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In this paper we present a method to identify people by means of thermal (TH) and visible (VIS) hand images acquired simultaneously with a TESTO 882-3 camera. In addition, we also present a new database specially acquired for this work. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-24 Xavier Font-Aragones , Marcos Faundez-Zanuy , Jiri Mekyska

We present an experimental setup and methodology designed to facilitate high-precision thermal measurements required for infrared medical tomography. The approach which is best suited for the study of specialized hardware phantoms comprises…

Medical Physics · Physics 2026-04-08 Anna Frixou , Efstathios Stiliaris , Costas N. Papanicolas

Blood oxygen saturation (SpO$_2$) is an important indicator for pulmonary and respiratory functionalities. Clinical findings on COVID-19 show that many patients had dangerously low blood oxygen levels not long before conditions worsened. It…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-04 Xin Tian , Chau-Wai Wong , Sushant M. Ranadive , Min Wu

Recent research on biometrics focuses on achieving a high success rate of authentication and addressing the concern of various spoofing attacks. Although hand geometry recognition provides adequate security over unauthorized access, it is…

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Infrared thermography, which has widely spread particularly during the COVID-19 period, has been effectively used for research on health monitoring and emotion estimation. Nevertheless, detecting minute temperature changes with thermography…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-15 Nanami Kotani , Yasuaki Monnai

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

Purpose: In this paper, we present a novel approach to the automatic evaluation of open surgery skills using depth cameras. This work is intended to show that depth cameras achieve similar results to RGB cameras, which is the common method…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-19 Ido Zuckerman , Nicole Werner , Jonathan Kouchly , Emma Huston , Shannon DiMarco , Paul DiMusto , Shlomi Laufer

Thermal infrared cameras are increasingly being used in various applications such as robot vision, industrial inspection and medical imaging, thanks to their improved resolution and portability. However, the performance of traditional…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-16 Manash Pratim Das , Larry Matthies , Shreyansh Daftry

Measuring temperature fields in semi-transparent media requires the knowledge of material thermo-optic properties. While the current techniques are well established for isothermal thin films, they remain unexplored for thick media where…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-05-02 Jordan Letessier , Abel Netter , Jérémie Maire , Stéphane Chevalier

Grasping and manipulating objects is an important human skill. Since hand-object contact is fundamental to grasping, capturing it can lead to important insights. However, observing contact through external sensors is challenging because of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-16 Samarth Brahmbhatt , Cusuh Ham , Charles C. Kemp , James Hays

We study the efficiency of estimation procedures where the temperature of an external bath is indirectly recovered by monitoring the transformations induced on a probing system that is put in thermal contact with the bath. In particular we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-07-19 Antonella De Pasquale , Kazuya Yuasa , Vittorio Giovannetti

The need for remote tools for healthcare monitoring has never been more apparent. Camera measurement of vital signs leverages imaging devices to compute physiological changes by analyzing images of the human body. Building on advances in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-24 Daniel McDuff

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

Designing egocentric 3D hand pose estimation systems that can perform reliably in complex, real-world scenarios is crucial for downstream applications. Previous approaches using RGB or NIR imagery struggle in challenging conditions: RGB…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Fangqiang Ding , Yunzhou Zhu , Xiangyu Wen , Gaowen Liu , Chris Xiaoxuan Lu

Two-color (2C) pyrometry has long been used for flame temperature and soot concentration studies and is now becoming more widely used to measure surface temperatures of burning materials. With the obvious advantage of being a contact-free…

Applied Physics · Physics 2022-03-21 Tanja Pelzmann , Fabien Dupont , Benjamin Sauté , Étienne Robert

Fingernail imaging has been proven to be effective in prior works [1],[2] for estimating the 3D fingertip forces with a maximum RMS estimation error of 7%. In the current research, fingernail imaging is used to perform unconstrained grasp…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-10-01 Navid Fallahinia , Stephen A. Mascaro

Hand hygiene is a standard six-step hand-washing action proposed by the World Health Organization (WHO). However, there is no good way to supervise medical staff to do hand hygiene, which brings the potential risk of disease spread.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Chenglong Li , Qiwen Zhu , Tubiao Liu , Jin Tang , Yu Su

Despite being regarded as a well-established field, temperature measurement continues to pose significant challenges for many professionals in the metrology industry. Thermal imagers enable fast, non-contact and a full field measurement,…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-02-13 Jamie Luke McMillan

In this work, an extensive review of literature in the field of gesture recognition carried out along with the implementation of a simple classification system for hand hygiene stages based on deep learning solutions. A subset of robust…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-19 Rashmi Bakshi

Fast and robust hand segmentation and tracking is an essential basis for gesture recognition and thus an important component for contact-less human-computer interaction (HCI). Hand gesture recognition based on 2D video data has been…

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