Leveraging Synthetic Data for Enhancing Egocentric Hand-Object Interaction Detection

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Main Authors: Leonardi, Rosario, Furnari, Antonino, Ragusa, Francesco, Farinella, Giovanni Maria
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author Leonardi, Rosario
Furnari, Antonino
Ragusa, Francesco
Farinella, Giovanni Maria
author_facet Leonardi, Rosario
Furnari, Antonino
Ragusa, Francesco
Farinella, Giovanni Maria
contents In this work, we explore the role of synthetic data in improving the detection of Hand-Object Interactions from egocentric images. Through extensive experimentation and comparative analysis on VISOR, EgoHOS, and ENIGMA-51 datasets, our findings demonstrate the potential of synthetic data to significantly improve HOI detection, particularly when real labeled data are scarce or unavailable. By using synthetic data and only 10% of the real labeled data, we achieve improvements in Overall AP over models trained exclusively on real data, with gains of +5.67% on VISOR, +8.24% on EgoHOS, and +11.69% on ENIGMA-51. Furthermore, we systematically study how aligning synthetic data to specific real-world benchmarks with respect to objects, grasps, and environments, showing that the effectiveness of synthetic data consistently improves with better synthetic-real alignment. As a result of this work, we release a new data generation pipeline and the new HOI-Synth benchmark, which augments existing datasets with synthetic images of hand-object interaction. These data are automatically annotated with hand-object contact states, bounding boxes, and pixel-wise segmentation masks. All data, code, and tools for synthetic data generation are available at: https://fpv-iplab.github.io/HOI-Synth/.
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spellingShingle Leveraging Synthetic Data for Enhancing Egocentric Hand-Object Interaction Detection
Leonardi, Rosario
Furnari, Antonino
Ragusa, Francesco
Farinella, Giovanni Maria
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
In this work, we explore the role of synthetic data in improving the detection of Hand-Object Interactions from egocentric images. Through extensive experimentation and comparative analysis on VISOR, EgoHOS, and ENIGMA-51 datasets, our findings demonstrate the potential of synthetic data to significantly improve HOI detection, particularly when real labeled data are scarce or unavailable. By using synthetic data and only 10% of the real labeled data, we achieve improvements in Overall AP over models trained exclusively on real data, with gains of +5.67% on VISOR, +8.24% on EgoHOS, and +11.69% on ENIGMA-51. Furthermore, we systematically study how aligning synthetic data to specific real-world benchmarks with respect to objects, grasps, and environments, showing that the effectiveness of synthetic data consistently improves with better synthetic-real alignment. As a result of this work, we release a new data generation pipeline and the new HOI-Synth benchmark, which augments existing datasets with synthetic images of hand-object interaction. These data are automatically annotated with hand-object contact states, bounding boxes, and pixel-wise segmentation masks. All data, code, and tools for synthetic data generation are available at: https://fpv-iplab.github.io/HOI-Synth/.
title Leveraging Synthetic Data for Enhancing Egocentric Hand-Object Interaction Detection
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.29733