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Direct and natural interaction is essential for intuitive human-robot collaboration, eliminating the need for additional devices such as joysticks, tablets, or wearable sensors. In this paper, we present a lightweight deep learning-based…

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Robotics · Computer Science 2022-08-09 Taisuke Kobayashi , Shingo Murata , Tetsunari Inamura

In recent years, the demand for social robots has grown, requiring them to adapt their behaviors based on users' states. Accurately assessing user experience (UX) in human-robot interaction (HRI) is crucial for achieving this adaptability.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Ryo Miyoshi , Yuki Okafuji , Takuya Iwamoto , Junya Nakanishi , Jun Baba

Hand gestures recognition (HGR) is one of the main areas of research for the engineers, scientists and bioinformatics. HGR is the natural way of Human Machine interaction and today many researchers in the academia and industry are working…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2013-03-12 Ankit Chaudhary , J. L. Raheja , Karen Das , Sonia Raheja

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

Hand gesture recognition using multichannel surface electromyography (sEMG) is challenging due to unstable predictions and inefficient time-varying feature enhancement. To overcome the lack of signal based time-varying feature problems, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-07 Jungpil Shin , Abu Saleh Musa Miah , Sota Konnai , Shu Hoshitaka , Pankoo Kim

ffective Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) is crucial for enhancing accessibility and usability in real-world robotics applications. However, existing solutions often rely on gesture- only or language-only commands, making interaction…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Yuzhi Lai , Shenghai Yuan , Peizheng Li , Boya Zhang , Benjamin Kiefer , Tianchen Deng , Andreas Zell

Virtual reality has proved to be useful in applications in several fields ranging from gaming, medicine, and training to development of interfaces that enable human-robot collaboration. It empowers designers to explore applications outside…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-07-24 Debasmita Mukherjee , Ritwik Singhai , Homayoun Najjaran

As robots are expected to get more involved in people's everyday lives, frameworks that enable intuitive user interfaces are in demand. Hand gesture recognition systems provide a natural way of communication and, thus, are an integral part…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-28 Hassan Ali , Doreen Jirak , Stefan Wermter

Gesture recognition is a pivotal technology in the realm of intelligent education, and millimeter-wave (mmWave) signals possess advantages such as high resolution and strong penetration capability. This paper introduces a highly accurate…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Qun Fang , YiHui Yan , GuoQing Ma

Intuitive user interfaces are indispensable to interact with the human centric smart environments. In this paper, we propose a unified framework that recognizes both static and dynamic gestures, using simple RGB vision (without depth…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-18 Osama Mazhar , Sofiane Ramdani , Andrea Cherubini

This article presents a method for learning well-coordinated Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) from Human-Human Interactions (HHI). We devise a hybrid approach using Hidden Markov Models (HMMs) as the latent space priors for a Variational…

We present a joint camera and radar approach to enable autonomous vehicles to understand and react to human gestures in everyday traffic. Initially, we process the radar data with a PointNet followed by a spatio-temporal multilayer…

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The uncertainty and variability of underwater environment propose the request to control underwater robots in real time and dynamically, especially in the scenarios where human and robots need to work collaboratively in the field. However,…

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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

In this paper, we propose a micro hand gesture recognition system and methods using ultrasonic active sensing. This system uses micro dynamic hand gestures for recognition to achieve human-computer interaction (HCI). The implemented system,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-02 Yu Sang , Laixi Shi , Yimin Liu

Hand gesture is one of the most important means of touchless communication between human and machines. There is a great interest for commanding electronic equipment in surgery rooms by hand gesture for reducing the time of surgery and the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-10-24 Ebrahim Nasr-Esfahani , Nader Karimi , S. M. Reza Soroushmehr , M. Hossein Jafari , M. Amin Khorsandi , Shadrokh Samavi , Kayvan Najarian

Understanding human activity is a crucial aspect of developing intelligent robots, particularly in the domain of human-robot collaboration. Nevertheless, existing systems encounter challenges such as over-segmentation, attributed to errors…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-11 Hao Xing , Darius Burschka

Recognition of surgical gesture is crucial for surgical skill assessment and efficient surgery training. Prior works on this task are based on either variant graphical models such as HMMs and CRFs, or deep learning models such as Recurrent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-22 Daochang Liu , Tingting Jiang

Caregiving of older adults is an urgent global challenge, with many older adults preferring to age in place rather than enter residential care. However, providing adequate home-based assistance remains difficult, particularly in…

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