EgoWorld: Egocentric Bimanual Manipulation with 3D World-Frame Hand Poses
A LeRobot v3.0 dataset of egocentric bimanual manipulation from human demonstrations, featuring world-frame 3D hand poses, full MANO hand meshes, camera trajectories, and dense depth maps.
Designed for training Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models, world models, and imitation learning policies from human hand demonstrations.
Key Features
| Feature |
Description |
| World-frame hand poses |
6 keypoints per hand (wrist + 5 fingertips) in metric 3D world coordinates |
| Full MANO mesh |
778 vertices per hand per frame for detailed hand shape |
| Bimanual actions |
40D world-frame delta actions (both hands + gripper openness) |
| Camera tracking |
6-DOF camera-to-world SE(3) poses |
| Dense depth |
Per-frame metric depth maps + colorized depth video |
| Gripper proxy |
Thumb-index distance as grasp openness signal |
Dataset Summary
| Property |
Value |
| Episodes |
2 |
| Total Frames |
514 |
| FPS |
10 Hz |
| State Dim |
40 (world-frame bimanual hand) |
| Action Dim |
40 (world-frame hand delta) |
| Hand Model |
MANO (778 vertices, 1538 faces) |
| Camera |
Egocentric (head-mounted) |
| RGB Resolution |
480 x 640 |
| Depth Resolution |
384 x 512 |
Episodes
| # |
Task |
Frames |
Duration |
| 0 |
Tidy the desk by organizing and rearranging items |
220 |
22s |
| 1 |
Fold and tidy clothes on the table |
294 |
29.4s |
State and Action Representation
observation.state / action β 40D float32, world frame
βββββββββββββ Left Hand (20D) βββββββββββββββ
β [0:3] wrist xyz (meters) β
β [3:6] thumb tip xyz β
β [6:9] index finger tip xyz β
β [9:12] middle finger tip xyz β
β [12:15] ring finger tip xyz β
β [15:18] pinky finger tip xyz β
β [18] gripper openness (thumb-index m) β
β [19] detection confidence [0,1] β
βββββββββββββ Right Hand (20D) ββββββββββββββ€
β [20:38] (same layout as left) β
β [38] gripper openness β
β [39] detection confidence β
βββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββ
action[t] = state[t+1] - state[t]
Quick Start
import pyarrow.parquet as pq
import numpy as np
data = pq.read_table("data/chunk-000/file-000.parquet")
state = np.array(data["observation.state"][50].as_py())
action = np.array(data["action"][50].as_py())
left_kps = np.array(data["observation.hand_left_keypoints_world"][50].as_py()).reshape(6, 3)
right_kps = np.array(data["observation.hand_right_keypoints_world"][50].as_py()).reshape(6, 3)
c2w = np.array(data["observation.camera_pose"][50].as_py()).reshape(4, 4)
mesh = np.array(data["observation.hand_left_vertices_camera"][50].as_py()).reshape(778, 3)
All Features (28 columns)
| Column |
Shape |
Frame |
Description |
observation.state |
(40,) |
World |
Bimanual hand pose |
action |
(40,) |
World |
Hand pose delta |
observation.camera_pose |
(16,) |
World |
Flattened c2w 4x4 SE(3) |
observation.camera_intrinsics |
(4,) |
Pixels |
[fx, fy, cx, cy] |
observation.camera_translation |
(3,) |
World |
Camera position (m) |
observation.camera_rotation_quat |
(4,) |
World |
Quaternion (w,x,y,z) |
observation.hand_{L/R}_keypoints_world |
(18,) |
World |
6 keypoints x 3D |
observation.hand_{L/R}_keypoints_camera |
(18,) |
Camera |
6 keypoints local |
observation.hand_{L/R}_vertices_camera |
(2334,) |
Camera |
Full MANO mesh |
observation.hand_{L/R}_cam_t |
(3,) |
Camera |
Hand 3D translation |
observation.hand_{L/R}_bbox |
(4,) |
Pixels |
[x1,y1,x2,y2] |
observation.hand_{L/R}_gripper |
(1,) |
World |
Thumb-index distance |
observation.hand_{L/R}_confidence |
(1,) |
β |
Detection score |
observation.hand_{L/R}_depth |
(1,) |
Camera |
Depth at hand (m) |
episode_index |
int64 |
β |
Episode ID |
frame_index |
int64 |
β |
Frame within episode |
timestamp |
float32 |
β |
Time (seconds) |
index |
int64 |
β |
Global frame index |
task_index |
int64 |
β |
Task ID |
next.done |
bool |
β |
Episode end flag |
Coordinate Frames
All hand keypoints in observation.state and hand_{L/R}_keypoints_world are in a fixed world frame (Y-down OpenCV convention). Hand mesh vertices in hand_{L/R}_vertices_camera are in the hand detector's local camera frame. To reconstruct the full mesh in 3D camera coordinates: mesh_3d = vertices + cam_t.
World-frame projection: 2D hand keypoints are projected onto the depth map, backprojected to 3D using camera intrinsics, then transformed to world frame via the camera-to-world pose.
Data Quality
| Metric |
Value |
| Left hand detection rate |
98.6% |
| Right hand detection rate |
100% |
| Wrist-to-camera distance |
0.3 - 1.0 m |
| Gripper openness range |
0.00 - 0.31 m |
| Action magnitude (mean) |
0.035 m/frame |
Citation
@misc{egoworld2026,
title={EgoWorld: Egocentric Bimanual Manipulation with 3D World-Frame Hand Poses},
author={Haoyang Li},
year={2026},
note={LeRobot v3.0 format}
}