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arxiv: 2607.02425 · v1 · pith:PAOQ43YYnew · submitted 2026-07-02 · 💻 cs.CV

Learning to Evolve Scenes: Reasoning about Human Activities with Scene Graphs

Francesca Pistilli , Simone Alberto Peirone , Giuseppe Averta This is my paper

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classification 💻 cs.CV
keywords scene graphsego-centric videoactivity reasoninggraph evolutionscene forecastingfirst-person visionembodied AI
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The pith

Spatio-temporal scene graphs let models forecast how human actions reshape the environment over time.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The paper presents SG-Ego, a dataset of time-evolving scene graphs built from first-person videos, and GLEN, a model that reasons over sequences of these graphs. GLEN aligns the graphs with action descriptions and predicts future graph states driven by ongoing activities. This structured approach yields stronger results than raw video baselines on retrieval tasks and enables explicit reasoning on long-horizon benchmarks where video-only methods fall short.

Core claim

Spatio-temporal scene graphs supply an explicit, compositional representation of scene state that evolves with human activities. GLEN processes sequences of these graphs to align them with textual actions and to forecast sequences of graph edits conditioned on those actions, delivering competitive performance on EgoMCQ, EgoCVR, EXPLORE-Bench, and the introduced A-GEF task while supporting controllable predictions of scene change.

What carries the argument

GLEN, a graph-based model that operates over scene graph sequences to align them with textual actions and model their temporal evolution, paired with the activity-driven graph-edit forecasting (A-GEF) formulation that casts scene dynamics as structured transformations.

If this is right

  • Scene changes can be expressed and predicted as explicit sequences of graph transformations rather than implicit visual features.
  • Activity understanding gains an interpretable intermediate representation that supports editing and conditioning on specific actions.
  • Reasoning benchmarks that usually require multimodal language models become addressable with lighter graph-based architectures.
  • First-person video tasks gain access to compositional tracking of object relations across time.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • If scene-graph sequences prove sufficient for activity reasoning, embodied systems could simulate future states by editing graphs instead of rendering full video.
  • The same forecasting approach could transfer to other time-varying domains such as traffic scenes or multi-agent environments.
  • Combining the graph representation with language models might yield hybrid systems that retain both structure and open-ended generation.

Load-bearing premise

Spatio-temporal scene graphs can be accurately and consistently annotated from ego-centric video and preserve the essential information needed for activity reasoning without substantial loss compared to raw visual input.

What would settle it

Demonstrating that a raw-video model achieves higher accuracy than GLEN on the A-GEF forecasting task or on EXPLORE-Bench would undermine the claimed advantage of the scene-graph representation.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2607.02425 by Francesca Pistilli, Giuseppe Averta, Simone Alberto Peirone.

