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Hand gesture recognition has become an important research area, driven by the growing demand for human-computer interaction in fields such as sign language recognition, virtual and augmented reality, and robotics. Despite the rapid growth…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Manousos Linardakis , Iraklis Varlamis , Georgios Th. Papadopoulos

The possibility for humans to interact with physical or virtual systems using gestures has been vastly explored by researchers and designers in the last twenty years to provide new and intuitive interaction modalities. Unfortunately, the…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-01-26 Alessandro Carfì , Fulvio Mastrogiovanni

This paper presents a novel framework for automatic speech-driven gesture generation, applicable to human-agent interaction including both virtual agents and robots. Specifically, we extend recent deep-learning-based, data-driven methods…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2019-06-12 Taras Kucherenko , Dai Hasegawa , Gustav Eje Henter , Naoshi Kaneko , Hedvig Kjellström

Mixed Reality (MR) and Virtual Reality (VR) simulations are hampered by requirements for hand controllers or attempts to perseverate in use of two-dimensional computer interface paradigms from the 1980s. From our efforts to produce more…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-08-16 Thomas B Talbot , Chinmay Chinara

In this paper, we introduce a novel Multiscale Video Transformer Network (MVTN) for dynamic hand gesture recognition, since multiscale features can extract features with variable size, pose, and shape of hand which is a challenge in hand…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Mallika Garg , Debashis Ghosh , Pyari Mohan Pradhan

Hand gesture understanding is essential for several applications in human-computer interaction, including automatic clinical assessment of hand dexterity. While deep learning has advanced static gesture recognition, dynamic gesture…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Gianluca Amprimo , Alberto Ancilotto , Alessandro Savino , Fabio Quazzolo , Claudia Ferraris , Gabriella Olmo , Elisabetta Farella , Stefano Di Carlo

Due to the universal non-verbal natural communication approach that allows for effective communication between humans, gesture recognition technology has been steadily developing over the previous few decades. Many different strategies have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-07 Finlay McKinnon , David Ada Adama , Pedro Machado , Isibor Kennedy Ihianle

Gesture recognition is getting more and more popular due to various application possibilities in human-machine interaction. Existing multi-modal gesture recognition systems take multi-modal data as input to improve accuracy, but such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-01 Dinghao Fan , Hengjie Lu , Shugong Xu , Shan Cao

Providing users with accurate gestural interfaces, such as gesture recognition based on wrist-worn devices, is a key challenge in mixed reality. However, static machine learning processes in gesture recognition assume that training and test…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Junxiao Shen , Matthias De Lange , Xuhai "Orson" Xu , Enmin Zhou , Ran Tan , Naveen Suda , Maciej Lazarewicz , Per Ola Kristensson , Amy Karlson , Evan Strasnick

This paper focuses on enhancing human-agent communication by integrating spatial context into virtual agents' non-verbal behaviors, specifically gestures. Recent advances in co-speech gesture generation have primarily utilized data-driven…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-08-09 Anna Deichler , Simon Alexanderson , Jonas Beskow

Mobile devices' user interfaces are still quite similar to traditional interfaces offered by desktop computers, but those can be highly problematic when used in a mobile context. Human gesture recognition in mobile interaction appears as an…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2014-02-07 Ricardo João Silveira Santos Gamboa

We present GestOS, a gesture-based operating system for high-level control of heterogeneous robot teams. Unlike prior systems that map gestures to fixed commands or single-agent actions, GestOS interprets hand gestures semantically and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Artem Lykov , Oleg Kobzarev , Dzmitry Tsetserukou

Gestures are central to human communication, enriching interactions through non-verbal expression. Virtual avatars increasingly use AI-generated gestures to enhance life-likeness, yet evaluations have largely been confined to 2D. Virtual…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Axel Wiebe Werner , Jonas Beskow , Anna Deichler

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have shown strong potential for general-purpose robot manipulation by unifying perception and action. However, existing VLA systems primarily rely on textual instructions and struggle to resolve spatial…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Wenxuan Guo , Ziyuan Li , Meng Zhang , Yichen Liu , Yimeng Dong , Chuxi Xu , Yunfei Wei , Ze Chen , Erjin Zhou , Jianjiang Feng

Previous research in human gesture recognition has largely overlooked multi-person interactions, which are crucial for understanding the social context of naturally occurring gestures. This limitation in existing datasets presents a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-04 Xu Cao , Pranav Virupaksha , Wenqi Jia , Bolin Lai , Fiona Ryan , Sangmin Lee , James M. Rehg

Gaussian splatting has emerged as a powerful tool for high-fidelity reconstruction of dynamic scenes. However, existing methods primarily rely on implicit motion representations, such as encoding motions into neural networks or per-Gaussian…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Xinyu Zhang , Haonan Chang , Yuhan Liu , Abdeslam Boularias

We study the task of gesture recognition from electromyography (EMG), with the goal of enabling expressive human-computer interaction at high accuracy, while minimizing the time required for new subjects to provide calibration data. To…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-11-30 Niklas Smedemark-Margulies , Yunus Bicer , Elifnur Sunger , Tales Imbiriba , Eugene Tunik , Deniz Erdogmus , Mathew Yarossi , Robin Walters

In this paper, we propose to compress human body video with interactive semantics, which can facilitate video coding to be interactive and controllable by manipulating semantic-level representations embedded in the coded bitstream. In…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-23 Bolin Chen , Shanzhi Yin , Hanwei Zhu , Lingyu Zhu , Zihan Zhang , Jie Chen , Ru-Ling Liao , Shiqi Wang , Yan Ye

Sign(ed) languages use gestures, such as hand or head movements, for communication. Sign language recognition is an assistive technology for individuals with hearing disability and its goal is to improve such individuals' life quality by…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2019-11-04 Mohammad Eslami , Mahdi Karami , Sedigheh Eslami , Solale Tabarestani , Farah Torkamani-Azar , Christoph Meinel

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