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Self-touch gestures (e.g., nuanced facial touches and subtle finger scratches) provide rich insights into human behaviors, from hygiene practices to health monitoring. However, existing approaches fall short in detecting such micro gestures…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Siyuan Wang , Ke Li , Jingyuan Huang , Jike Wang , Cheng Zhang , Alanson Sample , Dongyao Chen

Gaze gestures can provide hands free input on mobile devices, but practical use requires (i) gestures users can learn and recall and (ii) recognition models that are efficient enough for on-device deployment. We present an end-to-end…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Yaxiong Lei , Hyochan Cho , Fergus Buchanan , Shijing He , Xinya Gong , Yuheng Wang , Juan Ye

We study the feasibility of touch gesture behavioural biometrics for implicit authentication of users on a smartglass (Google Glass) by proposing a continuous authentication system using two classifiers: SVM with RBF kernel, and a new…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-05-10 Jagmohan Chauhan , Hassan Jameel Asghar , Mohamed Ali Kaafar , Anirban Mahanti

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

Designing of touchless user interface is gaining popularity in various contexts. Using such interfaces, users can interact with electronic devices even when the hands are dirty or non-conductive. Also, user with partial physical disability…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2019-04-05 Abhik Singla , Partha Pratim Roy , Debi Prosad Dogra

Natural user interfaces are on the rise. Manufacturers for Augmented, Virtual, and Mixed Reality head mounted displays are increasingly integrating new sensors into their consumer grade products, allowing gesture recognition without…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Alexander Schäfer , Gerd Reis , Didier Stricker

Smartphones with large screens provide users with increased display and interaction space but pose challenges in reaching certain areas with the thumb when using the device with one hand. To address this, we introduce GazeSwipe, a…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Zhuojiang Cai , Jingkai Hong , Zhimin Wang , Feng Lu

Sensors on mobile devices---accelerometers, gyroscopes, pressure meters, and GPS---invite new applications in gesture recognition, gaming, and fitness tracking. However, programming them remains challenging because human gestures captured…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-10-27 Diman Zad Tootaghaj , Adrian Sampson , Todd Mytkowicz , Kathryn S McKinley

Providing users with accurate gestural interfaces, such as gesture recognition based on wrist-worn devices, is a key challenge in mixed reality. However, static machine learning processes in gesture recognition assume that training and test…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Junxiao Shen , Matthias De Lange , Xuhai "Orson" Xu , Enmin Zhou , Ran Tan , Naveen Suda , Maciej Lazarewicz , Per Ola Kristensson , Amy Karlson , Evan Strasnick

Despite the immense technology advancement in the surgeries the criteria of assessing the surgical skills still remains based on subjective standards. With the advent of robotic-assisted surgery, new opportunities for objective and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Mahtab J. Fard , Sattar Ameri , R. Darin Ellis

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

With the emerging of touch-less human-computer interaction techniques and gadgets, mid-air hand gestures have been widely used for authentication. Much literature examined either the usability or security of a handful of gestures. This…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-11-27 Wenyuan Xu , Xiaopeng Li , Jing Tian , Yujun Xiao , Xianshan Qu , Song Wang , Xiaoyu Ji

Hand gesture recognition plays a significant role in human-computer interaction for understanding various human gestures and their intent. However, most prior works can only recognize gestures of limited labeled classes and fail to adapt to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-30 Jinting Wu , Yujia Zhang , Xiaoguang Zhao

We develop Few-Shot Learning models trained to recognize five or ten different dynamic hand gestures, respectively, which are arbitrarily interchangeable by providing the model with one, two, or five examples per hand gesture. All models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-19 Niels Schlüsener , Michael Bücker

We study the task of gesture recognition from electromyography (EMG), with the goal of enabling expressive human-computer interaction at high accuracy, while minimizing the time required for new subjects to provide calibration data. To…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-11-30 Niklas Smedemark-Margulies , Yunus Bicer , Elifnur Sunger , Tales Imbiriba , Eugene Tunik , Deniz Erdogmus , Mathew Yarossi , Robin Walters

Dynamic hand tracking and gesture recognition is a hard task since there are many joints on the fingers and each joint owns many degrees of freedom. Besides, object occlusion is also a thorny issue in finger tracking and posture…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2018-09-18 Zhishuai Han , Xiaojuan Ban , Xiaokun Wang , Di wu

This paper introduces a framework of gesture recognition operating on the output of an event based camera using the computational resources of a mobile phone. We will introduce a new development around the concept of time-surfaces modified…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-29 Jean-Matthieu Maro , Ryad Benosman

We designed and tested a system for real-time control of a user interface by extracting surface electromyographic (sEMG) activity from eight electrodes in a wrist-band configuration. sEMG data were streamed into a machine-learning algorithm…

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

Cross-user electromyography (EMG)-based gesture recognition represents a fundamental challenge in achieving scalable and personalized human-machine interaction within real-world applications. Despite extensive efforts, existing…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Nana Wang , Suli Wang , Gen Li , Zhaoxin Fan