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Capturing Hand Motion with an RGB-D Sensor, Fusing a Generative Model with Salient Points
Hand motion capture has been an active research topic in recent years, following the success of full-body pose tracking. Despite similarities, hand tracking proves to be more challenging, characterized by a higher dimensionality, severe occlusions and self-similarity between fingers. For this reason, most approaches rely on strong assumptions, like hands in isolation or expensive multi-camera systems, that limit the practical use. In this work, we propose a framework for hand tracking that can capture the motion of two interacting hands using only a single, inexpensive RGB-D camera. Our approach combines a generative model with collision detection and discriminatively learned salient points. We quantitatively evaluate our approach on 14 new sequences with challenging interactions.
@inproceedings{GCPR_2014_Tzionas_Gall, title = {Capturing Hand Motion with an RGB-D Sensor, Fusing a Generative Model with Salient Points}, booktitle = {German Conference on Pattern Recognition (GCPR)}, abstract = {Hand motion capture has been an active research topic in recent years, following the success of full-body pose tracking. Despite similarities, hand tracking proves to be more challenging, characterized by a higher dimensionality, severe occlusions and self-similarity between fingers. For this reason, most approaches rely on strong assumptions, like hands in isolation or expensive multi-camera systems, that limit the practical use. In this work, we propose a framework for hand tracking that can capture the motion of two interacting hands using only a single, inexpensive RGB-D camera. Our approach combines a generative model with collision detection and discriminatively learned salient points. We quantitatively evaluate our approach on 14 new sequences with challenging interactions. }, pages = {1-13}, series = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science}, publisher = {Springer}, month = sep, year = {2014}, slug = {gcpr_2014_tzionas_gall}, author = {Tzionas, Dimitrios and Srikantha, Abhilash and Aponte, Pablo and Gall, Juergen}, month_numeric = {9} }