Egocentric Action-aware Inertial Localization in Point Clouds with Vision-Language Guidance

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Main Authors: Zhang, Mingfang, Yonetani, Ryo, Huang, Yifei, Ouyang, Liangyang, Liu, Ruicong, Sato, Yoichi
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author Zhang, Mingfang
Yonetani, Ryo
Huang, Yifei
Ouyang, Liangyang
Liu, Ruicong
Sato, Yoichi
author_facet Zhang, Mingfang
Yonetani, Ryo
Huang, Yifei
Ouyang, Liangyang
Liu, Ruicong
Sato, Yoichi
contents This paper presents a novel inertial localization framework named Egocentric Action-aware Inertial Localization (EAIL), which leverages egocentric action cues from head-mounted IMU signals to localize the target individual within a 3D point cloud. Human inertial localization is challenging due to IMU sensor noise that causes trajectory drift over time. The diversity of human actions further complicates IMU signal processing by introducing various motion patterns. Nevertheless, we observe that some actions captured by the head-mounted IMU correlate with spatial environmental structures (e.g., bending down to look inside an oven, washing dishes next to a sink), thereby serving as spatial anchors to compensate for the localization drift. The proposed EAIL framework learns such correlations via hierarchical multi-modal alignment with vision-language guidance. By assuming that the 3D point cloud of the environment is available, it contrastively learns modality encoders that align short-term egocentric action cues in IMU signals with local environmental features in the point cloud. The learning process is enhanced using concurrently collected vision and language signals to improve multimodal alignment. The learned encoders are then used in reasoning the IMU data and the point cloud over time and space to perform inertial localization. Interestingly, these encoders can further be utilized to recognize the corresponding sequence of actions as a by-product. Extensive experiments demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed framework over state-of-the-art inertial localization and inertial action recognition baselines.
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spellingShingle Egocentric Action-aware Inertial Localization in Point Clouds with Vision-Language Guidance
Zhang, Mingfang
Yonetani, Ryo
Huang, Yifei
Ouyang, Liangyang
Liu, Ruicong
Sato, Yoichi
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
This paper presents a novel inertial localization framework named Egocentric Action-aware Inertial Localization (EAIL), which leverages egocentric action cues from head-mounted IMU signals to localize the target individual within a 3D point cloud. Human inertial localization is challenging due to IMU sensor noise that causes trajectory drift over time. The diversity of human actions further complicates IMU signal processing by introducing various motion patterns. Nevertheless, we observe that some actions captured by the head-mounted IMU correlate with spatial environmental structures (e.g., bending down to look inside an oven, washing dishes next to a sink), thereby serving as spatial anchors to compensate for the localization drift. The proposed EAIL framework learns such correlations via hierarchical multi-modal alignment with vision-language guidance. By assuming that the 3D point cloud of the environment is available, it contrastively learns modality encoders that align short-term egocentric action cues in IMU signals with local environmental features in the point cloud. The learning process is enhanced using concurrently collected vision and language signals to improve multimodal alignment. The learned encoders are then used in reasoning the IMU data and the point cloud over time and space to perform inertial localization. Interestingly, these encoders can further be utilized to recognize the corresponding sequence of actions as a by-product. Extensive experiments demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed framework over state-of-the-art inertial localization and inertial action recognition baselines.
title Egocentric Action-aware Inertial Localization in Point Clouds with Vision-Language Guidance
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.14346