Efficient Hand Gesture Recognition for Human-Robot Interaction

In this paper, we present an efficient and reliable deep-learning approach that allows users to communicate with robots via hand gesture recognition. Contrary to other works which use external devices such as gloves [1] or joysticks [2] to tele-operate robots, the proposed approach uses only visual...

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Autores: Peral Sánchez, Marc, Sanfeliu, Alberto, Garrell, Anaís
Formato: artículo
Estado:Versión aceptada para publicación
Fecha de publicación:2022
País:España
Recursos:Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)
Repositorio:DIGITAL.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC
OAI Identifier:oai:digital.csic.es:10261/295873
Acesso em linha:http://hdl.handle.net/10261/295873
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palavra-chave:Deep learning
Gesture recognition
Human-robot interaction
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Resumo:In this paper, we present an efficient and reliable deep-learning approach that allows users to communicate with robots via hand gesture recognition. Contrary to other works which use external devices such as gloves [1] or joysticks [2] to tele-operate robots, the proposed approach uses only visual information to recognize user's instructions that are encoded in a set of pre-defined hand gestures. Particularly, the method consists of two modules which work sequentially to extract 2D landmarks of hands -ie. joints positions- and to predict the hand gesture based on a temporal representation of them. The approach has been validated in a recent state-of-the-art dataset where it outperformed other methods that use multiple pre-processing steps such as optical flow and semantic segmentation. Our method achieves an accuracy of 87.5% and runs at 10 frames per second. Finally, we conducted real-life experiments with our IVO robot to validate the framework during the interaction process.