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This paper studies graph-based active learning, where the goal is to reconstruct a binary signal defined on the nodes of a weighted graph, by sampling it on a small subset of the nodes. A new sampling algorithm is proposed, which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-05-19 Eyal En Gad , Akshay Gadde , A. Salman Avestimehr , Antonio Ortega

Accurately identifying hands in images is a key sub-task for human activity understanding with wearable first-person point-of-view cameras. Traditional hand segmentation approaches rely on a large corpus of manually labeled data to generate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-18 Yubo Zhang , Vishnu Naresh Boddeti , Kris M. Kitani

Tactile gesture recognition systems play a crucial role in Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) by enabling intuitive communication between humans and robots. The literature mainly addresses this problem by applying machine learning techniques to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Shaohong Zhong , Alessandro Albini , Giammarco Caroleo , Giorgio Cannata , Perla Maiolino

Gestures are a key component of non-verbal communication in traffic, often helping pedestrian-to-driver interactions when formal traffic rules may be insufficient. This problem becomes more apparent when autonomous vehicles (AVs) struggle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Alif Rizqullah Mahdi , Mahdi Rezaei , Natasha Merat

Dynamic hand tracking and gesture recognition is a hard task since there are many joints on the fingers and each joint owns many degrees of freedom. Besides, object occlusion is also a thorny issue in finger tracking and posture…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2018-09-18 Zhishuai Han , Xiaojuan Ban , Xiaokun Wang , Di wu

The current state-of-the-art hand gesture recognition methodologies heavily rely in the use of machine learning. However there are scenarios that machine learning cannot be applied successfully, for example in situations where data is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-12 Michalis Lazarou , Bo Li , Tania Stathaki

Estimating the poses of both a hand and an object has become an important area of research due to the growing need for advanced vision computing. The primary challenge involves understanding and reconstructing how hands and objects…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Taeyun Woo , Tae-Kyun Kim , Jinah Park

Pose based hand gesture recognition has been widely studied in the recent years. Compared with full body action recognition, hand gesture involves joints that are more spatially closely distributed with stronger collaboration. This nature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-25 Chuankun Li , Shuai Li , Yanbo Gao , Xiang Zhang , Wanqing Li

We explore hand-gesture recognition through the use of passive body-worn reflective tags. A data processing pipeline is proposed to address the issue of missing data. Specifically, missing information is recovered through linear and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-01 Sahar Golipoor , Richard T. Brophy , Ying Liu , Reza Ghazalian , Stephan Sigg

American Sign Language recognition is a difficult gesture recognition problem, characterized by fast, highly articulate gestures. These are comprised of arm movements with different hand shapes, facial expression and head movements. Among…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-20 Al Amin Hosain , Panneer Selvam Santhalingam , Parth Pathak , Huzefa Rangwala , Jana Kosecka

The gesture recognition using motion capture data and depth sensors has recently drawn more attention in vision recognition. Currently most systems only classify dataset with a couple of dozens different actions. Moreover, feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-09-02 Kyunghyun Cho , Xi Chen

Internet of Things is rapidly spreading across several fields, including healthcare, posing relevant questions related to communication capabilities, energy efficiency and sensors unobtrusiveness. Particularly, in the context of recognition…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-01 Giulia Cisotto , Martina Capuzzo , Anna V. Guglielmi , Andrea Zanella

Gesture recognition is a very essential technology for many wearable devices. While previous algorithms are mostly based on statistical methods including the hidden Markov model, we develop two dynamic hand gesture recognition techniques…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-08-16 Sungho Shin , Wonyong Sung

Pointing gestures are a common interaction method used in Human-Robot Collaboration for various tasks, ranging from selecting targets to guiding industrial processes. This study introduces a method for localizing pointed targets within a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-30 Noora Sassali , Roel Pieters

We propose a novel appearance-based gesture recognition algorithm using compressed domain signal processing techniques. Gesture features are extracted directly from the compressed measurements, which are the block averages and the coded…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-04 Shaojie Xu , Anvesha Amaravati , Justin Romberg , Arijit Raychowdhury

Retailers have long been searching for ways to effectively understand their customers' behaviour in order to provide a smooth and pleasant shopping experience that attracts more customers everyday and maximises their revenue, consequently.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-27 Mohammad Mahdi Kazemi Moghaddam , Ehsan Abbasnejad , Javen Shi

Graph convolutional networks (GCNs) aim at extending deep learning to arbitrary irregular domains, namely graphs. Their success is highly dependent on how the topology of input graphs is defined and most of the existing GCN architectures…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-28 Hichem Sahbi

This paper presents a new method for detecting and classifying a predefined set of hand gestures using a single transmitter and a single receiver utilizing a linearly frequency modulated ultrasonic signal. Gestures are identified based on…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2017-10-25 Mohammed H. AlSharif , Mohamed Saad , Tareq Y. Al-Naffouri

Over the years, hand gesture recognition has been mostly addressed considering hand trajectories in isolation. However, in most sign languages, hand gestures are defined on a particular context (body region). We propose a pipeline to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-07-22 Marc Martínez-Camarena , Jose Oramas , Mario Montagud-Climent , Tinne Tuytelaars

Recognizing the category of the object and using the features of the object itself to predict grasp configuration is of great significance to improve the accuracy of the grasp detection model and expand its application. Researchers have…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-03-03 Mingshuai Dong , Shimin Wei , Jianqin Yin , Xiuli Yu