Figure 1
Figure 1. Figure 1: Reasoning over evolving scenes. Different activities induce structured changes in a scene over time. We formulate this process as activity-conditioned graph edit forecasting (A-GEF), where the temporal evolution of a scene is modeled as graph edits conditioned on an activity description. interest of the community on this topic [4–7], current approaches typically handle egocentric video understanding simila… view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Figure 2: The GLEN architecture for Action-conditioned Graph Edit Forecasting (A-GEF). The model takes a spatial graph Gt and a conditioning action actt and predicts the necessary edit to evolve the scene graph into the consolidated Gt+T . For Graph-Text Alignment (GTA), we extract a graph embedding from Gt+T and align it with the text embedding of actt. The Graph Encoder FG : G 7→ R d maps from the space of scene g… view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Figure 3: Qualitative examples from the SG-Ego dataset. Video UID: a1b43a0c-cfaa-44df-adcc-531697ce1f8c, from second 70.4 to 71.6. Notice that in Gt+T , multiple crochet hook nodes appear because the graph tracks the main actor while knitting, and the crochet hook bounding box changes significantly over time as the action progresses. 13 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p013_3.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: Qualitative examples from the SG-Ego dataset. Video UID: 727ffce8-20ec-4111-af26-698eb306e8c7, from second 74.6 to 75. Interestingly, by ag￾gregating information across the temporal action window, Gt:t+T captures a richer representation of the scene than the frame-level graph Gt. For example, the two knife nodes correspond to distinct knives both present in the environment but not captured in a single fram… view at source ↗
Figure 5
Figure 5. Figure 5: Qualitative examples from the SG-Ego dataset. Video UID: 31d6fe77-da70-42da-8f47-66bb79b9285b, from second 89.8 to 90.8. Notice that the temporal aggregation in Gt:t+T enriches the scene representation by incorporating objects and relations observed at different moments of the action sequence. While the initial graph Gt only captures a limited subset of the environment, the consolidated spatio-temporal gra… view at source ↗
Figure 6
Figure 6. Figure 6: Node and edge label distribution in SG-Ego-Edit. We define a vocabulary of object relation labels by mining the Ego4D taxonomy and the PVSG relation labels. Following this process, we obtain a set of Nobj = 1480 objects and Nrel = 387 relations. A.1 Annotation Pipeline For frame-level triplets extraction, we use Qwen3.5-9B [38]. We prompt the model with one frame at the time, disable thinking and set the g… view at source ↗
read the original abstract

Understanding human behavior while interacting with the surrounding world is crucial for many applications of embodied AI. First-person videos are particularly informative for this problem, as they well capture how activities reshape the scene over time. However, existing approaches often rely on implicit visual or language-aligned representations, disregarding structured reasoning over the scene dynamic. We argue that explicit, compositional and editable representations of human-environment interactions can play a crucial role for rich grounded activity understanding. To this end, we introduce SG-Ego, a large scale annotation set extending Ego4D with spatio-temporal scene graphs, where relations triplets are consolidated over time into explicit time-evolving descriptions of the scene state. To reason over this representation, we propose GLEN, a graph-based model that operates over scene graph sequences to both align them with textual actions and model their temporal evolution. In addition, we formulate the activity-driven graph-edit forecasting (A-GEF) problem, a novel task that casts scene dynamics as a sequence of structured transformations conditioned on ongoing actions, enabling explicit reasoning about how scenes change over time. We validate our approach across multiple downstream tasks, spanning retrieval benchmarks as EgoMCQ and EgoCVR, as well as long-horizon reasoning benchmarks as EXPLORE-Bench and the newly introduced A-GEF. GLEN achieves strong results compared to raw video baselines and it excels in reasoning settings, typically addressed only with MLLMs, while enabling controllable and structured predictions of scene dynamics driven by human activities. We believe our results establish spatio-temporal scene graphs, together with models that reason over them, as strong compositional and interpretable representations for video understanding and potentially beyond.

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Referee Report

2 major / 2 minor

Summary. The paper introduces SG-Ego, a large-scale extension of Ego4D with spatio-temporal scene graphs in which relation triplets are consolidated over time into explicit evolving scene-state descriptions. It proposes GLEN, a graph-based model that operates on scene-graph sequences to align them with textual actions and to model temporal evolution, and formulates the activity-driven graph-edit forecasting (A-GEF) task. Experiments on EgoMCQ, EgoCVR, EXPLORE-Bench and the new A-GEF benchmark report that GLEN outperforms raw-video baselines and matches or exceeds MLLMs on reasoning tasks while enabling controllable, structured predictions of scene dynamics.

