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Human-machine interaction, particularly in prosthetic and robotic control, has seen progress with gesture recognition via surface electromyographic (sEMG) signals.However, classifying similar gestures that produce nearly identical muscle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Yanlong Chen , Mattia Orlandi , Pierangelo Maria Rapa , Simone Benatti , Luca Benini , Yawei Li

Traditional vision-based hand gesture recognition systems is limited under dark circumstances. In this paper, we build a hand gesture recognition system based on microwave transceiver and deep learning algorithm. A Doppler radar sensor with…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-11-23 Jiajun Zhang , Zhiguo Shi

Sensor embedded glove systems have been reported to require careful, time consuming and precise calibrations on a per user basis in order to obtain consistent usable data. We have developed a low cost, flex sensor based smart glove system…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-01-11 Davis Le , Sairam Tangirala , Tae Song Lee

Despite widespread adoption of smartwatches worldwide, open-benchmarks for wrist-based gesture recognition remain surprisingly limited. In this work, we introduce the first open-access multi-modal benchmark, OpenWatch, for wrist-based…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Pietro Bonazzi , Youssef Ahmed , Daniel Eckert , Andrea Ronco , Junjie Zeng , Dengxin Dai , Michele Magno

With the increasing demand for human-computer interaction (HCI), flexible wearable gloves have emerged as a promising solution in virtual reality, medical rehabilitation, and industrial automation. However, the current technology still has…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Huazhi Dong , Chunpeng Wang , Mingyuan Jiang , Francesco Giorgio-Serchi , Yunjie Yang

Hand Gesture Recognition (HGR) enables intuitive human-computer interactions in various real-world contexts. However, existing frameworks often struggle to meet the real-time requirements essential for practical HGR applications. This study…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Oluwaleke Yusuf , Maki Habib , Mohamed Moustafa

We propose a fully automatic method for learning gestures on big touch devices in a potentially multi-user context. The goal is to learn general models capable of adapting to different gestures, user styles and hardware variations (e.g.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-02-28 Quentin Debard , Christian Wolf , Stéphane Canu , Julien Arné

Grasping with anthropomorphic robotic hands involves much more hand-object interactions compared to parallel-jaw grippers. Modeling hand-object interactions is essential to the study of multi-finger hand dextrous manipulation. This work…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Wei Wei , Daheng Li , Peng Wang , Yiming Li , Wanyi Li , Yongkang Luo , Jun Zhong

Gestures are an integral part of our daily interactions with the environment. Hand gesture recognition (HGR) is the process of interpreting human intent through various input modalities, such as visual data (images and videos) and…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Soroush Baghernezhad , Elaheh Mohammadreza , Vinicius Prado da Fonseca , Ting Zou , Xianta Jiang

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

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

Hand gesture recognition attracts great attention for interaction since it is intuitive and natural to perform. In this paper, we explore a novel method for interaction by using bone-conducted sound generated by finger movements while…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Bing Zhou , Matias Aiskovich , Sinem Guven

Accurate real-time tracking of dexterous hand movements and interactions has numerous applications in human-computer interaction, metaverse, robotics, and tele-health. Capturing realistic hand movements is challenging because of the large…

Data gloves play a crucial role in study of human grasping, and could provide insights into grasp synergies. Grasp synergies lead to identification of underlying patterns to develop control strategies for hand exoskeletons. This paper…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-05-31 Subhash Pratap , Yoshiyuki Hatta , Kazuaki Ito , Shyamanta M. Hazarika

Hand gestures play a significant role in human interactions where non-verbal intentions, thoughts and commands are conveyed. In Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), hand gestures offer a similar and efficient medium for conveying clear and rapid…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-11 Eran Bamani , Eden Nissinman , Inbar Meir , Lisa Koenigsberg , Avishai Sintov

Due to the universal non-verbal natural communication approach that allows for effective communication between humans, gesture recognition technology has been steadily developing over the previous few decades. Many different strategies have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-07 Finlay McKinnon , David Ada Adama , Pedro Machado , Isibor Kennedy Ihianle

Hand gesture recognition is an important aspect of human-computer interaction. It forms the basis of sign language for the visually impaired people. This work proposes a novel hand gesture recognizing system for the differently-abled…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Subham Sharma , Sharmila Subudhi

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 present CaptAinGlove, a textile-based, low-power (1.15Watts), privacy-conscious, real-time on-the-edge (RTE) glove-based solution with a tiny memory footprint (2MB), designed to recognize hand gestures used for drone control. We employ…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Hymalai Bello , Sungho Suh , Daniel Geißler , Lala Ray , Bo Zhou , Paul Lukowicz

Transformer model have achieved state-of-the-art results in many applications like NLP, classification, etc. But their exploration in gesture recognition task is still limited. So, we propose a novel GestFormer architecture for dynamic hand…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Mallika Garg , Debashis Ghosh , Pyari Mohan Pradhan