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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

Direct and natural interaction is essential for intuitive human-robot collaboration, eliminating the need for additional devices such as joysticks, tablets, or wearable sensors. In this paper, we present a lightweight deep learning-based…

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

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

Human Action Recognition is an important task of Human Robot Interaction as cooperation between robots and humans requires that artificial agents recognise complex cues from the environment. A promising approach is using trained classifiers…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-26 Frederico Belmonte Klein , Angelo Cangelosi

Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) has become increasingly important as robots are being integrated into various aspects of daily life. One key aspect of HRI is gesture recognition, which allows robots to interpret and respond to human gestures…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-01-10 Sandeep Reddy Sabbella , Sara Kaszuba , Francesco Leotta , Pascal Serrarens , Daniele Nardi

Safe human-to-robot handovers of unknown objects require accurate estimation of hand poses and object properties, such as shape, trajectory, and weight. Accurately estimating these properties requires the use of scanned 3D object models or…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-07-06 Yik Lung Pang , Alessio Xompero , Changjae Oh , Andrea Cavallaro

Gesture recognition opens up new ways for humans to intuitively interact with machines. Especially for service robots, gestures can be a valuable addition to the means of communication to, for example, draw the robot's attention to someone…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-01 Pascal Schneider , Raphael Memmesheimer , Ivanna Kramer , Dietrich Paulus

Hand gestures have evolved into a natural and intuitive means of engaging with technology. The objective of this research is to develop a robust system that can accurately recognize and classify hand gestures representing numbers. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Sangeetha K , Balaji VS , Kamalesh P , Anirudh Ganapathy PS

Effective human-robot collaboration depends on task-oriented handovers, where robots present objects in ways that support the partners intended use. However, many existing approaches neglect the humans post-handover action, relying on…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Andreea Tulbure , Rene Zurbruegg , Timm Grigat , Marco Hutter

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

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 comprehensive pipeline for recognizing objects targeted by human pointing gestures using RGB images. As human-robot interaction moves toward more intuitive interfaces, the ability to identify targets of non-verbal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Lukáš Hajdúch , Viktor Kocur

Object handover is a basic, but essential capability for robots interacting with humans in many applications, e.g., caring for the elderly and assisting workers in manufacturing workshops. It appears deceptively simple, as humans perform…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-03-22 Andras Kupcsik , David Hsu , Wee Sun Lee

This paper presents GenH2R, a framework for learning generalizable vision-based human-to-robot (H2R) handover skills. The goal is to equip robots with the ability to reliably receive objects with unseen geometry handed over by humans in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Zifan Wang , Junyu Chen , Ziqing Chen , Pengwei Xie , Rui Chen , Li Yi

Humans excel in grasping and manipulating objects because of their life-long experience and knowledge about the 3D shape and weight distribution of objects. However, the lack of such intuition in robots makes robotic grasping an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-05 Ghazal Ghazaei , Iro Laina , Christian Rupprecht , Federico Tombari , Nassir Navab , Kianoush Nazarpour

Pointing gestures are a common interaction method used in Human-Robot Collaboration for various tasks, ranging from selecting targets to guiding industrial processes. This study introduces a method for localizing pointed targets within a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-30 Noora Sassali , Roel Pieters

The focus of this paper is dynamic gesture recognition in the context of the interaction between humans and machines. We propose a model consisting of two sub-networks, a transformer and an ordered-neuron long-short-term-memory (ON-LSTM)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-03 Kenneth Lai , Svetlana Yanushkevich

Online recognition of gestures is critical for intuitive human-robot interaction (HRI) and further push collaborative robotics into the market, making robots accessible to more people. The problem is that it is difficult to achieve accurate…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-04-17 M. A. Simão , O. Gibaru , P. Neto

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