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This paper presents the design flow of an IoT human machine touchless interface. The device uses embedded computing in conjunction with the Leap Motion Controller to provide an accurate and intuitive touchless interface. Its main function…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-14 Hans Johnson , Jafar Saniie

Tactile sensing represents a crucial technique that can enhance the performance of robotic manipulators in various tasks. This work presents a novel bioinspired neuromorphic vision-based tactile sensor that uses an event-based camera to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-18 Omar Faris , Mohammad I. Awad , Murana A. Awad , Yahya Zweiri , Kinda Khalaf

Humans activate muscles to shape the mechanical interaction with their environment, but can they harness this control mechanism to best sense the environment? We investigated how participants adapt their muscle activation to visual and…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-09-11 Xiaoxiao Cheng , Shixian Shen , Ekaterina Ivanova , Gerolamo Carboni , Atsushi Takagi , Etienne Burdet

Self-touch gestures (e.g., nuanced facial touches and subtle finger scratches) provide rich insights into human behaviors, from hygiene practices to health monitoring. However, existing approaches fall short in detecting such micro gestures…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Siyuan Wang , Ke Li , Jingyuan Huang , Jike Wang , Cheng Zhang , Alanson Sample , Dongyao Chen

Humans interact with an object in many different ways by making contact at different locations, creating a highly complex motion space that can be difficult to learn, particularly when synthesizing such human interactions in a controllable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Xiaohan Zhang , Bharat Lal Bhatnagar , Vladimir Guzov , Sebastian Starke , Gerard Pons-Moll

Despite significant recent advances in the field of head pose estimation and facial expression recognition, raising the cognitive level when analysing human activity presents serious challenges to current concepts. Motivated by the need of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-17 Grigorios Kalliatakis , Nikolaos Vidakis , Georgios Triantafyllidis

Hand gesture is one of the most important means of touchless communication between human and machines. There is a great interest for commanding electronic equipment in surgery rooms by hand gesture for reducing the time of surgery and the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-10-24 Ebrahim Nasr-Esfahani , Nader Karimi , S. M. Reza Soroushmehr , M. Hossein Jafari , M. Amin Khorsandi , Shadrokh Samavi , Kayvan Najarian

This paper presents a control interface to translate the residual body motions of individuals living with severe disabilities, into control commands for body-machine interaction. A custom, wireless, wearable multi-sensor network is used to…

Touchless computer interaction has become an important consideration during the COVID-19 pandemic period. Despite progress in machine learning and computer vision that allows for advanced gesture recognition, an integrated collection of…

Human-object interaction is one of the most important visual cues and we propose a novel way to represent human-object interactions for egocentric action anticipation. We propose a novel transformer variant to model interactions by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-12 Debaditya Roy , Ramanathan Rajendiran , Basura Fernando

Human-robot collaboration has benefited users with higher efficiency towards interactive tasks. Nevertheless, most collaborative schemes rely on complicated human-machine interfaces, which might lack the requisite intuitiveness compared…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Haolin Fei , Stefano Tedeschi , Yanpei Huang , Andrew Kennedy , Ziwei Wang

Pointing devices that reside on the keyboard can reduce the overall time needed to perform mixed pointing and typing tasks, since the hand of the user does not have to reach for the pointing device. However, previous implementations of this…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2016-01-18 Julian Ramos , Zhen Li , Johana Rosas , Nikola Banovic , Jennifer Mankoff , Anind Dey

The hand gestures are one of the typical methods used in sign language. It is very difficult for the hearing-impaired people to communicate with the world. This project presents a solution that will not only automatically recognize the hand…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-30 K. Manikandan , Ayush Patidar , Pallav Walia , Aneek Barman Roy

Looking at a person's hands one often can tell what the person is going to do next, how his/her hands are moving and where they will be, because an actor's intentions shape his/her movement kinematics during action execution. Similarly,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-10-05 Cornelia Fermüller , Fang Wang , Yezhou Yang , Konstantinos Zampogiannis , Yi Zhang , Francisco Barranco , Michael Pfeiffer

Smartphone sensors can be extremely useful in providing information on the activities and behaviors of persons. Human activity recognition is increasingly used for games, medical, or surveillance. In this paper, we propose a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-03 David Craveiro , Hugo Silva

Considerable effort has been devoted to the automatic extraction of information about action of the face from image sequences. Within the context of human-computer interaction (HCI) we may distinguish systems that allow expression from…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Michael J. Lyons

In this paper, a computer-vision-assisted simulation method is proposed to address the issue of training dataset acquisition for wireless hand gesture recognition. In the existing literature, in order to classify gestures via the wireless…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-18 Zhenyu Ren , Guoliang Li , Chenqing Ji , Chao Yu , Shuai Wang , Rui Wang

In this project, and through an understanding of neuronal system communication, A novel model serves as an assistive technology for locked-in people suffering from Motor neuronal disease (MND) is proposed. Work was done upon the potential…

Medical Physics · Physics 2018-09-05 Mahmoud Haroun , Mohamed Salah

Modern touchscreens utilize capacitive sensing technology to enable precise and robust multi-touch interaction. However, the broader expressive potential of the human hand remains underutilized, since most existing methods directly filter…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Yuanlei Guo , Xizi Gong , Yizhong Zhang , Xiaoyu Zhang

Humans can steadily and gently grasp unfamiliar objects based on tactile perception. Robots still face challenges in achieving similar performance due to the difficulty of learning accurate grasp-force predictions and force control…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-02-05 Mingxuan Li , Lunwei Zhang , Tiemin Li , Yao Jiang