Significance. If the central empirical claims hold after verification of scene-graph fidelity, the work would establish explicit, compositional spatio-temporal scene graphs as a viable alternative to implicit visual or language-aligned representations for grounded activity understanding in ego-centric video, with direct benefits for interpretability and controllability in embodied AI.

major comments (2)
  1. [§3 and §5] §3 (Dataset) and §5 (Experiments): The central claim that GLEN’s gains over raw-video baselines demonstrate the superiority of the scene-graph representation rests on the untested premise that the consolidated SG-Ego annotations retain all activity-critical visual cues (fine-grained appearance, occlusion, motion). No quantitative measure of information loss—such as human agreement rates on graph vs. video sufficiency or controlled ablations that remove specific relation types—is reported; this directly affects interpretation of the EgoMCQ/EgoCVR and A-GEF results.
  2. [§4.2 and Table 2] §4.2 (GLEN architecture) and Table 2: The model is described as operating over scene-graph sequences, yet the precise mechanism for temporal consolidation of relations and for conditioning graph edits on action tokens is not accompanied by an ablation that isolates the contribution of the consolidation step versus the raw per-frame graphs; without this, it is unclear whether the reported improvements on EXPLORE-Bench are attributable to the representation or to the particular consolidation heuristic.
minor comments (2)
  1. [Figure 3] Figure 3: The legend and axis labels for the A-GEF edit-distance curves are too small to read at print size; please enlarge or split the figure.
  2. [§2] §2 (Related Work): The discussion of prior scene-graph video work omits recent ego-centric graph datasets (e.g., Ego4D scene-graph extensions published after 2023); a brief comparison paragraph would help situate SG-Ego.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for the constructive comments. We address each major point below and commit to revisions that strengthen the empirical grounding of our claims.

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  1. Referee: [§3 and §5] §3 (Dataset) and §5 (Experiments): The central claim that GLEN’s gains over raw-video baselines demonstrate the superiority of the scene-graph representation rests on the untested premise that the consolidated SG-Ego annotations retain all activity-critical visual cues (fine-grained appearance, occlusion, motion). No quantitative measure of information loss—such as human agreement rates on graph vs. video sufficiency or controlled ablations that remove specific relation types—is reported; this directly affects interpretation of the EgoMCQ/EgoCVR and A-GEF results.

    Authors: We agree that direct quantification of information loss would strengthen interpretation of the results. The performance gains on EgoMCQ, EgoCVR and A-GEF indicate that the consolidated graphs retain the relational and state information required for these tasks, yet we acknowledge the absence of explicit verification. In the revision we will add (i) a human study reporting agreement rates on task sufficiency using graphs versus video and (ii) controlled ablations that remove specific relation categories, with results reported in §5. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [§4.2 and Table 2] §4.2 (GLEN architecture) and Table 2: The model is described as operating over scene-graph sequences, yet the precise mechanism for temporal consolidation of relations and for conditioning graph edits on action tokens is not accompanied by an ablation that isolates the contribution of the consolidation step versus the raw per-frame graphs; without this, it is unclear whether the reported improvements on EXPLORE-Bench are attributable to the representation or to the particular consolidation heuristic.

    Authors: The consolidation procedure is integral to producing the time-evolving scene states that define SG-Ego. We will expand §4.2 with a precise description of the consolidation algorithm and the conditioning of edits on action tokens. We will also add an ablation (new row in Table 2 or supplementary table) that compares GLEN trained on consolidated sequences versus raw per-frame graphs on EXPLORE-Bench, thereby isolating the contribution of the consolidation step. revision: yes

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No circularity; empirical claims rest on new annotations and benchmarks

full rationale

The paper introduces SG-Ego annotations, the GLEN model, and the A-GEF task as novel contributions, then reports empirical results on EgoMCQ, EgoCVR, EXPLORE-Bench and A-GEF. No equations, fitted parameters renamed as predictions, self-definitional loops, or load-bearing self-citations appear in the abstract or described chain. All performance claims are externally falsifiable via the new dataset and standard benchmarks rather than reducing to the model's own inputs by construction.

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    Omkar Thawakar, Dmitry Demidov, Ritesh Thawkar, Rao Muhammad Anwer, Mubarak Shah, Fahad Shah- baz Khan, and Salman Khan. Beyond simple edits: Composed video retrieval with dense modifications. In ICCV, 2025. 12 Appendix A The SG-Ego dataset SG-Ego Examples.We show some examples from our dataset in Figure 3, Figure 4 and Figure 5, reporting the spatial sce...

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