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We revisit the study of a wrist-mounted camera system (referred to as HandCam) for recognizing activities of hands. HandCam has two unique properties as compared to egocentric systems (referred to as HeadCam): (1) it avoids the need to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-03-23 Cheng-Sheng Chan , Shou-Zhong Chen , Pei-Xuan Xie , Chiung-Chih Chang , Min Sun

Gesture recognition is an indispensable component of natural and efficient human-computer interaction technology, particularly in desktop-level applications, where it can significantly enhance people's productivity. However, the current…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Qi Wang , Fengchao Zhu , Guangming Zhu , Liang Zhang , Ning Li , Eryang Gao

Hand gestures play a significant role in human interactions where non-verbal intentions, thoughts and commands are conveyed. In Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), hand gestures offer a similar and efficient medium for conveying clear and rapid…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-11 Eran Bamani , Eden Nissinman , Inbar Meir , Lisa Koenigsberg , Avishai Sintov

Hand gesture recognition allows humans to interact with machines non-verbally, which has a huge application in underwater exploration using autonomous underwater vehicles. Recently, a new gesture-based language called CADDIAN has been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-22 Sandipan Sarma , Gundameedi Sai Ram Mohan , Hariansh Sehgal , Arijit Sur

Hand gesture understanding is essential for several applications in human-computer interaction, including automatic clinical assessment of hand dexterity. While deep learning has advanced static gesture recognition, dynamic gesture…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Gianluca Amprimo , Alberto Ancilotto , Alessandro Savino , Fabio Quazzolo , Claudia Ferraris , Gabriella Olmo , Elisabetta Farella , Stefano Di Carlo

Hand gesture recognition is an important aspect of human-computer interaction. It forms the basis of sign language for the visually impaired people. This work proposes a novel hand gesture recognizing system for the differently-abled…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Subham Sharma , Sharmila Subudhi

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

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

Gestures are a key component of non-verbal communication in traffic, often helping pedestrian-to-driver interactions when formal traffic rules may be insufficient. This problem becomes more apparent when autonomous vehicles (AVs) struggle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Alif Rizqullah Mahdi , Mahdi Rezaei , Natasha Merat

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

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…

Pose based hand gesture recognition has been widely studied in the recent years. Compared with full body action recognition, hand gesture involves joints that are more spatially closely distributed with stronger collaboration. This nature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-25 Chuankun Li , Shuai Li , Yanbo Gao , Xiang Zhang , Wanqing Li

A lensless camera is an imaging system that uses a mask in place of a lens, making it thinner, lighter, and less expensive than a lensed camera. However, additional complex computation and time are required for image reconstruction. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-26 Yinger Zhang , Zhouyi Wu , Peiying Lin , Yang Pan , Yuting Wu , Liufang Zhang , Jiangtao Huangfu

The dynamic hand gesture recognition task has seen studies on various unimodal and multimodal methods. Previously, researchers have explored depth and 2D-skeleton-based multimodal fusion CRNNs (Convolutional Recurrent Neural Networks) but…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Hasan Mahmud , Mashrur M. Morshed , Md. Kamrul Hasan

Physical human-robot interactions (pHRI) are less efficient and communicative than human-human interactions, and a key reason is a lack of informative sense of touch in robotic systems. Interpreting human touch gestures is a nuanced,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Bibit Bianchini , Prateek Verma , Kenneth Salisbury

Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) has been the subject of research for many years, and recent studies have focused on improving its performance through various techniques. In the past decade, deep learning studies have shown high performance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-22 Serkan Savaş , Atilla Ergüzen

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

Most existing hand gesture recognition (HGR) systems are limited to a predefined set of gestures. However, users and developers often want to recognize new, unseen gestures. This is challenging due to the vast diversity of all plausible…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-21 Esha Uboweja , David Tian , Qifei Wang , Yi-Chun Kuo , Joe Zou , Lu Wang , George Sung , Matthias Grundmann

Previous research in human gesture recognition has largely overlooked multi-person interactions, which are crucial for understanding the social context of naturally occurring gestures. This limitation in existing datasets presents a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-04 Xu Cao , Pranav Virupaksha , Wenqi Jia , Bolin Lai , Fiona Ryan , Sangmin Lee , James M. Rehg

Gestures are an integral part of our daily interactions with the environment. Hand gesture recognition (HGR) is the process of interpreting human intent through various input modalities, such as visual data (images and videos) and…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Soroush Baghernezhad , Elaheh Mohammadreza , Vinicius Prado da Fonseca , Ting Zou , Xianta Jiang