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H2O: Two Hands Manipulating Objects for First Person Interaction Recognition

22 Apr 2021ICCV 2021 10arXiv:2104.11181archive 2025-07-28

Taein Kwon, Bugra Tekin, Jan Stuhmer, Federica Bogo, Marc Pollefeys

We present a comprehensive framework for egocentric interaction recognition using markerless 3D annotations of two hands manipulating objects. To this end, we propose a method to create a unified dataset for egocentric 3D interaction recognition. Our method produces annotations of the 3D pose of two hands and the 6D pose of the manipulated objects, along with their interaction labels for each frame. Our dataset, called H2O (2 Hands and Objects), provides synchronized multi-view RGB-D images, interaction labels, object classes, ground-truth 3D poses for left & right hands, 6D object poses, ground-truth camera poses, object meshes and scene point clouds. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first benchmark that enables the study of first-person actions with the use of the pose of both left and right hands manipulating objects and presents an unprecedented level of detail for egocentric 3D interaction recognition. We further propose the method to predict interaction classes by estimating the 3D pose of two hands and the 6D pose of the manipulated objects, jointly from RGB images. Our method models both inter- and intra-dependencies between both hands and objects by learning the topology of a graph convolutional network that predicts interactions. We show that our method facilitated by this dataset establishes a strong baseline for joint hand-object pose estimation and achieves state-of-the-art accuracy for first person interaction recognition.

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Action RecognitionObjectPose EstimationVocal Bursts Valence Predictionhand-object pose

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TaskDatasetModelMetricValueRank at snapshotLeaderboardReport
Action Recognition H2O (2 Hands and Objects) TA-GCN Actions Top-1 79.25 #8 of 11 Archive leaderboard report
Action Recognition H2O (2 Hands and Objects) TA-GCN Hand Pose 3D #8 of 11 Archive leaderboard report
Action Recognition H2O (2 Hands and Objects) TA-GCN Object Label No #8 of 11 Archive leaderboard report
Action Recognition H2O (2 Hands and Objects) TA-GCN Object Pose Yes #8 of 11 Archive leaderboard report
Action Recognition H2O (2 Hands and Objects) TA-GCN RGB No #8 of 11 Archive leaderboard report

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