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Nuanced understanding and the generation of detailed descriptive content for (bimanual) manipulation actions in videos is important for disciplines such as robotics, human-computer interaction, and video content analysis. This study…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Fatemeh Ziaeetabar , Reza Safabakhsh , Saeedeh Momtazi , Minija Tamosiunaite , Florentin Wörgötter

Nowadays, hand gesture recognition has become an alternative for human-machine interaction. It has covered a large area of applications like 3D game technology, sign language interpreting, VR (virtual reality) environment, and robotics. But…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-28 Abir Sen , Tapas Kumar Mishra , Ratnakar Dash

This paper proposes an interactive system for mobile devices controlled by hand gestures aimed at helping people with visual impairments. This system allows the user to interact with the device by making simple static and dynamic hand…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-27 Samer Alashhab , Antonio Javier Gallego , Miguel Ángel Lozano

We present an attention based visual analysis framework to compute grasp-relevant information in order to guide grasp planning using a multi-fingered robotic hand. Our approach uses a computational visual attention model to locate regions…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-09-13 Zhen Deng , Ge Gao , Simone Frintrop , Jianwei Zhang

Affect is often expressed via non-verbal body language such as actions/gestures, which are vital indicators for human behaviors. Recent studies on recognition of fine-grained actions/gestures in monocular images have mainly focused on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-19 Ardhendu Behera , Zachary Wharton , Morteza Ghahremani , Swagat Kumar , Nik Bessis

The task in referring expression comprehension is to localise the object instance in an image described by a referring expression phrased in natural language. As a language-to-vision matching task, the key to this problem is to learn a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-13 Peng Wang , Qi Wu , Jiewei Cao , Chunhua Shen , Lianli Gao , Anton van den Hengel

This paper presents the maneuver of mouse pointer and performs various mouse operations such as left click, right click, double click, drag etc using gestures recognition technique. Recognizing gestures is a complex task which involves many…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-01-10 Rachit Puri

In this paper, we demonstrate the ability to recognize hand gestures in a non-contact, wireless fashion using only incoherent light signals reflected from a human subject. Fundamentally distinguished from radar, lidar and camera-based…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-17 Li Yu , Hisham Abuella , Md Zobaer Islam , John F. O'Hara , Christopher Crick , Sabit Ekin

In this work, we propose a gesture based language to allow humans to interact with robots using their body in a natural way. We have created a new gesture detection model using neural networks and a custom dataset of humans performing a set…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-06-16 Javier Laplaza , Joan Jaume Oliver , Ramón Romero , Alberto Sanfeliu , Anaís Garrell

Pose-based action recognition has drawn considerable attention recently. Existing methods exploit the joint positions to extract the body-part features from the activation map of the convolutional networks to assist human action…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-02 Lei Shi , Yifan Zhang , Jian Cheng , Hanqing Lu

Lately, there has been an increasing interest in hand gesture analysis systems. Recent works have employed pattern recognition techniques and have focused on the development of systems with more natural user interfaces. These systems may…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2013-12-18 Renata Cristina Barros Madeo , Priscilla Koch Wagner , Sarajane Marques Peres

We introduce a multi-stage framework that uses mean curvature on a hand surface and focuses on learning interaction between hand and object by analyzing hand grasp type for hand action recognition in egocentric videos. The proposed method…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-09 Sangpil Kim , Jihyun Bae , Hyunggun Chi , Sunghee Hong , Byoung Soo Koh , Karthik Ramani

This study mainly explores the application of natural gesture recognition based on computer vision in human-computer interaction, aiming to improve the fluency and naturalness of human-computer interaction through gesture recognition…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-25 Fenghua Shao , Tong Zhang , Shang Gao , Qi Sun , Liuqingqing Yang

Body language such as conversational gesture is a powerful way to ease communication. Conversational gestures do not only make a speech more lively but also contain semantic meaning that helps to stress important information in the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-10-14 Hitoshi Teshima , Naoki Wake , Diego Thomas , Yuta Nakashima , Hiroshi Kawasaki , Katsushi Ikeuchi

As robots increasingly enter human-centered environments, they must not only be able to navigate safely around humans, but also adhere to complex social norms. Humans often rely on non-verbal communication through gestures and facial…

New and more natural human-robot interfaces are of crucial interest to the evolution of robotics. This paper addresses continuous and real-time hand gesture spotting, i.e., gesture segmentation plus gesture recognition. Gesture patterns are…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Pedro Neto , Dário Pereira , Norberto Pires , Paulo Moreira

Hand gesture recognition has been granted as one of the emerging fields in research today providing a natural way of communication between man and a machine. Gestures are some forms of body motions which a person expresses when doing a work…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-12-27 Biswarup Ganguly , Amit Konar

In recent years, powered by the learned discriminative representation via graph neural network (GNN) models, deep graph matching methods have made great progresses in the task of matching semantic features. However, these methods usually…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-18 He Liu , Tao Wang , Yidong Li , Congyan Lang , Yi Jin , Haibin Ling

We present a dual-pathway approach for recognizing fine-grained interactions from videos. We build on the success of prior dual-stream approaches, but make a distinction between the static and dynamic representations of objects and their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-02 Tae Soo Kim , Jonathan Jones , Gregory D. Hager

This paper presents a novel method for learning a pose lexicon comprising semantic poses defined by textual instructions and their associated visual poses defined by visual features. The proposed method simultaneously takes two input…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Lijuan Zhou , Wanqing Li , Philip Ogunbona