Zero-Shot Object Re-Identification in Egocentric Kitchen Videos via Multi-Stage SAM3 Feature Fusion

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Main Authors: Klepachevskyi, Dmytro, Wong, Alexander, Rambhatla, Sirisha, Chen, Yuhao
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Published: 2026
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author Klepachevskyi, Dmytro
Wong, Alexander
Rambhatla, Sirisha
Chen, Yuhao
author_facet Klepachevskyi, Dmytro
Wong, Alexander
Rambhatla, Sirisha
Chen, Yuhao
contents Object re-identification (ReID) in egocentric kitchen videos is challenging due to rapid viewpoint changes, frequent occlusions, cluttered scenes, and large intra-class appearance variations. Objects may leave and re-enter the field of view, and the large diversity of instances with limited annotations makes supervised ReID difficult to scale, motivating zero-shot approaches. We study zero-shot object ReID on the EPIC-Kitchens benchmark, where the goal is to match active food and kitchen-tool instances across frames using only pre-trained visual features. We first evaluate five state-of-the-art feature extractors, including Vision-Language Models (VLMs) - CLIP, DINOv2, DreamSim, I-JEPA, and SAM3 - and show that zero-shot methods fail, with the best baseline achieving only 45.3% mAP. We then propose an Enhanced SAM3 ReID Pipeline, a zero-shot multi-stage method built around SAM3 segmentation as the core component. Stage 1 uses SAM3 to suppress background clutter. Stage 2 fuses embeddings from SAM3, DINOv2, and CLIP into a single L2-normalized descriptor. Stage 3 augments cosine similarity with mask-shape IoU for geometric consistency, and Stage 4 applies k-reciprocal re-ranking. The full pipeline improves performance by 7.5% mAP to 52.8%.
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spellingShingle Zero-Shot Object Re-Identification in Egocentric Kitchen Videos via Multi-Stage SAM3 Feature Fusion
Klepachevskyi, Dmytro
Wong, Alexander
Rambhatla, Sirisha
Chen, Yuhao
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Object re-identification (ReID) in egocentric kitchen videos is challenging due to rapid viewpoint changes, frequent occlusions, cluttered scenes, and large intra-class appearance variations. Objects may leave and re-enter the field of view, and the large diversity of instances with limited annotations makes supervised ReID difficult to scale, motivating zero-shot approaches. We study zero-shot object ReID on the EPIC-Kitchens benchmark, where the goal is to match active food and kitchen-tool instances across frames using only pre-trained visual features. We first evaluate five state-of-the-art feature extractors, including Vision-Language Models (VLMs) - CLIP, DINOv2, DreamSim, I-JEPA, and SAM3 - and show that zero-shot methods fail, with the best baseline achieving only 45.3% mAP. We then propose an Enhanced SAM3 ReID Pipeline, a zero-shot multi-stage method built around SAM3 segmentation as the core component. Stage 1 uses SAM3 to suppress background clutter. Stage 2 fuses embeddings from SAM3, DINOv2, and CLIP into a single L2-normalized descriptor. Stage 3 augments cosine similarity with mask-shape IoU for geometric consistency, and Stage 4 applies k-reciprocal re-ranking. The full pipeline improves performance by 7.5% mAP to 52.8%.
title Zero-Shot Object Re-Identification in Egocentric Kitchen Videos via Multi-Stage SAM3 Feature Fusion
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.26383