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New EMPIRE framework advances hand-motion forecasting with explicit manipulation planning

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Researchers have introduced EMPIRE, a novel two-stage framework designed to improve the forecasting of egocentric hand motions. This method first learns explicit manipulation plans from multimodal context to understand hand-object interactions, and then uses a motion generator to synthesize future hand movements based on these frozen plans. This approach prevents interference between manipulation learning and motion synthesis. EMPIRE also incorporates EMPIRE-651K, a new dataset with over 650,000 training windows across 111 tasks, and has demonstrated state-of-the-art accuracy in forecasting hand motions. AI

IMPACT This framework could enhance the capabilities of intelligent interactive systems by improving the prediction of human hand movements in complex tasks.

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New EMPIRE framework advances hand-motion forecasting with explicit manipulation planning

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  1. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Wen Wang, Ruibing Hou, Hong Chang, Shiguang Shan, Xilin Chen ·

    EMPIRE: Explicit Manipulation Planning as a Learnable Intermediate Representation for Egocentric Hand-Motion Forecasting

    arXiv:2608.22449v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Forecasting dexterous hand motions from egocentric observations is fundamental to intelligent interactive systems. Existing VLM-based methods typically map observations directly to future motions, overlooking the underlying manipu…

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