Nymeria: A Massive Collection of Multimodal Egocentric Daily Motion in the Wild

TL;DR

Nymeria is the largest multimodal egocentric human motion dataset collected in natural environments, offering synchronized multi-device data, detailed annotations, and extensive language descriptions, enabling advanced research in motion understanding.

Contribution

It introduces the world's largest collection of in-the-wild human motion data with multimodal egocentric devices and synchronized third-person perspectives, along with hierarchical language annotations.

Findings

Demonstrated state-of-the-art performance in egocentric body tracking.

Showcased motion synthesis capabilities using the dataset.

Validated action recognition algorithms on diverse real-world data.

Abstract

We introduce Nymeria - a large-scale, diverse, richly annotated human motion dataset collected in the wild with multiple multimodal egocentric devices. The dataset comes with a) full-body ground-truth motion; b) multiple multimodal egocentric data from Project Aria devices with videos, eye tracking, IMUs and etc; and c) a third-person perspective by an additional observer. All devices are precisely synchronized and localized in on metric 3D world. We derive hierarchical protocol to add in-context language descriptions of human motion, from fine-grain motion narration, to simplified atomic action and high-level activity summarization. To the best of our knowledge, Nymeria dataset is the world's largest collection of human motion in the wild; first of its kind to provide synchronized and localized multi-device multimodal egocentric data; and the world's largest motion-language dataset. It provides 300 hours of daily activities from 264 participants across 50 locations, total travelling distance over 399Km. The language descriptions contain 301.5K sentences in 8.64M words from a vocabulary size of 6545. To demonstrate the potential of the dataset, we evaluate several SOTA algorithms for egocentric body tracking, motion synthesis, and action recognition. Data and code are open-sourced for research (c.f. https://www.projectaria.com/datasets/nymeria).