EgoExoLearn: A Dataset for Bridging Asynchronous Ego- and Exo-centric View of Procedural Activities in Real World

OpenGVLab, Shanghai AI Laboratory
Dataset Illustration

EgoExoLearn is a dataset that emulates the human asynchronous demonstration following process. It contains demonstration videos of multiple tasks, together with egocentric videos recorded by participants replicating the procedure after watching the demonstrations. The dataset comprises gaze signals and fine-grained multi-level multi-modal annotations, enabling the exploration of key features in this context such as cross-view association and cross-view action planning.

Abstract

Being able to map the activities of others into one's own point of view is one fundamental human skill even from a very early age. Taking a step toward understanding this human ability, we introduce EgoExoLearn, a large-scale dataset that emulates the human demonstration following process, in which individuals record egocentric videos as they execute tasks guided by demonstration videos. Focusing on the potential applications in daily assistance and professional support, EgoExoLearn contains egocentric and demonstration video data spanning 120 hours captured in daily life scenarios and specialized laboratories. Along with the videos we record high-quality gaze data and provide detailed multimodal annotations, formulating a playground for modeling the human ability to bridge asynchronous procedural actions from different viewpoints. To this end, we present benchmarks such as cross-view association, cross-view action planning, and cross-view referenced skill assessment, along with detailed analysis. We expect EgoExoLearn can serve as an important resource for bridging the actions across views, thus paving the way for creating AI agents capable of seamlessly learning by observing humans in the real world.

News

[November 29, 2023] Pilot version webpage release.

[March 24, 2024] Code and data release.