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This study demonstrates how facial biometrics, acquired using multi-spectral sensors, such as RGB, depth, and infrared, assist the data accumulation in the process of authorizing users of automated and semi-automated access systems. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-23 K. Lai , S. Samoil , S. N. Yanushkevich

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

At the present time, hand gestures recognition system could be used as a more expected and useable approach for human computer interaction. Automatic hand gesture recognition system provides us a new tactic for interactive with the virtual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-08-08 Reza Azad , Babak Azad , Nabil Belhaj Khalifa , Shahram Jamali

In many practical applications of long-range imaging such as biometrics and surveillance, thermal imagining modalities are often used to capture images in low-light and nighttime conditions. However, such imaging systems often suffer from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-08 Kangfu Mei , Yiqun Mei , Vishal M. Patel

In this paper we summarize several applications based on thermal imaging. We emphasize the importance of emissivity adjustment for a proper temperature measurement. A new set of face images acquired at different emissivity values with steps…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-31 Marcos Faundez-Zanuy , Xavier Font Aragones , Jiri Mekyska

Semantic segmentation is a challenging task since it requires excessively more low-level spatial information of the image compared to other computer vision problems. The accuracy of pixel-level classification can be affected by many…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-27 Zülfiye Kütük , Görkem Algan

In this paper, we demonstrate the ability to recognize hand gestures in a non-contact, wireless fashion using only incoherent light signals reflected from a human subject. Fundamentally distinguished from radar, lidar and camera-based…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-17 Li Yu , Hisham Abuella , Md Zobaer Islam , John F. O'Hara , Christopher Crick , Sabit Ekin

Thermal weapon segmentation is crucial for surveillance and security applications, enabling robust detection under lowlight and visually obscured conditions where RGB-based systems fail. While convolutional neural networks (CNNs) dominate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Akhila Kambhatla , Ahmed R Khaled

We address the problem of tactile localization, where the goal is to identify image regions that share the same material properties as a tactile input. Existing visuo-tactile methods rely on global alignment and thus fail to capture the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Seongyu Kim , Seungwoo Lee , Hyeonggon Ryu , Joon Son Chung , Arda Senocak

We introduce Deep Thermal Imaging, a new approach for close-range automatic recognition of materials to enhance the understanding of people and ubiquitous technologies of their proximal environment. Our approach uses a low-cost mobile…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-28 Youngjun Cho , Nadia Bianchi-Berthouze , Nicolai Marquardt , Simon J. Julier

This paper presents a biometric recognition system based on hand geometry. We describe a database specially collected for research purposes, which consists of 50 people and 10 different acquisitions of the right hand. This database can be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-20 Marcos Faundez-Zanuy , Miguel A. Ferrer-Ballester , Carlos M. Travieso-González , Virginia Espinosa-Duro

In this paper we focus on analyzing the thermal modality of tactile sensing for material recognition using a large materials database. Many factors affect thermal recognition performance, including sensor noise, the initial temperatures of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-11-02 Haoping Bai , Haofeng Chen , Elizabeth Healy , Charles C. Kemp , Tapomayukh Bhattacharjee

In this paper we present a new database acquired with three different sensors (visible, near infrared and thermal) under different illumination conditions. This database consists of 41 people acquired in four different acquisition sessions,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Virginia Espinosa-Duró , Marcos Faundez-Zanuy , Jiří Mekyska

Despite the remarkable recent progress, person re-identification (Re-ID) approaches are still suffering from the failure cases where the discriminative body parts are missing. To mitigate such cases, we propose a simple yet effective…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-13 Yang Fu , Yunchao Wei , Yuqian Zhou , Honghui Shi , Gao Huang , Xinchao Wang , Zhiqiang Yao , Thomas Huang

Nowadays, hand gesture recognition has become an alternative for human-machine interaction. It has covered a large area of applications like 3D game technology, sign language interpreting, VR (virtual reality) environment, and robotics. But…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-28 Abir Sen , Tapas Kumar Mishra , Ratnakar Dash

In many real world scenarios, it is difficult to capture the images in the visible light spectrum (VIS) due to bad lighting conditions. However, the images can be captured in such scenarios using Near-Infrared (NIR) and Thermal (THM)…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-07 Kancharagunta Kishan Babu , Shiv Ram Dubey

Finger vein biometrics is an approach to identifying individuals based on the unique patterns of blood vessels in their fingers, and the technology is advanced in image capture and processing techniques, which is leading to more efficient,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-21 George Kumi Kyeremeh , M. Abdul-Al , R. Qahwaji , R. A. Abd-Alhameed

With the increased attention on thermal imagery for Covid-19 screening, the public sector may believe there are new opportunities to exploit thermal as a modality for computer vision and AI. Thermal physiology research has been ongoing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Catherine Ordun , Edward Raff , Sanjay Purushotham

Hand segmentation for hand-object interaction is a necessary preprocessing step in many applications such as augmented reality, medical application, and human-robot interaction. However, typical methods are based on color information which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-11 Byeongkeun Kang , Kar-Han Tan , Nan Jiang , Hung-Shuo Tai , Daniel Tretter , Truong Q. Nguyen

With the increase number of companies focusing on commercializing Augmented Reality (AR), Virtual Reality (VR) and wearable devices, the need for a hand based input mechanism is becoming essential in order to make the experience natural,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-04-22 Emad Barsoum