The paper introduces a redundancy-aware fusion framework for EgoExo proficiency estimation, which integrates fine-grained motion cues from egocentric views with spatial context from exocentric views. It identifies multiview redundancy and overfitting as key challenges and proposes two modules—AdaMVS for adaptive view selection and VIB-GB for compressing redundant signals—to address them. Experiments on EgoExo-4D and EgoExo-Fitness show that the method learns to select informative views and fuse them effectively, achieving state‑of‑the‑art results.
By Xu Dong, Wanqing Li, Anthony Adeyemi-Ejeye, Andrew Gilbert
arXiv:2607. 11523v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: When should an intelligent assistant speak up without being asked?
By Gong Sitong, Tianyu Yan, Caixin Kang, Bo Zheng, Xiang Ruan, Huchuan Lu, Kaipeng Zhang, Yoichi Sato, Yifei Huang
arXiv:2606. 20559v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Egocentric video understanding is inherently limited by the narrow perspective of wearable cameras: a single viewpoint, a single modality, a single model cannot capture the full richness of human action.
By Wenhao Chi, Arkaprava Sinha, Dominick Reilly, Hieu Le, Srijan Das
When should an intelligent assistant speak up without being asked? Continuous egocentric video offers rich, evolving context that enables a new form of assistance: one that is proactive rather than merely reactive.
HALO is a heterogeneity‑aware, language‑aligned foundation model for inertial measurement unit (IMU) based human activity recognition. It uses a two‑stage training process: first, a self‑supervised encoder learns to handle diverse sensor configurations and natural‑language sensor descriptions; second, the encoder is aligned with text embeddings through synonym‑aware contrastive learning, enabling open‑set recognition via cosine similarity. Trained on ten public HAR datasets, HALO outperforms five state‑of‑the‑art baselines across eight metrics while using only ~35 M parameters, and improves zero‑shot open‑set accuracy by 13.7 percentage points over 87 training labels.
By Zihan Ding, Liyu Zhang, Xiaomin Ouyang
EgoMemReason is a new benchmark for week‑long egocentric video understanding that focuses on memory‑driven reasoning rather than simple perception tasks. It tests three memory types—entity, event, and behavior—across 500 questions, each requiring evidence from an average of 5.1 video segments and 25.9 hours of backtracking. Evaluation of 17 models shows that even the best achieves only 39.6% accuracy, highlighting the difficulty of long‑horizon memory in multimodal systems.
By Ziyang Wang, Yue Zhang, Shoubin Yu, Ce Zhang, Zengqi Zhao, Jaehong Yoon, Hyunji Lee, Gedas Bertasius, Mohit Bansal
arXiv:2607. 16350v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Sensor-based human activity recognition (HAR) has achieved significant progressed in fully supervised learning settings.
By Mohd Halim Mohd Noor, Abdulrahman M. A. Baraka
BinoGen is an automated framework that generates large-scale, embodiment-aware egocentric binocular visual experiences in indoor environments. It models environmental and observer variation through generative scene synthesis, probabilistic object instantiation, appearance randomization, stochastic trajectory generation, and configurable binocular camera setups, producing synchronized videos with dense multimodal supervision such as depth maps, optical flow, surface normals, semantic maps, object coordinates, and camera poses. Using BinoGen, the authors created a dataset of over 20 million annotated images, demonstrating that incorporating this data improves real-world visual perception tasks like depth estimation, object detection, and video object tracking, and that embodiment-specific adaptation enhances performance while joint training enables a single model to perform competitively across different observer embodiments.
By Chunpeng Li, Ya-tang Li
arXiv:2607. 27260v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multimodal continual learning (MMCL) aims to learn emerging knowledge from multimodal data while preserving knowledge.
By Zhen Zhang, Jielei Chu, Bin Liu, Tianrui Li
RevalExo is a new benchmark for locomotion mode recognition that focuses on functional daily activities performed by older adults and clinical cohorts. It includes 27 participants from three groups—healthy older adults, stroke survivors, and older adults with probable sarcopenia—recorded with lower-body IMUs and, for a subset, synchronized egocentric video. The dataset offers 10.1 hours of frame‑level annotations across 11 locomotion modes, and the authors evaluate unimodal, multimodal, cross‑population, and cross‑modal recognition challenges, finding that sensor fusion improves performance but transitions and generalization remain difficult.
By Diwas Lamsal, Juha Carlon, Reinhard Claeys, Maxim Yudayev, Louis Flynn, Tom Verstraten, David Beckw\'ee, Eva Swinnen, Mihai B\^ace, Bart Vanrumste, Benjamin Filtjens
arXiv:2606. 02120v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In this report, we address the problem of determining whether a user performs an action incorrectly from egocentric video data.
By Boyu Han, Qianqian Xu, Shilong Bao, Zhiyong Yang, Ruochen Cui, Qingming Huang
arXiv:2607. 29592v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The primary challenge of continual learning (CL) systems is to learn new tasks while remaining performant on previously learned tasks.
By Mostafa ElAraby, Samer B. Nashed, Liam Paull