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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

Natural co-speech gestures are essential components to improve the experience of Human-robot interaction (HRI). However, current gesture generation approaches have many limitations of not being natural, not aligning with the speech and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Shiyi Tang , Christian Dondrup

In this paper, we demonstrate the ability to recognize hand gestures in a non-contact, wireless fashion using only incoherent light signals reflected from a human subject. Fundamentally distinguished from radar, lidar and camera-based…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-17 Li Yu , Hisham Abuella , Md Zobaer Islam , John F. O'Hara , Christopher Crick , Sabit Ekin

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

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

Sensing surface vibrations promise unobtrusive interaction for smart home systems by enabling gesture recognition on existing everyday surfaces without disturbing living-space design. Existing approaches typically address only parts of the…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Florian Hettstedt , Cedric Giese , Tianheng Ling , Keiichi Yasumoto , Gregor Schiele , Andreas Erbslöh

Pointing gestures are a common interaction method used in Human-Robot Collaboration for various tasks, ranging from selecting targets to guiding industrial processes. This study introduces a method for localizing pointed targets within a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-30 Noora Sassali , Roel Pieters

Humans build 3D understandings of the world through active object exploration, using jointly their senses of vision and touch. However, in 3D shape reconstruction, most recent progress has relied on static datasets of limited sensory data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-27 Edward J. Smith , David Meger , Luis Pineda , Roberto Calandra , Jitendra Malik , Adriana Romero , Michal Drozdzal

The recent advancement in technology breaks the barriers to communication between users and computers. The communication between humans and computers includes emotion and gesture recognition. Emotions can be recognized on the face of humans…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-06-08 Heena , Sandeep Ranjan

The virtual reality (VR) and human-computer interaction (HCI) combination has radically changed the way users approach a virtual environment, increasing the feeling of VR immersion, and improving the user experience and usability. The…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-02-14 Nicola Capece , Ugo Erra , Delfina Malandrino , Max M. North , Monica Gruosso

Human interaction recognition is a challenging problem in computer vision and has been researched over the years due to its important applications. With the development of deep models for the human pose estimation problem, this work aims to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-12-14 Marcel Sheeny de Moraes , Sankha Mukherjee , Neil M Robertson

Free-form gesture understanding is highly appealing for human-computer interaction, as it liberates users from the constraints of predefined gesture categories. However, the sole existing solution GestureGPT suffers from limited recognition…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Zhuoming Li , Aitong Liu , Mengxi Jia , Yubi Lu , Tengxiang Zhang , Changzhi Sun , Dell Zhang , Xuelong Li

Skeletal Action recognition from an egocentric view is important for applications such as interfaces in AR/VR glasses and human-robot interaction, where the device has limited resources. Most of the existing skeletal action recognition…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-20 Junan Lin , Zhichao Sun , Enjie Cao , Taein Kwon , Mahdi Rad , Marc Pollefeys

Robots which interact with the physical world will benefit from a fine-grained tactile understanding of objects and surfaces. Additionally, for certain tasks, robots may need to know the haptic properties of an object before touching it. To…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-04-13 Yang Gao , Lisa Anne Hendricks , Katherine J. Kuchenbecker , Trevor Darrell

As robots become increasingly prevalent in both homes and industrial settings, the demand for intuitive and efficient human-machine interaction continues to rise. Gesture recognition offers an intuitive control method that does not require…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Yuqing Song , Cesare Tonola , Stefano Savazzi , Sanaz Kianoush , Nicola Pedrocchi , Stephan Sigg

Many vision based applications have used fingertips to track or manipulate gestures in their applications. Gesture identification is a natural way to pass the signals to the machine, as the human express its feelings most of the time with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2012-12-04 J. L. Raheja , Karen Das , Ankit Chaudhary

In visual surveillance systems, it is necessary to recognize the behavior of people handling objects such as a phone, a cup, or a plastic bag. In this paper, to address this problem, we propose a new framework for recognizing object-related…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Sunoh Kim , Kimin Yun , Jongyoul Park , Jin Young Choi

Vision based human motion recognition has fascinated many researchers due to its critical challenges and a variety of applications. The applications range from simple gesture recognition to complicated behaviour understanding in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-08-25 Geetanjali Vinayak Kale , Varsha Hemant Patil

Capacitive sensing is a prominent technology that is cost-effective and low power consuming with fast recognition speed compared to existing sensing systems. On account of these advantages, Capacitive sensing has been widely studied and…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-01-06 Hunmin Lee , Jaya Krishna Mandivarapu , Nahom Ogbazghi , Yingshu Li

Gestures are central to human communication, enriching interactions through non-verbal expression. Virtual avatars increasingly use AI-generated gestures to enhance life-likeness, yet evaluations have largely been confined to 2D. Virtual…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Axel Wiebe Werner , Jonas Beskow , Anna Deichler