arXiv Computer Vision

EventEgoHands++: Event-based Egocentric 3D Hand Mesh Reconstruction with Real Dataset

EventEgoHands++ is a new framework for reconstructing 3D hand meshes from egocentric event-based cameras. It introduces a Hand Detector that provides instance-level bounding boxes and masks for left and right hands, and an Adaptive Attention module that uses these detections to model spatial relationships and interactions. The authors extend the synthetic N-HOT3D dataset and create EEH‑R, a large real-world event-based egocentric hand dataset with about 1 million annotated frames, and show that their method outperforms existing baselines on both synthetic and real data.

arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 7

MINT: A Unified Model for World-Space Camera and Hand Motion Estimation from Scalable Egocentric Pipeline Supervision

MINT is a foundation model that directly predicts world-space two-hand trajectories from egocentric RGB video, jointly estimating camera motion, hand states, and hand presence in a single spatiotemporal representation. It uses an open-source labeling pipeline, EGOPIPELINE, to generate large-scale pseudo-labels for pretraining, followed by fine-tuning on a small set of high-quality joint annotations. The model outperforms existing multi-stage approaches in accuracy and speed, and generalizes zero‑shot to unseen egocentric datasets.

By Zijie Zhu, Weiren Cai, Yizhou Wang, Zhenjie Yang, Yide Liu, Jiahao Chen, Guanqi He
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 1

ACE-Ego-Hand: Repurposing Video Diffusion Models for Occlusion-Robust Egocentric 3D Hand Motion Recovery

arXiv:2608.20308v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Egocentric video offers scalable manipulation data for embodied AI, yet recovering metric 3D hand trajectories remains challenging due to severe ob...

By Yufei Liu, Xixi Wang, Hao Li, Ganlong Zhao, Kaitong Cai, Chengkai Jin, Chunxiao Liu, Jianbo Liu, Siyuan Huang, Xingang Pan, Hongsheng Li
arXiv Computer Vision
Aug 21

DreamHand: Repurposing Video Diffusion Models for Occlusion-Robust Egocentric 3D Hand Motion Recovery

arXiv:2608. 20308v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Egocentric video offers scalable manipulation data for embodied AI, yet recovering metric 3D hand trajectories remains challenging due to severe object occlusion and frequent out-of-sight gaps.

By Yufei Liu, Xixi Wang, Hao Li, Ganlong Zhao, Kaitong Cai, Chengkai Jin, Chunxiao Liu, Jianbo Liu, Siyuan Huang, Xingang Pan, Hongsheng Li
arXiv AI
2d ago

TouchSight: Bare-Handed Tactile Prediction from Egocentric Video via Generative Visual Augmentation

TouchSight is a monocular egocentric vision framework that predicts dense full-hand contact forces from video. It uses 500 hours of pressure‑glove recordings and hand‑object interaction data, and introduces TwinTouch‑20H, a dataset of 20 hours of paired visual data where generative models render gloved recordings as bare‑hand observations while preserving tactile labels. The system outperforms prior methods on OakInk2, generalizes qualitatively to natural bare‑hand egocentric videos from unseen datasets, and improves consistently as glove supervision scales.

By Danyan Zhou, Jinxuan Lu, Jiawei Lin, Tianxing Chen, Chuqiao Lyu, Wenbo Ding
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jul 9

Do Egocentric Video-Language Models Capture Both Hand- and Object-Centric Cues?

Hand-object interaction (HOI) recognition requires capturing both hand manipulations and object transformations. However, existing video-language models often fall into shortcuts by relying on spurious correlations among hands, objects, or environmental context, rather than reasoning from the appearance and dynamics of hands and objects themselves.