SFHand: A Streaming Framework for Language-guided 3D Hand Forecasting and Embodied Manipulation

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🔥 Project Highlights

Feature	Description
📡 Streaming Framework	Autoregressive multi-modal hand forecasting
✋ Full-State Predictions	Hand type, 2D box, 3D pose, and trajectory
🧠 ROI-Enhanced Memory	Temporal hand awareness
🗣️ Language-guided	Follows natural language instructions

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🎬 Method Overview

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📝 Introduction

💡 SFHand is the first streaming architecture for language-guided 3D hand forecasting.

SFHand predicts future hand dynamics from continuous egocentric video + text instructions. The model outputs the following hand states autoregressively: Hand type, 2D bounding box, 3D hand pose, and 3D trajectory

Key components: Streaming autoregressive transformer and ROI-enhanced memory.

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📦 Project Status

Component	Status
EgoHaFL Dataset	✅
Pretraining Code	✅
Pretrained Weights	✅
Evaluation Code	✅
Embodied Evaluation (Franka Kitchen)	🔜 Coming soon
3D Hand Annotation Code	🔜 Coming soon

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🔧 Installation

We develop and test the project under: torch 2.8.0+cu129.

git clone git@github.com:ut-vision/SFHand.git

conda env create -f environment.yml
conda activate sfhand

pip install -r requirements.txt
conda install -c conda-forge libgl

Download MANO model and put MANO_LEFT.pkl and MANO_RIGHT.pkl under data/mano.

Download base_best.pt from EgoHOD checkpoint and place it at ./pre_ckpt/base_best.pt.

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📂 Dataset: EgoHaFL

EgoHaFL Dataset (annotations)： 👉 https://huggingface.co/datasets/ut-vision/EgoHaFL

Videos originate from Ego4D V1: https://ego4d-data.org/. We use 224p compressed clips.

Directory structure:

EgoHaFL
    ├── EgoHaFL_lmdb
    │   ├── data.mdb
    │   └── lock.mdb
    ├── EgoHaFL_train.csv
    ├── EgoHaFL_test.csv
    └── v1
        └── videos_224p

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🚀 Training & Evaluation

Train + Eval

bash ./exps/pretrain.sh

⚠️ Before training, edit configs in ./configs.

Eval + Visualization

python main.py --config_file configs/config/clip_base_eval.yml --eval --vis

Output visualizations → ./render_results/

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🧠 Pretrained Models

Download here:

👉 https://huggingface.co/ut-vision/SFHand

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🤖 Embodied Evaluation (Franka Kitchen)

⏳ Coming soon — code will be added once finalized.

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✍️ 3D Hand Annotation

⏳ Coming soon — detailed annotation tools, formats, and processing scripts will be released once finalized.

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📚 Citation

@article{liu2025sfhand,
  title={SFHand: A Streaming Framework for Language-guided 3D Hand Forecasting and Embodied Manipulation},
  author={Liu, Ruicong and Huang, Yifei and Ouyang, Liangyang and Kang, Caixin and and Sato, Yoichi},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2511.18127},
  year={2025}
}

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🙏 Acknowledgement

SFHand builds on EgoHOD. Thanks to all contributors of the original codebase.