Continual Multimodal Egocentric Activity Recognition via Modality-Aware Novel Detection
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| author | Lim, Wonseon Im, Hyejeong Kim, Dae-Won |
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| contents | Multimodal egocentric activity recognition integrates visual and inertial cues for robust first-person behavior understanding. However, deploying such systems in open-world environments requires detecting novel activities while continuously learning from non-stationary streams. Existing methods rely on the main logits for novelty scoring, without fully exploiting the complementary evidence available from individual modalities. Because these logits are often dominated by RGB, cues from other modalities, particularly IMU, remain underutilized, and this imbalance worsens over time under catastrophic forgetting. To address this, we propose MAND, a modality-aware framework for multimodal egocentric open-world continual learning. At inference, Modality-aware Adaptive Scoring (MoAS) estimates sample-wise modality reliability from energy scores and adaptively integrates modality logits to better exploit complementary modality cues for novelty detection. During training, Modality-wise Representation Stabilization Training (MoRST) preserves modality-specific discriminability across tasks via auxiliary heads and modality-wise logit distillation. Experiments on a public multimodal egocentric benchmark show that MAND improves novel activity detection AUC by up to 10\% and known-class classification accuracy by up to 2.8\% over state-of-the-art baselines. |
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| spellingShingle | Continual Multimodal Egocentric Activity Recognition via Modality-Aware Novel Detection Lim, Wonseon Im, Hyejeong Kim, Dae-Won Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Artificial Intelligence Multimodal egocentric activity recognition integrates visual and inertial cues for robust first-person behavior understanding. However, deploying such systems in open-world environments requires detecting novel activities while continuously learning from non-stationary streams. Existing methods rely on the main logits for novelty scoring, without fully exploiting the complementary evidence available from individual modalities. Because these logits are often dominated by RGB, cues from other modalities, particularly IMU, remain underutilized, and this imbalance worsens over time under catastrophic forgetting. To address this, we propose MAND, a modality-aware framework for multimodal egocentric open-world continual learning. At inference, Modality-aware Adaptive Scoring (MoAS) estimates sample-wise modality reliability from energy scores and adaptively integrates modality logits to better exploit complementary modality cues for novelty detection. During training, Modality-wise Representation Stabilization Training (MoRST) preserves modality-specific discriminability across tasks via auxiliary heads and modality-wise logit distillation. Experiments on a public multimodal egocentric benchmark show that MAND improves novel activity detection AUC by up to 10\% and known-class classification accuracy by up to 2.8\% over state-of-the-art baselines. |
| title | Continual Multimodal Egocentric Activity Recognition via Modality-Aware Novel Detection |
| topic | Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Artificial Intelligence |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.16970 |