Where is my Phone ? Personal Object Retrieval from Egocentric Images
This work addresses the issue of helping users locate misplaced personal belongings through wearable camera data, presenting an incremental improvement in object retrieval methods.
The paper tackles the problem of retrieving the last appearance of personal objects from egocentric images using a retrieval pipeline with temporal reranking and interleaving, achieving evaluation via Mean Reciprocal Rank.
This work presents a retrieval pipeline and evaluation scheme for the problem of finding the last appearance of personal objects in a large dataset of images captured from a wearable camera. Each personal object is modelled by a small set of images that define a query for a visual search engine.The retrieved results are reranked considering the temporal timestamps of the images to increase the relevance of the later detections. Finally, a temporal interleaving of the results is introduced for robustness against false detections. The Mean Reciprocal Rank is proposed as a metric to evaluate this problem. This application could help into developing personal assistants capable of helping users when they do not remember where they left their personal belongings.