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Talking to Me or Someone Else? Rethinking Talk-to-Me Detection in Egocentric Videos

arXiv · AI, language, vision and robotics · article · Sep 12, 2026 · UTC

Online understanding of who is talking to the camera wearer is a key capability for egocentric social interaction. However, existing talk-to-me (TTM) studies are commonly formulated as offline clip-level recognition, which is poorly aligned with online interaction and overlooks the diverse non-TTM speaking states that naturally arise in egocentric videos. In this paper, we revisit this problem by reformulating it as an online, frame-level prediction task. Instead of treating TTM as a binary problem against a single negative class, we model it in the presence of diverse and previously underexpl

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