UniEgoMotion: A Unified Model for Egocentric Motion Reconstruction, Forecasting, and Generation
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Abstract (arXiv)
Egocentric human motion generation and forecasting with scene-context is crucial for enhancing AR/VR experiences, improving human-robot interaction, advancing assistive technologies, and enabling adaptive healthcare solutions by accurately predicting and simulating movement from a first-person perspective. However, existing methods primarily focus on third-person motion synthesis with structured 3D scene contexts, limiting their effectiveness in real-world egocentric settings where limited field of view, frequent occlusions, and dynamic cameras hinder scene perception. To bridge this gap, we introduce Egocentric Motion Generation and Egocentric Motion Forecasting, two novel tasks that utilize first-person images for scene-aware motion synthesis without relying on explicit 3D scene. We propose UniEgoMotion, a unified conditional motion diffusion model with a novel head-centric motion representation tailored for egocentric devices. UniEgoMotion's simple yet effective design supports egocentric motion reconstruction, forecasting, and generation from first-person visual inputs in a unified framework. Unlike previous works that overlook scene semantics, our model effectively extracts image-based scene context to infer plausible 3D motion. To facilitate training, we introduce EE4D-Motion, a large-scale dataset derived from EgoExo4D, augmented with pseudo-ground-truth 3D motion annotations. UniEgoMotion achieves state-of-the-art performance in egocentric motion reconstruction and is the first to generate motion from a single egocentric image. Extensive evaluations demonstrate the effectiveness of our unified framework, setting a new benchmark for egocentric motion modeling and unlocking new possibilities for egocentric applications.
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- 2025EgoControl: Controllable Egocentric Video Generation via 3D Full-Body Posescited by 8
- 2025EgoReAct: Egocentric Video-Driven 3D Human Reaction Generationcited by 7
- 2025ECHO: Ego-Centric modeling of Human-Object interactionscited by 5
- 2025Affordance-Guided Diffusion Prior for 3D Hand Reconstructioncited by 2
- 2026Seeing Without Eyes: 4D Human-Scene Understanding from Wearable IMUscited by 2
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- 2026Ego-Human Motion Prediction with 3D-Aware LLMcited by 1
- 2026ReViV: Reconstructing the Viewer and the View in 4D from Monocular Egocentric Videocited by 1
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- 2026EgoMotion: Hierarchical Reasoning and Diffusion for Egocentric Vision-Language Motion Generationcited by 0
- 2026Encore: Conditioning Trajectory Forecasting via Biased Ego Rehearsalscited by 0
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- 2026ReViV: Reconstructing the Viewer and the View in 4D from Monocular Egocentric Video20 Jul 2026
- 2026MIME: Multimodal Interactive Motion Encoder18 Jul 2026
- 2026Ego-Human Motion Prediction with 3D-Aware LLM8 Jul 2026
- 2026EgoPriMo: Egocentric Motion Generation for Interactive Humanoid Control7 Jun 2026
- 2026Map-Mono-Ego: Map-Grounded Global Human Pose Estimation from Monocular Egocentric Video20 May 2026
- 2026EgoForce: Robust Online Egocentric Motion Reconstruction via Diffusion Forcing13 May 2026
- 2026Encore: Conditioning Trajectory Forecasting via Biased Ego Rehearsals12 May 2026
- 2026Seeing Without Eyes: 4D Human-Scene Understanding from Wearable IMUs23 Apr 2026
- 2026EgoMotion: Hierarchical Reasoning and Diffusion for Egocentric Vision-Language Motion Generation21 Apr 2026
- 2025EgoReAct: Egocentric Video-Driven 3D Human Reaction Generation28 Dec 2025
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- 2025Prime and Reach: Synthesising Body Motion for Gaze-Primed Object Reach18 Dec 2025
- 2025EgoControl: Controllable Egocentric Video Generation via 3D Full-Body Poses22 Nov 2025
- 2025Affordance-Guided Diffusion Prior for 3D Hand Reconstruction1 Oct 2025
- 2025ECHO: Ego-Centric modeling of Human-Object interactions29 Aug 2025
- 2025EgoControl: Controllable Egocentric Video Generation via 3D Full-Body Posescited by 8
- 2025EgoReAct: Egocentric Video-Driven 3D Human Reaction Generationcited by 7
- 2025ECHO: Ego-Centric modeling of Human-Object interactionscited by 5
- 2026Seeing Without Eyes: 4D Human-Scene Understanding from Wearable IMUscited by 2
- 2025Prime and Reach: Synthesising Body Motion for Gaze-Primed Object Reachcited by 1
- 2026Ego-Human Motion Prediction with 3D-Aware LLMcited by 1
- 2026ReViV: Reconstructing the Viewer and the View in 4D from Monocular Egocentric Videocited by 1
- 2025OmniEgoCap: Camera-Agnostic Sequence-Level Egocentric Motion Reconstructioncited by 0
- 2026Encore: Conditioning Trajectory Forecasting via Biased Ego Rehearsalscited by 0
- 2026EgoForce: Robust Online Egocentric Motion Reconstruction via Diffusion Forcingcited by 0
- 2026Map-Mono-Ego: Map-Grounded Global Human Pose Estimation from Monocular Egocentric Videocited by 0
- 2026EgoPriMo: Egocentric Motion Generation for Interactive Humanoid Controlcited by 0
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- 2026World Motion Models: Flexible Sequence Modeling of SE(3) Trajectories1 Oct 2026
- 2026Seeing the World and the Self from Egocentric Video1 Sep 2026
- 2026ReViV: Reconstructing the Viewer and the View in 4D from Monocular Egocentric Video20 Jul 2026
- 2026MIME: Multimodal Interactive Motion Encoder18 Jul 2026
- 2026Ego-Human Motion Prediction with 3D-Aware LLM8 Jul 2026
- 2026EgoPriMo: Egocentric Motion Generation for Interactive Humanoid Control7 Jun 2026
- 2026Map-Mono-Ego: Map-Grounded Global Human Pose Estimation from Monocular Egocentric Video20 May 2026
- 2026EgoForce: Robust Online Egocentric Motion Reconstruction via Diffusion Forcing13 May 2026
- 2026Encore: Conditioning Trajectory Forecasting via Biased Ego Rehearsals12 May 2026
- 2026Seeing Without Eyes: 4D Human-Scene Understanding from Wearable IMUs23 Apr 2026
- 2025EgoReAct: Egocentric Video-Driven 3D Human Reaction Generation28 Dec 2025
- 2025OmniEgoCap: Camera-Agnostic Sequence-Level Egocentric Motion Reconstruction22 Dec 2025
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