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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

Humans are able to convey different messages using only touch. Equipping robots with the ability to understand social touch adds another modality in which humans and robots can communicate. In this paper, we present a social gesture…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-24 Dakarai Crowder , Kojo Vandyck , Xiping Sun , James McCann , Wenzhen Yuan

In recent years, deep learning algorithms have become increasingly more prominent for their unparalleled ability to automatically learn discriminant features from large amounts of data. However, within the field of electromyography-based…

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 gesture recognition possesses extensive applications in virtual reality, sign language recognition, and computer games. The direct interface of hand gestures provides us a new way for communicating with the virtual environment. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-08-11 Reza Azad , Babak Azad , Iman Tavakoli Kazerooni

Providing users with accurate gestural interfaces, such as gesture recognition based on wrist-worn devices, is a key challenge in mixed reality. However, static machine learning processes in gesture recognition assume that training and test…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Junxiao Shen , Matthias De Lange , Xuhai "Orson" Xu , Enmin Zhou , Ran Tan , Naveen Suda , Maciej Lazarewicz , Per Ola Kristensson , Amy Karlson , Evan Strasnick

Hand gesture recognition has been granted as one of the emerging fields in research today providing a natural way of communication between man and a machine. Gestures are some forms of body motions which a person expresses when doing a work…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-12-27 Biswarup Ganguly , Amit Konar

In essence, successful grasp boils down to correct responses to multiple contact events between fingertips and objects. In most scenarios, tactile sensing is adequate to distinguish contact events. Due to the nature of high dimensionality…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-10-10 Yazhan Zhang , Weihao Yuan , Zicheng Kan , Michael Yu Wang

The current state-of-the-art hand gesture recognition methodologies heavily rely in the use of machine learning. However there are scenarios that machine learning cannot be applied successfully, for example in situations where data is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-12 Michalis Lazarou , Bo Li , Tania Stathaki

Gestures play a pivotal role in human communication, often serving as a preferred or complementary medium to verbal expression due to their superior spatial reference capabilities. A finger-pointing gesture conveys vital information…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Eran Bamani , Eden Nissinman , Lisa Koenigsberg , Inbar Meir , Yoav Matalon , Avishai Sintov

Over the last years collaborative robots have gained great success in manufacturing applications where human and robot work together in close proximity. However, current ISO/TS-15066-compliant implementations often limit the efficiency of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-25 David Bricher , Andreas Mueller

Real-time robot actuation is one of the main challenges to overcome in human-robot interaction. Most visual sensors are either too slow or their data are too complex to provide meaningful information and low latency input to a robotic…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Laura Duarte , Michele Polito , Laura Gastaldi , Pedro Neto , Stefano Pastorelli

Hugs are complex affective interactions that often include gestures like squeezes. We present six new guidelines for designing interactive hugging robots, which we validate through two studies with our custom robot. To achieve autonomy, we…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Alexis E. Block , Hasti Seifi , Otmar Hilliges , Roger Gassert , Katherine J. Kuchenbecker

Hand gesture detection is a well-explored area in computer vision with applications in various forms of Human-Computer Interactions. In this work, we propose a technique for simultaneous hand gesture classification, handedness detection,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-06 Sichao Li , Sean Banerjee , Natasha Kholgade Banerjee , Soumyabrata Dey

Automated hand gesture recognition has long been a focal point in the AI community. Traditionally, research in this field has predominantly focused on scenarios with access to a continuous flow of hand's images. This focus has been driven…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-26 Ying Liu , Liucheng Guo , Valeri A. Makarovc , Alexander Gorbana , Evgeny Mirkesa , Ivan Y. Tyukin

It is very important to locate survivors from collapsed buildings so that rescue operations can be arranged. Many lives are lost due to lack of competent systems to detect people in these collapsed buildings at the right time. So here we…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-02-01 Athira T. S , Honey Manoj , R S Vishnu Priya , Vishnu K Menon , Srilekshmi M

In this paper, a real-time signal processing frame-work based on a 60 GHz frequency-modulated continuous wave (FMCW) radar system to recognize gestures is proposed. In order to improve the robustness of the radar-based gesture recognition…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-21 Yuliang Sun , Tai Fei , Xibo Li , Alexander Warnecke , Ernst Warsitz , Nils Pohl

The problem of grasping objects using a multi-finger hand has received significant attention in recent years. However, it remains challenging to handle a large number of unfamiliar objects in real and cluttered environments. In this work,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Hengxu Yan , Hao-Shu Fang , Cewu Lu

Augmented reality (AR) offers immersive interaction but remains inaccessible for users with motor impairments or limited dexterity due to reliance on precise input methods. This study proposes a gesture-based interaction system for AR…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Yikan Wang

It is challenging to grasp numerous objects with varying sizes and shapes with a single robot hand. To address this, we propose a new robot hand called the 'F3 hand' inspired by the complex movements of human index finger and thumb. The F3…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-06-17 Naoki Fukaya , Avinash Ummadisingu , Guilherme Maeda , Shin-ichi Maeda