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Hand washing is a crucial part of personal hygiene. Hand washing detection is a relevant topic for wearable sensing with applications in the medical and professional fields. Hand washing detection can be used to aid workers in complying…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Robin Burchard , Kristof Van Laerhoven

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

Most current anthropomorphic robotic hands can realize part of the human hand functions, particularly for object grasping. However, due to the complexity of the human hand, few current designs target at daily object manipulations, even for…

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

This large-scale study, consisting of 24.5 million hand hygiene opportunities spanning 19 distinct facilities in 10 different states, uses linear predictive models to expose factors that may affect hand hygiene compliance. We examine the…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2017-07-11 Michael T. Lash , Jason Slater , Philip M. Polgreen , Alberto M. Segre

Healthcare-Associated Infections present a major threat to patient safety globally. According to studies, more than 50% of HAI could be prevented by proper hand hygiene. Effectiveness of hand hygiene is regularly evaluated with the…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-07-13 Száva Bánsághi , Viola Sári , Péter Szerémy , Ákos Lehotsky , Bence Takács , Brigitta K. Tóth , Tamás Haidegger

We introduce BeaMsteerX (BMX), a novel mmWave hand hygiene gesture recognition technique that improves accuracy in longer ranges (1.5m). BMX steers a mmWave beam towards multiple directions around the subject, generating multiple views of…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-03-24 Isura Nirmal , Wen Hu , Mahbub Hassan , Elias Aboutanios , Abdelwahed Khamis

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

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

Hand gesture recognition has become an important research area, driven by the growing demand for human-computer interaction in fields such as sign language recognition, virtual and augmented reality, and robotics. Despite the rapid growth…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Manousos Linardakis , Iraklis Varlamis , Georgios Th. Papadopoulos

Purpose: This research aims to facilitate the use of state-of-the-art computer vision algorithms for the automated training of surgeons and the analysis of surgical footage. By estimating 2D hand poses, we model the movement of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-03 Eddie Bkheet , Anne-Lise D'Angelo , Adam Goldbraikh , Shlomi Laufer

Automated hand gesture recognition has been a focus of the AI community for decades. Traditionally, work in this domain revolved largely around scenarios assuming the availability of the flow of images of the user hands. This has partly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-15 Ying Liu , Liucheng Guo , Valeri A. Makarov , Yuxiang Huang , Alexander Gorban , Evgeny Mirkes , Ivan Y. Tyukin

The use of hand gestures provides a natural alternative to cumbersome interface devices for Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) systems. As the technology advances and communication between humans and machines becomes more complex, HCI systems…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-02 Okan Köpüklü , Yao Rong , Gerhard Rigoll

We introduce an efficient approach for learning dexterous grasping with minimal data, advancing robotic manipulation capabilities across different robotic hands. Unlike traditional methods that require millions of grasp labels for each…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Hao-Shu Fang , Hengxu Yan , Zhenyu Tang , Hongjie Fang , Chenxi Wang , Cewu Lu

This paper proposes the second version of the widespread Hand Gesture Recognition dataset HaGRID -- HaGRIDv2. We cover 15 new gestures with conversation and control functions, including two-handed ones. Building on the foundational concepts…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Anton Nuzhdin , Alexander Nagaev , Alexander Sautin , Alexander Kapitanov , Karina Kvanchiani

This paper considers the problem of recognizing eating gestures by tracking wrist motion. Eating gestures can have large variability in motion depending on the subject, utensil, and type of food or beverage being consumed. Previous works…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-12 Yiru Shen , Eric Muth , Adam Hoover

This paper presents a new method for detecting and classifying a predefined set of hand gestures using a single transmitter and a single receiver utilizing a linearly frequency modulated ultrasonic signal. Gestures are identified based on…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2017-10-25 Mohammed H. AlSharif , Mohamed Saad , Tareq Y. Al-Naffouri

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

Articulated hand pose tracking is an under-explored problem that carries the potential for use in an extensive number of applications, especially in the medical domain. With a robust and accurate tracking system on surgical videos, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-10 Nathan Louis , Luowei Zhou , Steven J. Yule , Roger D. Dias , Milisa Manojlovich , Francis D. Pagani , Donald S. Likosky , Jason J. Corso

Object handover is a common human collaboration behavior that attracts attention from researchers in Robotics and Cognitive Science. Though visual perception plays an important role in the object handover task, the whole handover process…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-28 Ruolin Ye , Wenqiang Xu , Zhendong Xue , Tutian Tang , Yanfeng Wang , Cewu Lu