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ESTHER: Egocentric Stereo Hand Estimation and Reconstruction in the Wild

ESTHER is an end‑to‑end model for egocentric stereo hand reconstruction that integrates stereo geometry, temporal reasoning, and a suitable output representation for wearable cameras. It is trained on pseudo‑labels from a calibrated pipeline and introduces the ESTHER3D benchmark, which pairs a large in‑the‑wild training set with a motion‑capture test set of true metric ground truth. Experiments demonstrate state‑of‑the‑art accuracy, strong generalization, and robustness to missing views, dropped frames, and extreme lighting or motion blur, while preserving metric scale even when reduced to a single monocular view.

arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 16

MEgoVista: Multi-view Ego-aware Motion Estimation for Metric 4D Hands and Head in the Wild

MEgoVista is an offline pipeline that converts a single unprepared egocentric video into metric two‑hand and head motion within a gravity‑aligned world frame. It uniquely reconstructs motion in environments beyond studio volumes, uses calibrated stereo for absolute scale, and evaluates its outputs against independent optical capture to audit accuracy. The system thus expands the settings where high‑fidelity hand‑motion labels can be generated from natural, head‑worn recordings.

By Jiangong Xiao (Northwestern Polytechnical University), Zhihao Zhang (Xi'an Jiaotong University), Yifei Dong (Maniformer), Chao Ma (Maniformer), Zhouyi Jin (Maniformer), Zhiwen Hou (Maniformer), Li Liu (Maniformer), Weihuang Chen (Xi'an Jiaotong University), Hongbin Sun (Xi'an Jiaotong University), Maoqing Yao (Maniformer)
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
Sep 16

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.

By Ryosei Hara, Wataru Ikeda, Masashi Hatano, Mariko Isogawa
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
Jun 19

Human Universal Grasping

arXiv:2606. 17054v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Humans can grasp objects effortlessly, whereas multi-fingered robots are far from this level of generality.

By Kevin Yuanbo Wu, Tianxing Zhou, Isaac Tu, Billy Yan, Irmak Guzey, David Fouhey, Dandan Shan, Lerrel Pinto
arXiv AI
Jul 2

EgoSim: Egocentric World Simulator for Embodied Interaction Generation

arXiv:2604. 01001v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We introduce EgoSim, a closed-loop egocentric world simulator that generates spatially consistent interaction videos and persistently updates the underlying 3D scene state for continuous simulation.

By Jinkun Hao, Mingda Jia, Ruiyan Wang, Hongrui Zhu, Jiafei Cao, Xihui Liu, Ran Yi, Lizhuang Ma, Jiangmiao Pang, Xudong Xu