigorous…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Yueyang Ding , HaoPeng Zhang , Rui Dai , Yi Wang , Tianyu Zong , Kaikui Liu , Xiangxiang Chu

Spatial memory, or the ability to remember and recall specific locations and objects, is central to autonomous agents' ability to carry out tasks in real environments. However, most existing artificial memory modules are not very adept at…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-02-18 Daniel Lenton , Stephen James , Ronald Clark , Andrew J. Davison

Recent advancements in Multi-modal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have opened new avenues for applications in Embodied AI. Building on previous work, EgoThink, we introduce VidEgoThink, a comprehensive benchmark for evaluating egocentric…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-16 Sijie Cheng , Kechen Fang , Yangyang Yu , Sicheng Zhou , Bohao Li , Ye Tian , Tingguang Li , Lei Han , Yang Liu

Long-term action anticipation from egocentric video is critical for applications such as human-computer interaction and assistive technologies, where anticipating user intent enables proactive and context-aware AI assistance. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Qiaohui Chu , Haoyu Zhang , Meng Liu , Yisen Feng , Haoxiang Shi , Liqiang Nie

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have recently shown strong performance in visual understanding, yet they often lack temporal awareness, particularly in egocentric settings where reasoning depends on the correct ordering and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Zhiyang Xu , Tian Qin , Bowen Jin , Zhengfeng Lai , Meng Cao , Lifu Huang , Peng Zhang

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

Embodied AI is a crucial frontier in robotics, capable of planning and executing action sequences for robots to accomplish long-horizon tasks in physical environments. In this work, we introduce EmbodiedGPT, an end-to-end multi-modal…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-09-15 Yao Mu , Qinglong Zhang , Mengkang Hu , Wenhai Wang , Mingyu Ding , Jun Jin , Bin Wang , Jifeng Dai , Yu Qiao , Ping Luo

Generating instructional images of human daily actions from an egocentric viewpoint serves as a key step towards efficient skill transfer. In this paper, we introduce a novel problem -- egocentric action frame generation. The goal is to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-25 Bolin Lai , Xiaoliang Dai , Lawrence Chen , Guan Pang , James M. Rehg , Miao Liu

Egocentric spatial memory (ESM) defines a memory system with encoding, storing, recognizing and recalling the spatial information about the environment from an egocentric perspective. We introduce an integrated deep neural network…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-01 Mengmi Zhang , Keng Teck Ma , Shih-Cheng Yen , Joo Hwee Lim , Qi Zhao , Jiashi Feng

Egocentric Referring Video Object Segmentation (Ego-RVOS) aims to segment the specific object actively involved in a human action, as described by a language query, within first-person videos. This task is critical for understanding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Haijing Liu , Zhiyuan Song , Hefeng Wu , Tao Pu , Keze Wang , Liang Lin

Embodied Visual Reasoning (EVR) seeks to follow complex, free-form instructions based on egocentric video, enabling semantic understanding and spatiotemporal reasoning in dynamic environments. Despite its promising potential, EVR encounters…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Kailing Li , Qi'ao Xu , Tianwen Qian , Yuqian Fu , Yang Jiao , Xiaoling Wang

Collecting large-scale egocentric video datasets with dense spatial and temporal annotations is costly, slow, and often constrained by environmental biases, privacy constraints, and limited coverage of interaction patterns. While synthetic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Rosario Leonardi , Francesco Ragusa , Daniele Materia , Alessandro Passanisi , James Fort , Jakob Engel , Giovanni Maria Farinella

Spatial reasoning is an essential problem in embodied AI research. Efforts to enhance spatial reasoning abilities through supplementary spatial data and fine-tuning have proven limited and ineffective when addressing complex embodied tasks,…