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Dynamic gestures enable the transfer of directive information to a robot. Moreover, the ability of a robot to recognize them from a long distance makes communication more effective and practical. However, current state-of-the-art models for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Eran Bamani Beeri , Eden Nissinman , Avishai Sintov

In human interactions, hands are a powerful way of expressing information that, in some cases, can be used as a valid substitute for voice, as it happens in Sign Language. Hand gesture recognition has always been an interesting topic in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-26 Danilo Avola , Marco Bernardi , Luigi Cinque , Gian Luca Foresti , Cristiano Massaroni

We propose a two-stage convolutional neural network (CNN) architecture for robust recognition of hand gestures, called HGR-Net, where the first stage performs accurate semantic segmentation to determine hand regions, and the second stage…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-01 Amirhossein Dadashzadeh , Alireza Tavakoli Targhi , Maryam Tahmasbi , Majid Mirmehdi

Point clouds data, as one kind of representation of 3D objects, are the most primitive output obtained by 3D sensors. Unlike 2D images, point clouds are disordered and unstructured. Hence it is not straightforward to apply classification…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-03 Zhuyang Xie , Junzhou Chen , Bo Peng

Human activity recognition (HAR) requires extracting accurate spatial-temporal features with human movements. A mmWave radar point cloud-based HAR system suffers from sparsity and variable-size problems due to the physical features of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Senhao Gao , Junqing Zhang , Luoyu Mei , Shuai Wang , Xuyu Wang

4D millimeter wave radars (4D radars) are new emerging sensors that provide point clouds of objects with both position and radial velocity measurements. Compared to LiDARs, they are more affordable and reliable sensors for robots'…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Xingyi Li , Han Zhang , Ziliang Wang , Yukai Yang , Weidong Chen

Point clouds captured by different sensors such as RGB-D cameras and LiDAR possess non-negligible domain gaps. Most existing methods design different network architectures and train separately on point clouds from various sensors.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-29 Shengjun Zhang , Xin Fei , Yueqi Duan

This work proposes a low-power high-accuracy embedded hand-gesture recognition algorithm targeting battery-operated wearable devices using low power short-range RADAR sensors. A 2D Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) using range frequency…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-07 Moritz Scherer , Michele Magno , Jonas Erb , Philipp Mayer , Manuel Eggimann , Luca Benini

Human motion prediction is a challenging task due to the stochasticity and aperiodicity of future poses. Recently, graph convolutional network has been proven to be very effective to learn dynamic relations among pose joints, which is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-18 Lingwei Dang , Yongwei Nie , Chengjiang Long , Qing Zhang , Guiqing Li

Millimeter-wave radars are being increasingly integrated into commercial vehicles to support new advanced driver-assistance systems by enabling robust and high-performance object detection, localization, as well as recognition - a key…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-02 Xiangyu Gao , Guanbin Xing , Sumit Roy , Hui Liu

Due to the sparsity and irregularity of the point cloud data, methods that directly consume points have become popular. Among all point-based models, graph convolutional networks (GCN) lead to notable performance by fully preserving the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-14 Qiangeng Xu , Xudong Sun , Cho-Ying Wu , Panqu Wang , Ulrich Neumann

Hand gesture recognition (HGR) is a fundamental technology in human computer interaction (HCI).In particular, HGR based on Doppler radar signals is suited for in-vehicle interfaces and robotic systems, necessitating lightweight and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Towa Sano , Gouhei Tanaka

In practical applications, computer vision tasks often need to be addressed simultaneously. Multitask learning typically achieves this by jointly training a single deep neural network to learn shared representations, providing efficiency…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Konstantinos Spathis , Nikolaos Kardaris , Petros Maragos

Pose-based action recognition has drawn considerable attention recently. Existing methods exploit the joint positions to extract the body-part features from the activation map of the convolutional networks to assist human action…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-02 Lei Shi , Yifan Zhang , Jian Cheng , Hanqing Lu

Three dimensional (3D) object recognition is becoming a key desired capability for many computer vision systems such as autonomous vehicles, service robots and surveillance drones to operate more effectively in unstructured environments.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-25 Chenxi Xiao , Juan Wachs

Face recognition using 3D point clouds is gaining growing interest, while raw point clouds often contain a significant amount of noise due to imperfect sensors. In this paper, an end-to-end 3D face recognition on a noisy point cloud is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Junyu Liu , Jianfeng Ren , Sunhong Liang , Xudong Jiang

Millimetre-wave (mmWave) radar has emerged as an attractive and cost-effective alternative for human activity sensing compared to traditional camera-based systems. mmWave radars are also non-intrusive, providing better protection for user…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-03 Han Cui , Shu Zhong , Jiacheng Wu , Zichao Shen , Naim Dahnoun , Yiren Zhao

The method of deep learning has achieved excellent results in improving the performance of robotic grasping detection. However, the deep learning methods used in general object detection are not suitable for robotic grasping detection.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-26 Hu Cao , Guang Chen , Zhijun Li , Jianjie Lin , Alois Knoll

In this paper, we propose an end-to-end learning network to predict future frames in a point cloud sequence. As main novelty, an initial layer learns topological information of point clouds as geometric features, to form representative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Pedro Gomes , Silvia Rossi , Laura Toni

Human Activity Recognition has gained significant attention due to its diverse applications, including ambient assisted living and remote sensing. Wearable sensor-based solutions often suffer from user discomfort and reliability issues,…