arXiv AI

EgoGen: An Egocentric Synthetic Data Generator

EgoGen is a synthetic data generator designed for egocentric perception tasks, producing accurate ground‑truth training data by simulating natural human movements that steer virtual cameras. Its core is a human motion synthesis model that uses egocentric visual inputs to sense 3D environments, combined with collision‑avoiding motion primitives and a two‑stage reinforcement learning approach for closed‑loop perception and movement. The system eliminates the need for pre‑defined global paths, works in dynamic settings, and supports tasks such as mapping, localization, camera tracking, and human mesh recovery from first‑person views.

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
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 AI
Oct 15

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.

By Hongyu Ma, Hairong Qu, Shiqi Zhao, Yongsong Yang, Peng Yin
arXiv Computer Vision
Oct 21

Decoupling Action from Egocentric Observation for World Simulation

arXiv:2610.27946v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Egocentric action transfer aims to decouple the semantic action from egocentric observations and reproduce them in new visual contexts, enabling scalab...

By Yue Ma, Pengjie Song, Xinyu Wang, Yi He, Zeqian Long, Fangneng Zhan, Kaichen Zhou, Hongyu Liu, Hongfa Wang, Peihao Li, Haoyang Huang, Nan Duan, Qifeng Chen
arXiv Computer Vision
Oct 2

Ego2Act: Evaluating Goal-Directed Manipulation in Egocentric Video Generation

Ego2Act is a new benchmark that tests video generation models on goal‑directed, egocentric manipulation tasks. It contains 2,640 videos from 110 real‑world tasks, each requiring multiple steps of object manipulation to achieve a high‑level goal. The benchmark includes Ego2ActJudge, a reference‑free evaluation pipeline that better aligns with human judgments of task completion and physics plausibility.

By Patrick Amadeus Irawan, Iskandar Muda Rizky Parlambang, Rava Maulana, Qinrong Cui, Erland Hilman Fuadi, Zayd M. K. Zuhri, Nanda Ryaas Absar, Ahmed Elshabrawy, Wilfried Ariel Mulyawan, Shoubin Yu, Yue Zhang, Mohit Bansal, Alham Fikri Aji