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This paper proposes a novel method for understanding daily hand-object manipulation by developing computer vision-based techniques. Specifically, we focus on recognizing hand grasp types, object attributes and manipulation actions within an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-24 Minjie Cai , Kris Kitani , Yoichi Sato

Accurate estimation of the relative pose between an object and a robot hand is critical for many manipulation tasks. However, most of the existing object-in-hand pose datasets use two-finger grippers and also assume that the object remains…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Yuyang Tu , Junnan Jiang , Shuang Li , Norman Hendrich , Miao Li , Jianwei Zhang

Precision grasps with multi-fingered hands are important for precise placement and in-hand manipulation tasks. Searching precision grasps on the object represented by point cloud, is challenging due to the complex object shape,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-04-17 Yongxiang Fan , Xinghao Zhu , Masayoshi Tomizuka

Prehensile autonomous manipulation, such as peg insertion, tool use, or assembly, require precise in-hand understanding of the object pose and the extrinsic contacts made during interactions. Providing accurate estimation of pose and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Mark Van der Merwe , Kei Ota , Dmitry Berenson , Nima Fazeli , Devesh K. Jha

Tracking the pose of an object while it is being held and manipulated by a robot hand is difficult for vision-based methods due to significant occlusions. Prior works have explored using contact feedback and particle filters to localize…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-11-09 Jacky Liang , Ankur Handa , Karl Van Wyk , Viktor Makoviychuk , Oliver Kroemer , Dieter Fox

Dexterous robotic manipulation requires more than geometrically valid grasps: it demands physically grounded contact strategies that account for the spatially non-uniform mechanical properties of the object. However, existing grasp planners…

Modeling hand-object manipulations is essential for understanding how humans interact with their environment. While of practical importance, estimating the pose of hands and objects during interactions is challenging due to the large mutual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-29 Yana Hasson , Bugra Tekin , Federica Bogo , Ivan Laptev , Marc Pollefeys , Cordelia Schmid

State-of-the-art object pose estimation methods are prone to generating geometrically infeasible pose hypotheses. This problem is prevalent in dexterous manipulation, where estimated poses often intersect with the robotic hand or are not…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Anil Zeybek , Rhys Newbury , Snehal Dikhale , Nawid Jamali , Soshi Iba , Akansel Cosgun

We propose a novel hand-object contact detection system based on grasp quality metrics extracted from object and hand poses, and evaluated its performance using the DexYCB dataset. Our evaluation demonstrated the system's high accuracy…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-01-31 Thanh Vinh Nguyen , Akansel Cosgun

Hands are dexterous and highly versatile manipulators that are central to how humans interact with objects and their environment. Consequently, modeling realistic hand-object interactions, including the subtle motion of individual fingers,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Omid Taheri , Yi Zhou , Dimitrios Tzionas , Yang Zhou , Duygu Ceylan , Soren Pirk , Michael J. Black

All hand-object interaction is controlled by forces that the two bodies exert on each other, but little work has been done in modeling these underlying forces when doing pose and contact estimation from RGB/RGB-D data. Given the pose of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-26 Akarsh Kumar , Aditya R. Vaidya , Alexander G. Huth

Grasping objects under uncertainty remains an open problem in robotics research. This uncertainty is often due to noisy or partial observations of the object pose or shape. To enable a robot to react appropriately to unforeseen effects, it…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-09-20 Hamza Merzic , Miroslav Bogdanovic , Daniel Kappler , Ludovic Righetti , Jeannette Bohg

We introduce the dynamic grasp synthesis task: given an object with a known 6D pose and a grasp reference, our goal is to generate motions that move the object to a target 6D pose. This is challenging, because it requires reasoning about…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-18 Sammy Christen , Muhammed Kocabas , Emre Aksan , Jemin Hwangbo , Jie Song , Otmar Hilliges

A successful grasp requires careful balancing of the contact forces. Deducing whether a particular grasp will be successful from indirect measurements, such as vision, is therefore quite challenging, and direct sensing of contacts through…

Real time applications such as robotic require real time actions based on the immediate available data. Machine learning and artificial intelligence rely on high volume of training informative data set to propose a comprehensive and useful…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-08-24 Masoud Baghbahari , Aman Behal

Generating realistic hand motion sequences in interaction with objects has gained increasing attention with the growing interest in digital humans. Prior work has illustrated the effectiveness of employing occupancy-based or distance-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Keyang Zhou , Bharat Lal Bhatnagar , Jan Eric Lenssen , Gerard Pons-moll

The intricate kinematics of the human hand enable simultaneous grasping and manipulation of multiple objects, essential for tasks such as object transfer and in-hand manipulation. Despite its significance, the domain of robotic multi-object…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-15 Yuyang Li , Bo Liu , Yiran Geng , Puhao Li , Yaodong Yang , Yixin Zhu , Tengyu Liu , Siyuan Huang

Humans excel at grasping objects and manipulating them. Capturing human grasps is important for understanding grasping behavior and reconstructing it realistically in Virtual Reality (VR). However, grasp capture - capturing the pose of a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-18 Samarth Brahmbhatt , Charles C. Kemp , James Hays

We propose a novel framework for 3D hand shape reconstruction and hand-object grasp optimization from a single RGB image. The representation of hand-object contact regions is critical for accurate reconstructions. Instead of approximating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Ziwei Yu , Linlin Yang , You Xie , Ping Chen , Angela Yao

One goal of dexterous robotic grasping is to allow robots to handle objects with the same level of flexibility and adaptability as humans. However, it remains a challenging task to generate an optimal grasping strategy for dexterous hands,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-05-17 Fuqiang Zhao , Dzmitry Tsetserukou , Qian Liu