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MAND: Modality-Aware Novelty Detection for Open-World Egocentric Activity Recognition

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arXiv:2603. 16970v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Multimodal egocentric activity recognition integrates visual and inertial cues for robust first-person behavior understanding.

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