EgoCogNav: Cognition-aware Human Egocentric Navigation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2511.17581v1
• Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2025 15:59:36 GMT
• Title: EgoCogNav: Cognition-aware Human Egocentric Navigation
• Authors: Zhiwen Qiu, Ziang Liu, Wenqian Niu, Tapomayukh Bhattacharjee, Saleh Kalantari,
• Abstract summary: EgoCogNav is a multimodal egocentric navigation framework that predicts perceived path uncertainty as a latent state.<n>We show that EgoCogNav learns the perceived uncertainty that highly correlates with human-like behaviors such as scanning, hesitation, and backtracking while generalizing to unseen environments.
• Score: 6.817711914976566
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Modeling the cognitive and experiential factors of human navigation is central to deepening our understanding of human-environment interaction and to enabling safe social navigation and effective assistive wayfinding. Most existing methods focus on forecasting motions in fully observed scenes and often neglect human factors that capture how people feel and respond to space. To address this gap, We propose EgoCogNav, a multimodal egocentric navigation framework that predicts perceived path uncertainty as a latent state and jointly forecasts trajectories and head motion by fusing scene features with sensory cues. To facilitate research in the field, we introduce the Cognition-aware Egocentric Navigation (CEN) dataset consisting 6 hours of real-world egocentric recordings capturing diverse navigation behaviors in real-world scenarios. Experiments show that EgoCogNav learns the perceived uncertainty that highly correlates with human-like behaviors such as scanning, hesitation, and backtracking while generalizing to unseen environments.

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