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Hand hygiene is among the most effective daily practices for preventing infectious diseases such as influenza, malaria, and skin infections. While professional guidelines emphasize proper handwashing to reduce the risk of viral infections,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-27 Fei Wang , Tingting Zhang , Xilei Wu , Pengcheng Wang , Xin Wang , Han Ding , Jingang Shi , Jinsong Han , Dong Huang

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 and fingertip detection play an indispensable role in hand gesture-based human-machine interaction systems. In this study, we propose a method to discriminate hand components and to locate fingertips in RGB-D images. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-12 Duong Hai Nguyen , Tai Nhu Do , In-Seop Na , Soo-Hyung Kim

The aim of this work was to identify six basic movements of the hand using two systems. Being an interdisciplinary topic, there has been conducted studying in the anatomy of forearm muscles, biosignals, the method of electromyography (EMG)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-20 Christos Sapsanis

Hands are the central means by which humans manipulate their world and being able to reliably extract hand state information from Internet videos of humans engaged in their hands has the potential to pave the way to systems that can learn…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-12 Dandan Shan , Jiaqi Geng , Michelle Shu , David F. Fouhey

In surgical training for medical students, proficiency development relies on expert-led skill assessment, which is costly, time-limited, difficult to scale, and its expertise remains confined to institutions with available specialists.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Le Ma , Thiago Freitas dos Santos , Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann , Katarzyna Wac

This article investigates the challenge of achieving functional tool-use grasping with high-DoF anthropomorphic hands, with the aim of enabling anthropomorphic hands to perform tasks that require human-like manipulation and tool-use.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-04-03 Wei Wei , Peng Wang , Sizhe Wang

Accurately identifying hands in images is a key sub-task for human activity understanding with wearable first-person point-of-view cameras. Traditional hand segmentation approaches rely on a large corpus of manually labeled data to generate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-18 Yubo Zhang , Vishnu Naresh Boddeti , Kris M. Kitani

This paper presents a novel personal identification and verification system using information extracted from the hand shape and texture. The system has two major constituent modules: a fully automatic and robust peg free segmentation and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-24 F. Sohel , A. El-Sallam , M. Bennamoun

Recent years have seen significant progress in human image generation, particularly with the advancements in diffusion models. However, existing diffusion methods encounter challenges when producing consistent hand anatomy and the generated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-01 Anton Pelykh , Ozge Mercanoglu Sincan , Richard Bowden

Manual (hand-related) activity is a significant source of crash risk while driving. Accordingly, analysis of hand position and hand activity occupation is a useful component to understanding a driver's readiness to take control of a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Ross Greer , Lulua Rakla , Anish Gopalan , Mohan Trivedi

Long-term object detection requires the integration of frame-based results over several seconds. For non-deformable objects, long-term detection is often addressed using object detection followed by video tracking. Unfortunately, tracking…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-15 Sravani Teeparthi , Venkatesh Jatla , Marios S. Pattichis , Sylvia Celedon Pattichis , Carlos LopezLeiva

In this work, a real-time hand gesture recognition system-based human-computer interface (HCI) is presented. The system consists of six stages: (1) hand detection, (2) gesture segmentation, (3) use of five pre-trained convolutional neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Abir Sen , Tapas Kumar Mishra , Ratnakar Dash

Surface electromyography (sEMG) is becoming exceeding useful in applications involving analysis of human motion such as in human-machine interface, assistive technology, healthcare and prosthetic development. The proposed work presents a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-05 Karush Suri , Rinki Gupta

Hand gesture detection is a well-explored area in computer vision with applications in various forms of Human-Computer Interactions. In this work, we propose a technique for simultaneous hand gesture classification, handedness detection,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-06 Sichao Li , Sean Banerjee , Natasha Kholgade Banerjee , Soumyabrata Dey

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

Industry 4.0 introduced AI as a transformative solution for modernizing manufacturing processes. Its successor, Industry 5.0, envisions humans as collaborators and experts guiding these AI-driven manufacturing solutions. Developing these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-15 Shivansh Sharma , Mathew Huang , Sanat Nair , Alan Wen , Christina Petlowany , Juston Moore , Selma Wanna , Mitch Pryor

In this paper we introduce a large-scale hand pose dataset, collected using a novel capture method. Existing datasets are either generated synthetically or captured using depth sensors: synthetic datasets exhibit a certain level of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-12 Shanxin Yuan , Qi Ye , Bjorn Stenger , Siddhant Jain , Tae-Kyun Kim

3D hand pose estimation based on RGB images has been studied for a long time. Most of the studies, however, have performed frame-by-frame estimation based on independent static images. In this paper, we attempt to not only consider the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-13 John Yang , Hyung Jin Chang , Seungeui Lee , Nojun Kwak

Hand hygiene is one of the most significant factors in preventing hospital acquired infections (HAI) which often be transmitted by medical staffs in contact with patients in the operating room (OR). Hand hygiene monitoring could be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-23 Minjee Kim , Joonmyeong Choi , Namkug Kim