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Recognizing people by faces and other biometrics has been extensively studied in computer vision. But these techniques do not work for identifying the wearer of an egocentric (first-person) camera because that person rarely (if ever)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-19 Satoshi Tsutsui , Yanwei Fu , David Crandall

Augmented reality (AR) offers immersive interaction but remains inaccessible for users with motor impairments or limited dexterity due to reliance on precise input methods. This study proposes a gesture-based interaction system for AR…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Yikan Wang

We tackle the problem of estimating the 3D pose of an individual's upper limbs (arms+hands) from a chest mounted depth-camera. Importantly, we consider pose estimation during everyday interactions with objects. Past work shows that strong…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-12-02 Gregory Rogez , James S. Supancic , Deva Ramanan

In this paper, we address the problem of estimating the hand pose from the egocentric view when the hand is interacting with objects. Specifically, we propose a method to label a dataset Ego-Siam which contains the egocentric images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-01 Yao Lu , Walterio W. Mayol-Cuevas

Gesture recognition is mainly apprehensive on analyzing the functionality of human wits. The main goal of gesture recognition is to create a system which can recognize specific human gestures and use them to convey information or for device…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2010-12-02 Harshith C , Karthik R. Shastry , Manoj Ravindran , M. V. V. N. S. Srikanth , Naveen Lakshmikhanth

Long context egocentric video understanding has recently attracted significant research attention, with augmented reality (AR) highlighted as one of its most important application domains. Nevertheless, the task remains highly challenging…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Qiance Tang , Ziqi Wang , Jieyu Lin , Ziyun Li , Barbara De Salvo , Sai Qian Zhang

With the emergence of the Metaverse and focus on wearable devices in the recent years gesture based human-computer interaction has gained significance. To enable gesture recognition for VR/AR headsets and glasses several datasets focusing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Vivek Parmar , Dwijay Bane , Syed Shakib Sarwar , Kleber Stangherlin , Barbara De Salvo , Manan Suri

Hand segmentation and detection in truly unconstrained RGB-based settings is important for many applications. However, existing datasets are far from sufficient in terms of size and variety due to the infeasibility of manual annotation of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-24 Fanqing Lin , Brian Price , Tony Martinez

Forecasting future 3D hand pose sequences from egocentric video is essential for understanding human intention and enabling embodied applications such as AR/VR assistance and human-robot interaction. However, this task remains a highly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Jaeyoung Choi , Hyeondong Kim , Yujin Kim , Daehee Park

Action recognition is essential for egocentric video understanding, allowing automatic and continuous monitoring of Activities of Daily Living (ADLs) without user effort. Existing literature focuses on 3D hand pose input, which requires…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-25 Wiktor Mucha , Martin Kampel

With the rapid development of artificial intelligence technologies and wearable devices, egocentric vision understanding has emerged as a new and challenging research direction, gradually attracting widespread attention from both academia…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Xiang Li , Heqian Qiu , Lanxiao Wang , Hanwen Zhang , Chenghao Qi , Linfeng Han , Huiyu Xiong , Hongliang Li

Head-mounted device-based human-computer interaction often requires egocentric recognition of hand gestures and fingertips detection. In this paper, a unified approach of egocentric hand gesture recognition and fingertip detection is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-23 Mohammad Mahmudul Alam , Mohammad Tariqul Islam , S. M. Mahbubur Rahman

We address the challenging task of detecting the precise moment when hands make contact with objects in egocentric videos. This frame-level detection is crucial for augmented reality, human-computer interaction, assistive technologies, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Huy Anh Nguyen , Feras Dayoub , Minh Hoai

We present EgoRenderer, a system for rendering full-body neural avatars of a person captured by a wearable, egocentric fisheye camera that is mounted on a cap or a VR headset. Our system renders photorealistic novel views of the actor and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-25 Tao Hu , Kripasindhu Sarkar , Lingjie Liu , Matthias Zwicker , Christian Theobalt

Immersive VR telepresence ideally means being able to interact and communicate with digital avatars that are indistinguishable from and precisely reflect the behaviour of their real counterparts. The core technical challenge is two fold:…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Jianchun Chen , Jian Wang , Yinda Zhang , Rohit Pandey , Thabo Beeler , Marc Habermann , Christian Theobalt

Egocentric vision is essential for both human and machine visual understanding, particularly in capturing the detailed hand-object interactions needed for manipulation tasks. Translating third-person views into first-person views…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Junho Park , Andrew Sangwoo Ye , Taein Kwon

Mixed Reality (MR) headsets promise a future of immersive telepresence where virtual humans blend indistinguishably into real or virtual surroundings. Achieving this vision requires a method for capturing a user's motion, estimating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Jianchun Chen , Yinda Zhang , Rohit Pandey , Thabo Beeler , Marc Habermann , Christian Theobalt

Hand gestures form an intuitive means of interaction in Mixed Reality (MR) applications. However, accurate gesture recognition can be achieved only through state-of-the-art deep learning models or with the use of expensive sensors. Despite…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-23 Varun Jain , Gaurav Garg , Ramakrishna Perla , Ramya Hebbalaguppe

To enable a safe and effective human-robot cooperation, it is crucial to develop models for the identification of human activities. Egocentric vision seems to be a viable solution to solve this problem, and therefore many works provide deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-13 Gabriele Goletto , Mirco Planamente , Barbara Caputo , Giuseppe Averta

Static and dynamic hand movements are basic way for human-machine interactions. To recognize and classify these movements, first these movements are captured by the cameras mounted on the augmented reality (AR) or virtual reality (VR)…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-04-03 Nizamuddin Maitlo , Yanbo Wang , Chao Ping Chen , Lantian Mi , Wenbo Zhang