EventHOI: Event-Driven Resource-Efficient Hand-Object Interaction Logging on Smartglasses

Le Zhang, Kailai Cui, Hao Chen, Vlad Roznyatovskiy, Jianzhong Zhang +3

Hand-object interactions (HOIs) can be captured by smartglasses to learn how people manipulate objects in daily life. Automatic logging of these interactions from an egocentric perspective provides time-stamped evidence of daily actions for applications like memory assistance. However, continuous RGB capture and wireless transmission exceed the energy and bandwidth budgets of smartglasses. We present EventHOI, an event-driven sensing and compression system that couples selective RGB capture with HOI-aware encoding to enable egocentric logging over Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) while preserving downstream HOI logging performance. Our key insight is to use low-power event sensing both to determine when RGB capture is needed and to identify where visual detail must be preserved. A lightweight IMU-based egomotion cancellation pipeline suppresses egomotion-induced events so that residual HOI motion can guide RGB triggering and spatial compression. We build a smartglasses prototype and conduct an end-to-end evaluation of EventHOI on a 50-hour egocentric benchmark with 97 subjects and a 20-hour real-world dataset we collect from 10 participants, together covering a broad range of…