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Force myography has recently gained increasing attention for hand gesture recognition tasks. However, there is a lack of publicly available benchmark data, with most existing studies collecting their own data often with custom hardware and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-30 Thomas Buhl Andersen , Rógvi Eliasen , Mikkel Jarlund , Bin Yang

We explore hand-gesture recognition through the use of passive body-worn reflective tags. A data processing pipeline is proposed to address the issue of missing data. Specifically, missing information is recovered through linear and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-01 Sahar Golipoor , Richard T. Brophy , Ying Liu , Reza Ghazalian , Stephan Sigg

Due to the mass advancement in ubiquitous technologies nowadays, new pervasive methods have come into the practice to provide new innovative features and stimulate the research on new human-computer interactions. This paper presents a hand…

Hand gesture understanding is essential for several applications in human-computer interaction, including automatic clinical assessment of hand dexterity. While deep learning has advanced static gesture recognition, dynamic gesture…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Gianluca Amprimo , Alberto Ancilotto , Alessandro Savino , Fabio Quazzolo , Claudia Ferraris , Gabriella Olmo , Elisabetta Farella , Stefano Di Carlo

Recognizing surgical gestures in real-time is a stepping stone towards automated activity recognition, skill assessment, intra-operative assistance, and eventually surgical automation. The current robotic surgical systems provide us with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Jumanh Atoum , Garrison L. H. Johnston , Nabil Simaan , Jie Ying Wu

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

Tactile and kinesthetic perceptions are crucial for human dexterous manipulation, enabling reliable grasping of objects via proprioceptive sensorimotor integration. For robotic hands, even though acquiring such tactile and kinesthetic…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Ce Guo , Xieyuanli Chen , Zhiwen Zeng , Zirui Guo , Yihong Li , Haoran Xiao , Dewen Hu , Huimin Lu

Multimodal tactile sensing could potentially enable robots to improve their performance at manipulation tasks by rapidly discriminating between task-relevant objects. Data-driven approaches to this tactile perception problem show promise,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2015-11-13 Joshua Wade , Tapomayukh Bhattacharjee , Charles C. Kemp

To achieve a successful grasp, gripper attributes such as its geometry and kinematics play a role as important as the object geometry. The majority of previous work has focused on developing grasp methods that generalize over novel object…

Gesture recognition and hand motion tracking are important tasks in advanced gesture based interaction systems. In this paper, we propose to apply a sliding windows filtering approach to sample the incoming streams of data from data gloves…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-02 Sara Masoud , Bijoy Chowdhury , Young-Jun Son , Chieri Kubota , Russell Tronstad

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

Recently, haptic gloves have been extensively explored for various practical applications, such as manipulation learning. Previous glove devices have different force-driven systems, such as shape memory alloys, servo motors and pneumatic…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-07-28 Mikiya Kusunoki , Shogo Yoshida , Haoran Xie

This paper proposes an interactive system for mobile devices controlled by hand gestures aimed at helping people with visual impairments. This system allows the user to interact with the device by making simple static and dynamic hand…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-27 Samer Alashhab , Antonio Javier Gallego , Miguel Ángel Lozano

Haptic devices have been employed to immerse users in VR environments. In particular, hand and finger haptic devices have been deeply developed. However, this type of device occlude the hand detection by some tracking systems, or in other…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2019-11-19 Juan Heredia , Jonathan Tirado , Vladislav Panov , Miguel Altamirano , Youcef Kamal-Toumi , Dzmitry Tsetserukou

EMG-based gesture recognition shows promise for human-machine interaction. Systems are often afflicted by signal and electrode variability which degrades performance over time. We present an end-to-end system combating this variability…

Most existing hand gesture recognition (HGR) systems are limited to a predefined set of gestures. However, users and developers often want to recognize new, unseen gestures. This is challenging due to the vast diversity of all plausible…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-21 Esha Uboweja , David Tian , Qifei Wang , Yi-Chun Kuo , Joe Zou , Lu Wang , George Sung , Matthias Grundmann

Hand gesture recognition has long been a hot topic in human computer interaction. Traditional camera-based hand gesture recognition systems cannot work properly under dark circumstances. In this paper, a Doppler Radar based hand gesture…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-23 Jiajun Zhang , Jinkun Tao , Jiangtao Huangfu , Zhiguo Shi

As robots become increasingly prevalent in both homes and industrial settings, the demand for intuitive and efficient human-machine interaction continues to rise. Gesture recognition offers an intuitive control method that does not require…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Yuqing Song , Cesare Tonola , Stefano Savazzi , Sanaz Kianoush , Nicola Pedrocchi , Stephan Sigg

Motivated by the growing interest in enhancing intuitive physical Human-Machine Interaction (HRI/HVI), this study aims to propose a robust tactile hand gesture recognition system. We performed a comprehensive evaluation of different hand…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Chiara Fumelli , Anirvan Dutta , Mohsen Kaboli

Understanding hand-object interaction (HOI) is fundamental to computer vision, robotics, and AR/VR. However, conventional hand videos often lack essential physical information such as contact forces and motion signals, and are prone to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Xinyu Zhang , Ziyi Kou , Chuan Qin , Mia Huang , Ergys Ristani , Ankit Kumar , Lele Chen , Kun He , Abdeslam Boularias , Li Guan