  Wearable cameras allow to acquire images and videos from the user's
perspective. These data can be processed to understand humans behavior. Despite
human behavior analysis has been thoroughly investigated in third person
vision, it is still understudied in egocentric settings and in particular in
industrial scenarios. To encourage research in this field, we present MECCANO,
a multimodal dataset of egocentric videos to study humans behavior
understanding in industrial-like settings. The multimodality is characterized
by the presence of gaze signals, depth maps and RGB videos acquired
simultaneously with a custom headset. The dataset has been explicitly labeled
for fundamental tasks in the context of human behavior understanding from a
first person view, such as recognizing and anticipating human-object
interactions. With the MECCANO dataset, we explored five different tasks
including 1) Action Recognition, 2) Active Objects Detection and Recognition,
3) Egocentric Human-Objects Interaction Detection, 4) Action Anticipation and
5) Next-Active Objects Detection. We propose a benchmark aimed to study human
behavior in the considered industrial-like scenario which demonstrates that the
investigated tasks and the considered scenario are challenging for
state-of-the-art algorithms. To support research in this field, we publicy
release the dataset at https://iplab.dmi.unict.it/MECCANO/.

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition