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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

Spotting signal patterns with varying lengths has been still an open problem in the literature. In this study, we describe a signal pattern recognition approach for continuous and simultaneous classification of a tracked hand's posture and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2015-12-03 Ali Boyali , Naohisa Hashimoto , Manolya Kavakli

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

Hand gestures form an intuitive means of interaction in Mixed Reality (MR) applications. However, accurate gesture recognition can be achieved only through state-of-the-art deep learning models or with the use of expensive sensors. Despite…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-23 Varun Jain , Gaurav Garg , Ramakrishna Perla , Ramya Hebbalaguppe

Tiny machine learning (TinyML) in IoT systems exploits MCUs as edge devices for data processing. However, traditional TinyML methods can only perform inference, limited to static environments or classes. Real case scenarios usually work in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-02 Alessandro Avi , Andrea Albanese , Davide Brunelli

Hand gestures have evolved into a natural and intuitive means of engaging with technology. The objective of this research is to develop a robust system that can accurately recognize and classify hand gestures representing numbers. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Sangeetha K , Balaji VS , Kamalesh P , Anirudh Ganapathy PS

Using physical interactive devices like mouse and keyboards hinders naturalistic human-machine interaction and increases the probability of surface contact during a pandemic. Existing gesture-recognition systems do not possess user…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-09-08 Ankit Jha , Ishita , Pratham G. Shenwai , Ayush Batra , Siddharth Kotian , Piyush Modi

Machine learning has achieved remarkable success in many applications. However, existing studies are largely based on the closed-world assumption, which assumes that the environment is stationary, and the model is fixed once deployed. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Fei Zhu , Shijie Ma , Zhen Cheng , Xu-Yao Zhang , Zhaoxiang Zhang , Dacheng Tao , Cheng-Lin Liu

We are concerned with a novel sensor-based gesture input/instruction technology which enables human beings to interact with computers conveniently. The human being wears an emitter on the finger or holds a digital pen that generates a time…

Classical Physics · Physics 2017-05-23 Yukun Guo , Jingzhi Li , Hongyu Liu , Xianchao Wang

Human-to-Robot handovers are useful for many Human-Robot Interaction scenarios. It is important to recognize when a human intends to initiate handovers, so that the robot does not try to take objects from humans when a handover is not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Jun Kwan , Chinkye Tan , Akansel Cosgun

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

Hand Gesture Recognition (HGR) enables intuitive human-computer interactions in various real-world contexts. However, existing frameworks often struggle to meet the real-time requirements essential for practical HGR applications. This study…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Oluwaleke Yusuf , Maki Habib , Mohamed Moustafa

Human computer interaction facilitates intelligent communication between humans and computers, in which gesture recognition plays a prominent role. This paper proposes a machine learning system to identify dynamic gestures using tri-axial…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2018-09-19 Gautham Krishna G , Karthik Subramanian Nathan , Yogesh Kumar B , Ankith A Prabhu , Ajay Kannan , Vineeth Vijayaraghavan

Gesture recognition and hand motion tracking are important tasks in advanced gesture based interaction systems. In this paper, we propose to apply a sliding windows filtering approach to sample the incoming streams of data from data gloves…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-02 Sara Masoud , Bijoy Chowdhury , Young-Jun Son , Chieri Kubota , Russell Tronstad

Gestures are a natural communication modality for humans. The ability to interpret gestures is fundamental for robots aiming to naturally interact with humans. Wearable sensors are promising to monitor human activity, in particular the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-11-13 Alessandro Carfi , Carola Motolese , Barbara Bruno , Fulvio Mastrogiovanni

Objective: Surgical activity recognition is a fundamental step in computer-assisted interventions. This paper reviews the state-of-the-art in methods for automatic recognition of fine-grained gestures in robotic surgery focusing on recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-02 Beatrice van Amsterdam , Matthew J. Clarkson , Danail Stoyanov

Gesture recognition enables a natural extension of the way we currently interact with devices. Commercially available gesture recognition systems are usually pre-trained and offer no option for customization by the user. In order to improve…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-18 Anouk van Diepen , Marco Cox , Bert de Vries

A desirable open world recognition (OWR) system requires performing three tasks: (1) Open set recognition (OSR), i.e., classifying the known (classes seen during training) and rejecting the unknown (unseen$/$novel classes) online; (2)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Fulin Gao , Weimin Zhong , Zhixing Cao , Xin Peng , Zhi Li

This paper proposes a novel approach to recognizing dynamic hand gestures facilitating seamless interaction between humans and robots. Here, each robot manipulator task is assigned a specific gesture. There may be several such tasks, hence,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Dharmendra Sharma , Peeyush Thakur , Sandeep Gupta , Narendra Kumar Dhar , Laxmidhar Behera

Gesture recognition is a hot topic in computer vision and pattern recognition, which plays a vitally important role in natural human-computer interface. Although great progress has been made recently, fast and robust hand gesture…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-16 Hao Tang , Hong Liu , Wei Xiao , Nicu Sebe