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Estimating the 3D hand articulation from a single color image is an important problem with applications in Augmented Reality (AR), Virtual Reality (VR), Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), and robotics. Apart from the absence of depth…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Christos Pantazopoulos , Spyridon Thermos , Gerasimos Potamianos

We interact with the world with our hands and see it through our own (egocentric) perspective. A holistic 3Dunderstanding of such interactions from egocentric views is important for tasks in robotics, AR/VR, action recognition and motion…

We propose an entirely data-driven approach to estimating the 3D pose of a hand given a depth image. We show that we can correct the mistakes made by a Convolutional Neural Network trained to predict an estimate of the 3D pose by using a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-10-03 Markus Oberweger , Paul Wohlhart , Vincent Lepetit

3D hand pose estimation from RGB images suffers from the difficulty of obtaining the depth information. Therefore, a great deal of attention has been spent on estimating 3D hand pose from 2D hand joints. In this paper, we leverage the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-08 Tu Le-Xuan , Trung Tran-Quang , Thi Ngoc Hien Doan , Thanh-Hai Tran

3D hand shape and pose estimation from a single depth map is a new and challenging computer vision problem with many applications. The state-of-the-art methods directly regress 3D hand meshes from 2D depth images via 2D convolutional neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-06 Jameel Malik , Ibrahim Abdelaziz , Ahmed Elhayek , Soshi Shimada , Sk Aziz Ali , Vladislav Golyanik , Christian Theobalt , Didier Stricker

The proliferation of XR devices has made egocentric hand pose estimation a vital task, yet this perspective is inherently challenged by frequent finger occlusions. To address this, we propose a novel approach that leverages the rich…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-27 William Huang , Siyou Pei , Leyi Zou , Eric J. Gonzalez , Ishan Chatterjee , Yang Zhang

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

We present a novel solution to the problem of 3D tracking of the articulated motion of human hand(s), possibly in interaction with other objects. The vast majority of contemporary relevant work capitalizes on depth information provided by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-16 Paschalis Panteleris , Antonis Argyros

Reconstructing 3D hand mesh is challenging but an important task for human-computer interaction and AR/VR applications. In particular, RGB and/or depth cameras have been widely used in this task. However, methods using these conventional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Ryosei Hara , Wataru Ikeda , Masashi Hatano , Mariko Isogawa

Tremendous amounts of expensive annotated data are a vital ingredient for state-of-the-art 3d hand pose estimation. Therefore, synthetic data has been popularized as annotations are automatically available. However, models trained only with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-17 Masoud Abdi , Ehsan Abbasnejad , Chee Peng Lim , Saeid Nahavandi

We present AnyHand, a large-scale synthetic dataset designed to advance the state of the art in 3D hand pose estimation from both RGB-only and RGB-D inputs. While recent works with foundation approaches have shown that an increase in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Chen Si , Yulin Liu , Bo Ai , Jianwen Xie , Rolandos Alexandros Potamias , Chuanxia Zheng , Hao Su

The surgical usage of Mixed Reality (MR) has received growing attention in areas such as surgical navigation systems, skill assessment, and robot-assisted surgeries. For such applications, pose estimation for hand and surgical instruments…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-05 Rui Wang , Sophokles Ktistakis , Siwei Zhang , Mirko Meboldt , Quentin Lohmeyer

3D hand pose estimation from a single depth image plays an important role in computer vision and human-computer interaction. Although recent hand pose estimation methods using convolution neural network (CNN) have shown notable improvements…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-28 Cheol-hwan Yoo , Seo-won Ji , Yong-goo Shin , Seung-wook Kim , Sung-jea Ko

The malformed hands in the AI-generated images seriously affect the authenticity of the images. To refine malformed hands, existing depth-based approaches use a hand depth estimator to guide the refinement of malformed hands. Due to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Chen-Bin Feng , Kangdao Liu , Jian Sun , Jiping Jin , Yiguo Jiang , Chi-Man Vong

This paper proposes a visual-servoing method dedicated to grasping of daily-life objects. In order to obtain an affordable solution, we use a low-accurate robotic arm. Our method corrects errors by using an RGB-D sensor. It is based on SURF…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-12-13 Ludovic Hofer , Michio Tanaka , Hakaru Tamukoh , Amir Ali Forough Nassiraei , Takashi Morie

We present Ego3DPose, a highly accurate binocular egocentric 3D pose reconstruction system. The binocular egocentric setup offers practicality and usefulness in various applications, however, it remains largely under-explored. It has been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-22 Taeho Kang , Kyungjin Lee , Jinrui Zhang , Youngki Lee

The increasing availability of wearable XR devices opens new perspectives for Egocentric Action Recognition (EAR) systems, which can provide deeper human understanding and situation awareness. However, deploying real-time algorithms on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Marco Calzavara , Ard Kastrati , Matteo Macchini , Dushan Vasilevski , Roger Wattenhofer

3D hand pose estimation from monocular videos is a long-standing and challenging problem, which is now seeing a strong upturn. In this work, we address it for the first time using a single event camera, i.e., an asynchronous vision sensor…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Viktor Rudnev , Vladislav Golyanik , Jiayi Wang , Hans-Peter Seidel , Franziska Mueller , Mohamed Elgharib , Christian Theobalt

We introduce a novel 3D hand pose estimator that can accurately recover the shape and pose of people's hands in a room from afar, typically from fixed cameras at room corners, in extremely low-resolution and frequently occluded views. Our…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Shu Nakamura , Ryo Kawahara , Genki Kinoshita , Ryosuke Hirai , Yasutomo Kawanishi , Shohei Nobuhara , Ko Nishino

We present a novel appearance-based approach for pose estimation of a human hand using the point clouds provided by the low-cost Microsoft Kinect sensor. Both the free-hand case, in which the hand is isolated from the surrounding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-04-08 Pasquale Coscia , Francesco A. N. Palmieri , Francesco Castaldo , Alberto Cavallo