EgoExoMem: Cross-View Memory Reasoning over Synchronized Egocentric and Exocentric Videos
2026-05-18 • Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
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Authors
Ruiping Liu, Junwei Zheng, Yufan Chen, Di Wen, Shaofang Quan, Chengzhi Wu, Jiaming Zhang, Kailun Yang, Kunyu Peng, Rainer Stiefelhagen
Abstract
Egocentric memory is widely used in embodied intelligence, but it may be insufficient for comprehensive spatial-temporal reasoning. Inspired by human recall from both field and observer perspectives, we introduce EgoExoMem, the first benchmark for cross-view memory reasoning over synchronized egocentric and exocentric videos. EgoExoMem contains $2.6K$ high-quality MCQs across eight temporal, spatial, and cross-view QA types. To support dual-view retrieval, we propose E$^2$-Select, a training-free frame selection method for synchronized ego-exo videos. It combines relevance-based budget allocation with per-view k-DPP sampling to handle view asymmetry and cross-view temporal consistency. Experiments show that ego and exo views provide complementary memory cues, while existing MLLMs remain far from solving the benchmark: the best model reaches only $55.3\%$. E$^2$-Select achieves state-of-the-art performance of $58.2\%$ over frame-selection and RAG-based memory baselines. Further analysis reveals systematic view-preference conflicts between question framing and answer grounding, underscoring the novelty and challenge of cross-view memory reasoning.