Challenges and Trends in Egocentric Vision: A Survey
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With the rapid development of artificial intelligence technologies and wearable devices, egocentric vision understanding has emerged as a new and challenging research direction, gradually attracting widespread attention from both academia and industry. Egocentric vision captures visual and multimodal data through cameras or sensors worn on the human body, offering a unique perspective that simulates human visual experiences. This paper provides a comprehensive survey of the research on egocentric vision understanding, systematically analyzing the components of egocentric scenes and categorizing the tasks into four main areas: subject understanding, object understanding, environment understanding, and hybrid understanding. We explore in detail the sub-tasks within each category. We also summarize the main challenges and trends currently existing in the field. Furthermore, this paper presents an overview of high-quality egocentric vision datasets, offering valuable resources for future research. By summarizing the latest advancements, we anticipate the broad applications of egocentric vision technologies in fields such as augmented reality, virtual reality, and embodied intelligence, and propose future research directions based on the latest developments in the field.
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- 2026Test-time Ego-Exo-centric Adaptation for Action Anticipation via Multi-Label Prototype Growing and Dual-Clue Consistency10 Mar 2026
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- 2025DETACH : Decomposed Spatio-Temporal Alignment for Exocentric Video and Ambient Sensors with Staged Learning23 Dec 2025
- 2025Building Egocentric Procedural AI Assistant: Methods, Benchmarks, and Challenges17 Nov 2025
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- 2025Evaluating the Impact of AI-Powered Audiovisual Personalization on Learner Emotion, Focus, and Learning Outcomes5 May 2025
- 2025FreeRet: MLLMs as Training-Free Retrieverscited by 8
- 2025Building Egocentric Procedural AI Assistant: Methods, Benchmarks, and Challengescited by 5
- 2026LifeEval: A Multimodal Benchmark for Assistive AI in Egocentric Daily Life Taskscited by 5
- 2026Decoding Pedestrian Crossing Intention from Egocentric Vision via Vision Language Modelscited by 1
- 2026The First EgoCross Challenge at EgoVis 2026: Cross-Domain Egocentric Video Question Answeringcited by 0
- 2026The First EgoCross Challenge at EgoVis 2026: Cross-Domain Egocentric Video Question Answering5 Aug 2026
- 2026Decoding Pedestrian Crossing Intention from Egocentric Vision via Vision Language Models8 Jun 2026
- 2026LifeEval: A Multimodal Benchmark for Assistive AI in Egocentric Daily Life Tasks28 Feb 2026
- 2025Building Egocentric Procedural AI Assistant: Methods, Benchmarks, and Challenges17 Nov 2025
- 2025FreeRet: MLLMs as Training-Free Retrievers29 Sep 2025
- 2026EgoPoseFormer v2: Accurate Egocentric Human Motion Estimation for AR/VRcited by 2
- 2026Test-time Ego-Exo-centric Adaptation for Action Anticipation via Multi-Label Prototype Growing and Dual-Clue Consistencycited by 2
- 2026Neuro-Symbolic Manipulation Understanding with Enriched Semantic Event Chainscited by 1
- 2025Evaluating the Impact of AI-Powered Audiovisual Personalization on Learner Emotion, Focus, and Learning Outcomescited by 0
- 2025DETACH : Decomposed Spatio-Temporal Alignment for Exocentric Video and Ambient Sensors with Staged Learningcited by 0
- 2026Egocentric Gaze Estimation via Neck-Mounted Cameracited by 0
- 2026SAVA-X: Ego-to-Exo Imitation Error Detection via Scene-Adaptive View Alignment and Bidirectional Cross View Fusioncited by 0
- 2026FlatLands: Generative Floormap Completion From a Single Egocentric Viewcited by 0
- 2026Map-Mono-Ego: Map-Grounded Global Human Pose Estimation from Monocular Egocentric Videocited by 0
- 2026Impact of Hand Impairment and Occlusions on Hand Pose Estimation Accuracy in Augmented Reality Applicationscited by 0
- 2026Understanding From Human Perspective: A Multi-agent System for Interactive Egocentric Medical Image Segmentationcited by 0
- 2026PuzzleMate: Benchmarking MLLMs for Egocentric Puzzle Assistancecited by 0
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- 2026Understanding From Human Perspective: A Multi-agent System for Interactive Egocentric Medical Image Segmentation19 Jul 2026
- 2026Impact of Hand Impairment and Occlusions on Hand Pose Estimation Accuracy in Augmented Reality Applications16 Jun 2026
- 2026Map-Mono-Ego: Map-Grounded Global Human Pose Estimation from Monocular Egocentric Video20 May 2026
- 2026Neuro-Symbolic Manipulation Understanding with Enriched Semantic Event Chains22 Apr 2026
- 2026FlatLands: Generative Floormap Completion From a Single Egocentric View16 Mar 2026
- 2026SAVA-X: Ego-to-Exo Imitation Error Detection via Scene-Adaptive View Alignment and Bidirectional Cross View Fusion13 Mar 2026
- 2026Test-time Ego-Exo-centric Adaptation for Action Anticipation via Multi-Label Prototype Growing and Dual-Clue Consistency10 Mar 2026
- 2026EgoPoseFormer v2: Accurate Egocentric Human Motion Estimation for AR/VR4 Mar 2026
- 2026Egocentric Gaze Estimation via Neck-Mounted Camera12 Feb 2026
- 2025DETACH : Decomposed Spatio-Temporal Alignment for Exocentric Video and Ambient Sensors with Staged Learning23 Dec 2025
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