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Automated hand gesture recognition has been a focus of the AI community for decades. Traditionally, work in this domain revolved largely around scenarios assuming the availability of the flow of images of the user hands. This has partly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-15 Ying Liu , Liucheng Guo , Valeri A. Makarov , Yuxiang Huang , Alexander Gorban , Evgeny Mirkes , Ivan Y. Tyukin

In this paper, we present an efficient method to incrementally learn to classify static hand gestures. This method allows users to teach a robot to recognize new symbols in an incremental manner. Contrary to other works which use special…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-04-14 Xavier Cucurull , Anaís Garrell

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

We explore hand-gesture recognition through the use of passive body-worn reflective tags. A data processing pipeline is proposed to address the issue of missing data. Specifically, missing information is recovered through linear and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-01 Sahar Golipoor , Richard T. Brophy , Ying Liu , Reza Ghazalian , Stephan Sigg

Advances in biosignal signal processing and machine learning, in particular Deep Neural Networks (DNNs), have paved the way for the development of innovative Human-Machine Interfaces for decoding the human intent and controlling artificial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Elahe Rahimian , Soheil Zabihi , Amir Asif , Dario Farina , S. Farokh Atashzar , Arash Mohammadi

This paper proposes a novel approach to recognizing dynamic hand gestures facilitating seamless interaction between humans and robots. Here, each robot manipulator task is assigned a specific gesture. There may be several such tasks, hence,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Dharmendra Sharma , Peeyush Thakur , Sandeep Gupta , Narendra Kumar Dhar , Laxmidhar Behera

In this work, an extensive review of literature in the field of gesture recognition carried out along with the implementation of a simple classification system for hand hygiene stages based on deep learning solutions. A subset of robust…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-19 Rashmi Bakshi

Bimanual gestures are of the utmost importance for the study of motor coordination in humans and in everyday activities. A reliable detection of bimanual gestures in unconstrained environments is fundamental for their clinical study and to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-11 Divya Shah , Ernesto Denicia , Tiago Pimentel , Barbara Bruno , Fulvio Mastrogiovanni

We present an on-device real-time hand gesture recognition (HGR) system, which detects a set of predefined static gestures from a single RGB camera. The system consists of two parts: a hand skeleton tracker and a gesture classifier. We use…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-02 George Sung , Kanstantsin Sokal , Esha Uboweja , Valentin Bazarevsky , Jonathan Baccash , Eduard Gabriel Bazavan , Chuo-Ling Chang , Matthias Grundmann

Hand gesture detection is a well-explored area in computer vision with applications in various forms of Human-Computer Interactions. In this work, we propose a technique for simultaneous hand gesture classification, handedness detection,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-06 Sichao Li , Sean Banerjee , Natasha Kholgade Banerjee , Soumyabrata Dey

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

In human computer interaction, real-time detection and classification of dynamic hand gestures is challenging as: 1) the system must run in a real-time video stream and there is no noticeable lag in response after performing a gesture; 2)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Yinghao Qin , Tijana Timotijevic

EMG-based gesture recognition shows promise for human-machine interaction. Systems are often afflicted by signal and electrode variability which degrades performance over time. We present an end-to-end system combating this variability…

Hand-face interactions play a key role in many everyday tasks, providing insights into user habits, behaviors, intentions, and expressions. However, existing wearable sensing systems often struggle to track these interactions in daily…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-11-14 Saif Mahmud , Kian Mahmoodi , Chi-Jung Lee , Francois Guimbretiere , Cheng Zhang

This paper introduces a lightweight gesture recognition system based on 60 GHz frequency modulated continuous wave (FMCW) radar. We show that gestures can be characterized efficiently by a set of five features, and propose a slim radar…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-29 Maximilian Strobel , Stephan Schoenfeldt , Jonas Daugalas

In this paper, it is introduced a hand gesture recognition system to recognize the characters in the real time. The system consists of three modules: real time hand tracking, training gesture and gesture recognition using Convolutional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-11 Arpita Vats

We design a gesture-recognition pipeline for networks of distributed, resource constrained devices utilising Einsum Networks. Einsum Networks are probabilistic circuits that feature a tractable inference, explainability, and energy…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-26 Sahar Golipoor , Lingyun Yao , Martin Andraud , Stephan Sigg

Classification and regression employing a simple Deep Neural Network (DNN) are investigated to perform touch localization on a tactile surface using ultrasonic guided waves. A robotic finger first simulates the touch action and captures the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-29 Sahar Bahrami , Jérémy Moriot , Patrice Masson , François Grondin

In this paper, we propose a new hand gesture recognition method based on skeletal data by learning SPD matrices with neural networks. We model the hand skeleton as a graph and introduce a neural network for SPD matrix learning, taking as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-21 Xuan Nguyen , Luc Brun , Olivier Lezoray , Sébastien Bougleux

This paper proposes a method of gesture recognition with a focus on important actions for distinguishing similar gestures. The method generates a partial action sequence by using optical flow images, expresses the sequence in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2009-12-10 Kazumoto Tanaka