Wearable cameras allow to acquire images and videos from the user's perspective. These data can be processed to understand humans behavior. Despite human behavior analysis has been thoroughly investigated in third person vision, it is still understudied in egocentric settings and in particular in industrial scenarios. To encourage research in this field, we present MECCANO, a multimodal dataset of egocentric videos to study humans behavior understanding in industrial-like settings. The multimodality is characterized by the presence of gaze signals, depth maps and RGB videos acquired simultaneously with a custom headset. The dataset has been explicitly labeled for fundamental tasks in the context of human behavior understanding from a first person view, such as recognizing and anticipating human-object interactions. With the MECCANO dataset, we explored five different tasks including 1) Action Recognition, 2) Active Objects Detection and Recognition, 3) Egocentric Human-Objects Interaction Detection, 4) Action Anticipation and 5) Next-Active Objects Detection. We propose a benchmark aimed to study human behavior in the considered industrial-like scenario which demonstrates that the investigated tasks and the considered scenario are challenging for state-of-the-art algorithms. To support research in this field, we publicy release the dataset at https://iplab.dmi.unict.it/MECCANO/.
University of Catania（卡塔尼亚大学）；XGD-XENIA s.r.l.（XGD-XENIA有限公司）；University of Hertfordshire（赫特福德大学）
Wearable cameras allow to collect images and videos of humans interacting with the world. While human-object interactions have been thoroughly investigated in third person vision, the problem has been understudied in egocentric settings and in industrial scenarios. To fill this gap, we introduce MECCANO, the first dataset of egocentric videos to study human-object interactions in industrial-like settings. MECCANO has been acquired by 20 participants who were asked to build a motorbike model, for which they had to interact with tiny objects and tools. The dataset has been explicitly labeled for…
University of Catania（卡塔尼亚大学）；Next Vision s.r.l.（Next Vision有限公司）
We consider the problem of detecting Egocentric HumanObject Interactions (EHOIs) in industrial contexts. Since collecting and labeling large amounts of real images is challenging, we propose a pipeline and a tool to generate photo-realistic synthetic First Person Vision (FPV) images automatically labeled for EHOI detection in a specific industrial scenario. To tackle the problem of EHOI detection, we propose a method that detects the hands, the objects in the scene, and determines which objects are currently involved in an interaction. We compare the performance of our method with a set of sta…
IndEgo: A Dataset of Industrial Scenarios and Collaborative Work for Egocentric Assistants
Fraunhofer IPK（弗劳恩霍夫研究所）；Technical University of Berlin（柏林技术大学）；University of Tübingen（图宾根大学）；RWTH Aachen University（亚琛工业大学）；Leibniz University Hannover（汉诺威莱布尼茨大学）
University of Catania（卡塔尼亚大学）；Philips Research（飞利浦研究院）
Egocentric videos can bring a lot of information about how humans perceive the world and interact with the environment, which can be beneficial for the analysis of human behaviour. The research in egocentric video analysis is developing rapidly thanks to the increasing availability of wearable devices and the opportunities offered by new large-scale egocentric datasets. As computer vision techniques continue to develop at an increasing pace, the tasks related to the prediction of future are starting to evolve from the need of understanding the present. Predicting future human activities, traje…
EgoMusic-driven Human Dance Motion Estimation with Skeleton Mamba
FPT Software AI Center（FPT软件AI中心）；The University of Western Australia（西澳大学）；TU Wien（维也纳技术大学）；Meta；University of Arkansas（阿肯色大学）；National University of Singapore（新加坡国立大学）；University of Liverpool（利物浦大学）
Fondazione Bruno Kessler（布鲁诺·凯斯勒基金会）；University of Udine（乌迪内大学）
Video Question Answering (VideoQA) is a task that requires a model to analyze and understand both the visual content given by the input video and the textual part given by the question, and the interaction between them in order to produce a meaningful answer. In our work we focus on the Egocentric VideoQA task, which exploits first-person videos, because of the importance of such task which can have impact on many different fields, such as those pertaining the social assistance and the industrial training. Recently, an Egocentric VideoQA dataset, called EgoVQA, has been released. Given its sma…
SmartFactory-KL（凯泽斯劳滕智能工厂）；German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI)（德国人工智能研究中心）
Detecting small objects in video streams of head-worn augmented reality devices in near real-time is a huge challenge: training data is typically scarce, the input video stream can be of limited quality, and small objects are notoriously hard to detect. In industrial scenarios, however, it is often possible to leverage contextual knowledge for the detection of small objects. Furthermore, CAD data of objects are typically available and can be used to generate synthetic training data. We describe a near real-time small object detection pipeline for egocentric perception in a manual assembly scen…
Testing Human-Hand Segmentation on In-Distribution and Out-of-Distribution Data in Human-Robot Interactions Using a Deep Ensemble Model
Department of Management, Economics and Industrial Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, Via Lambruschini 24/b, 20156, Milan, Italy（管理、经济与工业工程系，米兰理工大学）；Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94709, USA（机械工程系，加州大学伯克利分校）；Department of Materials and Mechanical Engineering, University of Turku, Vesilinnantie 5, Turku, 20014, Finland（材料与机械工程系，图尔库大学）
