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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

Teleconference or telepresence based on virtual reality (VR) headmount display (HMD) device is a very interesting and promising application since HMD can provide immersive feelings for users. However, in order to facilitate face-to-face…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-23 Guoxian Song , Jianfei Cai , Tat-Jen Cham , Jianmin Zheng , Juyong Zhang , Henry Fuchs

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 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

Most existing hand gesture recognition (HGR) systems are limited to a predefined set of gestures. However, users and developers often want to recognize new, unseen gestures. This is challenging due to the vast diversity of all plausible…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-21 Esha Uboweja , David Tian , Qifei Wang , Yi-Chun Kuo , Joe Zou , Lu Wang , George Sung , Matthias Grundmann

This paper describes a technique of real time head gesture recognition system. The method includes Gaussian mixture model (GMM) accompanied by optical flow algorithm which provided us the required information regarding head movement. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-08-06 Parimita Saikia , Karen Das

HMMs are widely used in action and gesture recognition due to their implementation simplicity, low computational requirement, scalability and high parallelism. They have worth performance even with a limited training set. All these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-09 Guido Borghi , Roberto Vezzani , Rita Cucchiara

Human gesture recognition has assumed a capital role in industrial applications, such as Human-Machine Interaction. We propose an approach for segmentation and classification of dynamic gestures based on a set of handcrafted features, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-27 André Brás , Miguel Simão , Pedro Neto

Gestures are inherent to human interaction and often complement speech in face-to-face communication, forming a multimodal communication system. An important task in gesture analysis is detecting a gesture's beginning and end. Research on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-24 Esam Ghaleb , Ilya Burenko , Marlou Rasenberg , Wim Pouw , Ivan Toni , Peter Uhrig , Anna Wilson , Judith Holler , Aslı Özyürek , Raquel Fernández

Hand Gesture Recognition (HGR) enables intuitive human-computer interactions in various real-world contexts. However, existing frameworks often struggle to meet the real-time requirements essential for practical HGR applications. This study…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Oluwaleke Yusuf , Maki Habib , Mohamed Moustafa

Facial motion capture in mixed reality headsets enables real-time avatar animation, allowing users to convey non-verbal cues during virtual interactions. However, as facial motion data constitutes a behavioral biometric, its use raises…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Adriano Castro , Simon Hanisch , Matin Fallahi , Thorsten Strufe

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

Mode-switching supports multilevel operations using a limited number of input methods. In Virtual Reality (VR) head-mounted displays (HMD), common approaches for mode-switching use buttons, controllers, and users' hands. However, they are…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-12-16 Rongkai Shi , Nan Zhu , Hai-Ning Liang , Shengdong Zhao

Gestures form an important medium of communication between humans and machines. An overwhelming majority of existing gesture recognition methods are tailored to a scenario where humans and machines are located very close to each other. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-25 Shubhang Bhatnagar , Sharath Gopal , Narendra Ahuja , Liu Ren

Automatic emotion recognition has become a trending research topic in the past decade. While works based on facial expressions or speech abound, recognizing affect from body gestures remains a less explored topic. We present a new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-24 Fatemeh Noroozi , Ciprian Adrian Corneanu , Dorota Kamińska , Tomasz Sapiński , Sergio Escalera , Gholamreza Anbarjafari

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

Facial expressions of emotion are a major channel in our daily communications, and it has been subject of intense research in recent years. To automatically infer facial expressions, convolutional neural network based approaches has become…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-14 Bita Houshmand , Naimul Khan

In this paper, we propose a micro hand gesture recognition system and methods using ultrasonic active sensing. This system uses micro dynamic hand gestures for recognition to achieve human-computer interaction (HCI). The implemented system,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-02 Yu Sang , Laixi Shi , Yimin Liu

In this project, we design a real-time human-computer interaction system based on hand gesture. The whole system consists of three components: hand detection, gesture recognition and human-computer interaction (HCI) based on recognition;…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-25 Pei Xu

Traditionally, video conferencing is a widely adopted solution for telecommunication, but a lack of immersiveness comes inherently due to the 2D nature of facial representation. The integration of Virtual Reality (VR) in a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-03 Surabhi Gupta , Ashwath Shetty , Avinash Sharma