Egocentric devices, such as wearable front-facing cameras, provide a unique perspective for capturing the continuous interaction between a human viewer and the surrounding environment. A holistic and efficient multimodal model capable of reconstructing this 4D representation is therefore highly desirable.
arXiv:2609.01276v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Complete 3D perception from egocentric video requires recovering the surrounding scene and the wearer's full-body motion in a shared metric frame. Exis...
By Kai Guan, Minchao Jiang, Ruichen WangLi, Wentao Zhu, Lei Zhang
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: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: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:2609.15032v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Live free-viewpoint visualization of real humans is critical for immersive communication and interactive digital experiences. Existing methods either r...
By Hanzhang Tu, Zhanfeng Liao, Wei Min, Jiajun Zhang, Yebin Liu
arXiv:2609.38615v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Egocentric videos of human manipulation provide valuable visual experience for embodied intelligence, yet collecting such data at scale is costly. Ex...
By Hongjia Zhai, Xiyu Zhang, Haoran Zhang, Zhichao Ye, Haomin Liu, Guofeng Zhang, Ian Reid, Xingxing Zuo
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:2603.12789v3 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Recent advances in 3D foundation models have enabled joint reconstruction of humans and their surrounding environments. However, combining independ...
By Sangmin Kim, Minhyuk Hwang, Geonho Cha, Dongyoon Wee, Jaesik Park
The paper introduces 4DStreamCtrl, a system that unifies camera motion, object trajectories, and depth into a single 3D point‑track representation, enabling joint control, depth editing, and motion transfer in a single forward pass. By mining in‑the‑wild video for 3D motion supervision and encoding it with a lightweight Geometric Motion Head, the authors train a causal streaming student that can generate arbitrarily long videos in just four denoising steps, achieving 20 FPS on a single high‑end GPU for 480p video. This approach outperforms prior camera‑only, 2D, and offline‑3D methods in motion‑control precision while maintaining temporal coherence over hundreds of frames, thereby enabling interactive 4D‑controllable streaming generation for the first time.
By Shiqian Li, Chenguo Lin, Zhiguang Liu, Yu Tang, Jiarong Ou, Rui Chen, Yixin Zhu
arXiv:2609.08636v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Egocentric 4D interaction forecasting aims to anticipate both where future interactions will occur in 3D and how the human body will move to realize...
By Qiaohui Chu, Haoyu Zhang, Meng Liu, Haoxiang Shi, Dongmei Jiang, Liqiang Nie
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