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Hand gesture recognition (HGR) has gained significant attention due to the increasing use of AI-powered human-computer interfaces that can interpret the deep spatiotemporal dynamics of biosignals from the peripheral nervous system, such as…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-09 Golara Ahmadi Azar , Qin Hu , Melika Emami , Alyson Fletcher , Sundeep Rangan , S. Farokh Atashzar

Human-machine interaction is gaining traction in rehabilitation tasks, such as controlling prosthetic hands or robotic arms. Gesture recognition exploiting surface electromyographic (sEMG) signals is one of the most promising approaches,…

Objective: Multimodal hand gesture recognition (HGR) systems can achieve higher recognition accuracy compared to unimodal HGR systems. However, acquiring multimodal gesture recognition data typically requires users to wear additional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Wentao Wei , Linyan Ren

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

Narrowband radar micro-Doppler signatures are heavily used to identify and classify human activities. When the radar is operated in through-wall environments, the complex electromagnetic propagation phenomenology introduces considerable…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-16 Kainat Yasmeen Shobha Sundar Ram

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…

This paper introduces a framework of gesture recognition operating on the output of an event based camera using the computational resources of a mobile phone. We will introduce a new development around the concept of time-surfaces modified…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-29 Jean-Matthieu Maro , Ryad Benosman

The growing demand for smart home interfaces has increased interest in non-intrusive sensing methods like vibration-based gesture recognition. While prior studies demonstrated feasibility, they often rely on complex preprocessing and large…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Koki Shibata , Tianheng Ling , Chao Qian , Tomokazu Matsui , Hirohiko Suwa , Keiichi Yasumoto , Gregor Schiele

Human activity recognition is seen of great importance in the medical and surveillance fields. Radar has shown great feasibility for this field based on the captured micro-Doppler ({\mu}-D) signatures. In this paper, a MIMO radar is used to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-04 Fady Aziz , Omar Metwally , Pascal Weller , Urs Schneider , Marco F. Huber

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

Event-based vision sensors offer high time resolution, high dynamic range, and low power consumption, yet event-based vision models lag behind conventional frame-based vision methods. We argue that this gap is partly due to the lack of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Jens Egholm Pedersen , Dimitris Korakovounis , Jörg Conradt

In this study, we present a wireless (non-contact) gesture recognition method using only incoherent light wave signals reflected from a human subject. In comparison to existing radar, light shadow, sound and camera-based sensing systems,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-14 Md Zobaer Islam , Li Yu , Hisham Abuella , John F. O'Hara , Christopher Crick , Sabit Ekin

Dynamic hand gestures play a crucial role in conveying nonverbal information for Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), eliminating the need for complex interfaces. Current models for dynamic gesture recognition suffer from limitations in effective…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-28 Eran Bamani Beeri , Eden Nissinman , Avishai Sintov

Neuromorphic vision is a bio-inspired technology that has triggered a paradigm shift in the computer-vision community and is serving as a key-enabler for a multitude of applications. This technology has offered significant advantages…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-07 Yusra Alkendi , Rana Azzam , Abdulla Ayyad , Sajid Javed , Lakmal Seneviratne , Yahya Zweiri

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Adrian Holzbock , Nicolai Kern , Christian Waldschmidt , Klaus Dietmayer , Vasileios Belagiannis

Vision based and event based tactile sensors are important in robotic manipulation research. However, they suffer from a fundamental tradeoff: vision based sensors have low sampling rates, while event based sensors are prone to drift during…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-19 Yihang Li , Yijin Chen , Junkai Xu , Na Ningguta , Peter B. Shull , Shuo Jiang , Bin He

This paper introduces an enormous dataset, HaGRID (HAnd Gesture Recognition Image Dataset), to build a hand gesture recognition (HGR) system concentrating on interaction with devices to manage them. That is why all 18 chosen gestures are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Alexander Kapitanov , Karina Kvanchiani , Alexander Nagaev , Roman Kraynov , Andrei Makhliarchuk

Accurate and real-time hand gesture recognition is essential for controlling advanced hand prostheses. Surface Electromyography (sEMG) signals obtained from the forearm are widely used for this purpose. Here, we introduce a novel hand…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-21 Ashwin De Silva , Malsha V. Perera , Kithmin Wickramasinghe , Asma M. Naim , Thilina Dulantha Lalitharatne , Simon L. Kappel

Event-based cameras are inspired by the sparse and asynchronous spike representation of the biological visual system. However, processing the event data requires either using expensive feature descriptors to transform spikes into frames, or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Sangmin Yoo , Eric Yeu-Jer Lee , Ziyu Wang , Xinxin Wang , Wei D. Lu

Millimeter-wave (mmWave) radar-based gesture recognition is gaining attention as a key technology to enable intuitive human-machine interaction. Nevertheless, the significant challenge lies in obtaining large-scale, high-quality mmWave…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-12-23 Huanqi Yang , Mingda Han , Xinyue Li , Di Duan , Tianxing Li , Weitao Xu