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Markerless tracking of hands and fingers is a promising enabler for human-computer interaction. However, adoption has been limited because of tracking inaccuracies, incomplete coverage of motions, low framerate, complex camera setups, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-02-15 Srinath Sridhar , Franziska Mueller , Antti Oulasvirta , Christian Theobalt

Hand segmentation for hand-object interaction is a necessary preprocessing step in many applications such as augmented reality, medical application, and human-robot interaction. However, typical methods are based on color information which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-11 Byeongkeun Kang , Kar-Han Tan , Nan Jiang , Hung-Shuo Tai , Daniel Tretter , Truong Q. Nguyen

Fingerprints are widely recognized as one of the most unique and reliable characteristics of human identity. Most modern fingerprint authentication systems rely on contact-based fingerprints, which require the use of fingerprint scanners or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-28 M. G. Sarwar Murshed , Syed Konain Abbas , Sandip Purnapatra , Daqing Hou , Faraz Hussain

Tasks related to human hands have long been part of the computer vision community. Hands being the primary actuators for humans, convey a lot about activities and intents, in addition to being an alternative form of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-01 Akshay Rangesh , Mohan M. Trivedi

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 present a simple but effective method for automatic latent fingerprint segmentation, called SegFinNet. SegFinNet takes a latent image as an input and outputs a binary mask highlighting the friction ridge pattern. Our algorithm combines…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-05 Dinh-Luan Nguyen , Kai Cao , Anil K. Jain

In robot-assisted laparoscopic radical prostatectomy (RALP), the location of the instrument tip is important to register the ultrasound frame with the laparoscopic camera frame. A long-standing limitation is that the instrument tip position…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Zijian Wu , Shuojue Yang , Yueming Jin , Septimiu E Salcudean

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

A large number of works in egocentric vision have concentrated on action and object recognition. Detection and segmentation of hands in first-person videos, however, has less been explored. For many applications in this domain, it is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-30 Aisha Urooj Khan , Ali Borji

The purpose of gesture recognition is to recognize meaningful movements of human bodies, and gesture recognition is an important issue in computer vision. In this paper, we present a multimodal gesture recognition method based on 3D densely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-17 Yi Zhang , Chong Wang , Ye Zheng , Jieyu Zhao , Yuqi Li , Xijiong Xie

We propose a real-time DNN-based technique to segment hand and object of interacting motions from depth inputs. Our model is called DenseAttentionSeg, which contains a dense attention mechanism to fuse information in different scales and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Zihao Bo , Hao Zhang , Junhai Yong , Feng Xu

Hand pose represents key information for action recognition in the egocentric perspective, where the user is interacting with objects. We propose to improve egocentric 3D hand pose estimation based on RGB frames only by using pseudo-depth…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Wiktor Mucha , Michael Wray , Martin Kampel

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

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

Interactive segmentation entails a human marking an image to guide how a model either creates or edits a segmentation. Our work addresses limitations of existing methods: they either only support one gesture type for marking an image (e.g.,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-07 Josh Myers-Dean , Yifei Fan , Brian Price , Wilson Chan , Danna Gurari

In the modern context, hand gesture recognition has emerged as a focal point. This is due to its wide range of applications, which include comprehending sign language, factories, hands-free devices, and guiding robots. Many researchers have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-16 Md Abdur Rahim , Abu Saleh Musa Miah , Hemel Sharker Akash , Jungpil Shin , Md. Imran Hossain , Md. Najmul Hossain

Tracking and reconstructing the 3D pose and geometry of two hands in interaction is a challenging problem that has a high relevance for several human-computer interaction applications, including AR/VR, robotics, or sign language…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-23 Jiayi Wang , Franziska Mueller , Florian Bernard , Suzanne Sorli , Oleksandr Sotnychenko , Neng Qian , Miguel A. Otaduy , Dan Casas , Christian Theobalt

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

In this thesis a new approach for touch detection on optical multi-touch devices is proposed that exploits the fact that the camera images reveal not only the actual touch points but also objects above the screen such as the hand or arm of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-01-09 Philipp Ewerling

Robotic grasping, the ability of robots to reliably secure and manipulate objects of varying shapes, sizes and orientations, is a complex task that requires precise perception and control. Deep neural networks have shown remarkable success…