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We present a novel method for real-time pose and shape reconstruction of two strongly interacting hands. Our approach is the first two-hand tracking solution that combines an extensive list of favorable properties, namely it is marker-less,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-16 Franziska Mueller , Micah Davis , Florian Bernard , Oleksandr Sotnychenko , Mickeal Verschoor , Miguel A. Otaduy , Dan Casas , Christian Theobalt

Wearable exoskeletons can augment human strength and reduce muscle fatigue during specific tasks. However, developing personalized and task-generalizable assistance algorithms remains a critical challenge. To address this, a meta-imitation…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Muyuan Ma , Long Cheng , Lijun Han , Xiuze Xia , Houcheng Li

In this work, we tackle the challenging task of jointly tracking hand object pose and reconstructing their shapes from depth point cloud sequences in the wild, given the initial poses at frame 0. We for the first time propose a point cloud…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Jiayi Chen , Mi Yan , Jiazhao Zhang , Yinzhen Xu , Xiaolong Li , Yijia Weng , Li Yi , Shuran Song , He Wang

Hand exoskeletons are critical tools for dexterous teleoperation and immersive manipulation interfaces, but achieving accurate hand tracking remains a challenge due to user-specific anatomical variability and donning inconsistencies. These…

This paper introduces a SSSUMO, semi-supervised deep learning approach for submovement decomposition that achieves state-of-the-art accuracy and speed. While submovement analysis offers valuable insights into motor control, existing methods…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-07-14 Evgenii Rudakov , Jonathan Shock , Otto Lappi , Benjamin Ultan Cowley

We present a novel method for monocular hand shape and pose estimation at unprecedented runtime performance of 100fps and at state-of-the-art accuracy. This is enabled by a new learning based architecture designed such that it can make use…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-14 Yuxiao Zhou , Marc Habermann , Weipeng Xu , Ikhsanul Habibie , Christian Theobalt , Feng Xu

Biomimetic and compliant robotic hands offer the potential for human-like dexterity, but controlling them is challenging due to high dimensionality, complex contact interactions, and uncertainties in state estimation. Sampling-based model…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Adrian Hess , Alexander M. Kübler , Benedek Forrai , Mehmet Dogar , Robert K. Katzschmann

This work presents an efficient algorithmic framework for real-time identification, classification, and evaluation of human physiotherapy exercises using mobile devices. The proposed method interprets a kinetic movement as a sequence of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Stylianos Kandylakis , Christos Orfanopoulos , Georgios Siolas , Panayiotis Tsanakas

Coordinated human movement depends on the integration of multisensory inputs, sensorimotor transformation, and motor execution, as well as sensory feedback resulting from body-environment interaction. Building dynamic models of the…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-06-03 Chenhui Zuo , Guohao Lin , Chen Zhang , Shanning Zhuang , Yanan Sui

In myoelectric control, simultaneous control of multiple degrees of freedom can be challenging due to the dexterity of the human hand. Numerous studies have focused on hand functionality, however, they only focused on a few degrees of…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Farnaz Rahimi , Mohammad Ali Badamchizadeh , Raul C. Sîmpetru , Sehraneh Ghaemi , Bjoern M. Eskofier , Alessandro Del Vecchio

When executing whole-body motions, humans are able to use a large variety of support poses which not only utilize the feet, but also hands, knees and elbows to enhance stability. While there are many works analyzing the transitions involved…

Robotics · Computer Science 2015-10-01 Christian Mandery , Júlia Borràs , Mirjam Jöchner , Tamim Asfour

Visual uncertainties such as occlusions, lack of texture, and noise present significant challenges in obtaining accurate kinematic models for safe robotic manipulation. We introduce a probabilistic real-time approach that leverages the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Adrian Pfisterer , Xing Li , Vito Mengers , Oliver Brock

Dexterous in-hand manipulation is a unique and valuable human skill requiring sophisticated sensorimotor interaction with the environment while respecting stability constraints. Satisfying these constraints with generated motions is…

This paper proposes a do-it-all neural model of human hands, named LISA. The model can capture accurate hand shape and appearance, generalize to arbitrary hand subjects, provide dense surface correspondences, be reconstructed from images in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Enric Corona , Tomas Hodan , Minh Vo , Francesc Moreno-Noguer , Chris Sweeney , Richard Newcombe , Lingni Ma

Existing human Motion Capture (MoCap) methods mostly focus on the visual similarity while neglecting the physical plausibility. As a result, downstream tasks such as driving virtual human in 3D scene or humanoid robots in real world suffer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Shenghao Ren , Yi Lu , Jiayi Huang , Jiayi Zhao , He Zhang , Tao Yu , Qiu Shen , Xun Cao

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

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

We propose a new self-supervised method for predicting 3D human body pose from a single image. The prediction network is trained from a dataset of unlabelled images depicting people in typical poses and a set of unpaired 2D poses. By…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-06 Jose Sosa , David Hogg

The embodied learning of human motor control requires whole-body neuro-actuated musculoskeletal dynamics, while the internal muscle-driven processes underlying movement remain inaccessible to direct measurement. Computational modeling…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Yunyue Wei , Chenhui Zuo , Shanning Zhuang , Haixin Gong , Yaming Liu , Yanan Sui

This paper proposes a weakly-supervised learning framework for dynamics estimation from human motion. Although there are many solutions to capture pure human motion readily available, their data is not sufficient to analyze quality and…

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