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In this communication, we present a high resolution tactile plate that can localize one or two contact fingers. The localization principle is based on Lamb wave absorption. Fingers' contact will generate absorption signals while Lamb waves…

Classical Physics · Physics 2009-09-21 Yuan Liu , Jean-Pierre Nikolovski , Moustapha Hafez , Nazih Mechbal , Michel Vergé

In-hand manipulation tasks, particularly in human-inspired robotic systems, must rely on distributed tactile sensing to achieve precise control across a wide variety of tasks. However, the optimal configuration of this network of sensors is…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-05 João Damião Almeida , Egidio Falotico , Cecilia Laschi , José Santos-Victor

This paper presents a novel design of a soft tactile finger with omni-directional adaptation using multi-channel optical fibers for rigid-soft interactive grasping. Machine learning methods are used to train a model for real-time prediction…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-02-01 Linhan Yang , Xudong Han , Weijie Guo , Fang Wan , Jia Pan , Chaoyang Song

The recent advancement in technology breaks the barriers to communication between users and computers. The communication between humans and computers includes emotion and gesture recognition. Emotions can be recognized on the face of humans…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-06-08 Heena , Sandeep Ranjan

We present an advance in wearable technology: a mobile-optimized, real-time, ultra-low-power event camera system that enables natural hand gesture control for smart glasses, dramatically improving user experience. While hand gesture…

Hand pointing detection has multiple applications in many fields such as virtual reality and control devices in smart homes. In this paper, we proposed a novel approach to detect pointing vector in 2D space of a room. After background…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-07-21 Ghassem Tofighi , Nasser Ali Afarin , Kamraan Raahemifar , Anastasios N. Venetsanopoulos

Hand Gesture is a popular way to interact or control machines and it has been implemented in many applications. The geometry of hand is such that it is hard to construct in virtual environment and control the joints but the functionality…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-04-18 J. L. Raheja , A. Chaudhary , K Singal

At the present time, hand gestures recognition system could be used as a more expected and useable approach for human computer interaction. Automatic hand gesture recognition system provides us a new tactic for interactive with the virtual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-08-08 Reza Azad , Babak Azad , Nabil Belhaj Khalifa , Shahram Jamali

The computer industry is developing at a fast pace. With this development almost all of the fields under computers have advanced in the past couple of decades. But the same technology is being used for human computer interaction that was…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-12-31 Amiraj Dhawan , Vipul Honrao

High resolution tactile sensors are often bulky and have shape profiles that make them awkward for use in manipulation. This becomes important when using such sensors as fingertips for dexterous multi-fingered hands, where boxy or planar…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-05-20 Branden Romero , Filipe Veiga , Edward Adelson

Recently, there has been a growing interest in analyzing human daily activities from data collected by wearable cameras. Since the hands are involved in a vast set of daily tasks, detecting hands in egocentric images is an important step…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-11 Alejandro Cartas , Mariella Dimiccoli , Petia Radeva

For certain manipulation tasks, object pose estimation from head-mounted cameras may not be sufficiently accurate. This is at least in part due to our inability to perfectly calibrate the coordinate frames of today's high degree of freedom…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-04-12 Patrick Lancaster , Boling Yang , Joshua R. Smith

Hand gestures are a natural means of interaction in Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality (AR/VR) applications. Recently, there has been an increased focus on removing the dependence of accurate hand gesture recognition on complex sensor…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-09 Varun Jain , Shivam Aggarwal , Suril Mehta , Ramya Hebbalaguppe

The dynamic hand gesture recognition task has seen studies on various unimodal and multimodal methods. Previously, researchers have explored depth and 2D-skeleton-based multimodal fusion CRNNs (Convolutional Recurrent Neural Networks) but…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Hasan Mahmud , Mashrur M. Morshed , Md. Kamrul Hasan

We introduce a pipeline to address anatomical inaccuracies in Stable Diffusion generated hand images. The initial step involves constructing a specialized dataset, focusing on hand anomalies, to train our models effectively. A finetuned…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-08 Yiqun Zhang , Zhenyue Qin , Yang Liu , Dylan Campbell

This paper proposes a novel algorithm for multi-focus thermal image fusion. The algorithm is based on local activity analysis and advanced pre-selection of images into fusion process. The algorithm improves the object temperature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-17 Radek Benes , Pavel Dvorak , Marcos Faundez-Zanuy , Virginia Espinosa-Duro , Jiri Mekyska

Two-dimensional pose estimation plays a crucial role in fingerprint recognition by facilitating global alignment and reduce pose-induced variations. However, existing methods are still unsatisfactory when handling with large angle or small…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Xiongjun Guan , Zhiyu Pan , Jianjiang Feng , Jie Zhou

We present in this paper a new approach for hand gesture analysis that allows digit recognition. The analysis is based on extracting a set of features from a hand image and then combining them by using an induction graph. The most important…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2009-06-30 Ahmed Ben Jmaa , Walid Mahdi , Yousra Ben Jemaa , Abdelmajid Ben Hamadou

Despite significant advances in touch and force transduction, tactile sensing is still far from ubiquitous in robotic manipulation. Existing methods for building touch sensors have proven difficult to integrate into robot fingers due to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-04-03 Pedro Piacenza , Keith Behrman , Benedikt Schifferer , Ioannis Kymissis , Matei Ciocarlie

Touchless interaction with medical images is becoming increasingly important in the surgical field, where sterility and continuity of the operational workflow are essential requirements. This work presents a vision-based system for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Yin Lin , Domenico Aquino , Alberto Redaelli , Massimiliano Del Bene , Riccardo Barbieri , Simona Ferrante