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Fine-grained Affordance Annotation for Egocentric Hand-Object Interaction Videos

7 Feb 2023arXiv:2302.03292archive 2025-07-28

Zecheng Yu, Yifei HUANG, Ryosuke Furuta, Takuma Yagi, Yusuke Goutsu, Yoichi Sato

Object affordance is an important concept in hand-object interaction, providing information on action possibilities based on human motor capacity and objects' physical property thus benefiting tasks such as action anticipation and robot imitation learning. However, the definition of affordance in existing datasets often: 1) mix up affordance with object functionality; 2) confuse affordance with goal-related action; and 3) ignore human motor capacity. This paper proposes an efficient annotation scheme to address these issues by combining goal-irrelevant motor actions and grasp types as affordance labels and introducing the concept of mechanical action to represent the action possibilities between two objects. We provide new annotations by applying this scheme to the EPIC-KITCHENS dataset and test our annotation with tasks such as affordance recognition, hand-object interaction hotspots prediction, and cross-domain evaluation of affordance. The results show that models trained with our annotation can distinguish affordance from other concepts, predict fine-grained interaction possibilities on objects, and generalize through different domains.

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Action AnticipationAction RecognitionAffordance RecognitionHuman-Object Interaction DetectionImitation LearningObject

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