2016/06/23 by Liuhao Ge, Ge, Liuhao, Hui Liang +5 · 5 citations
Computer Science · Engineering · #Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV) #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Hand Gesture Recognition Systems #Human Pose and Action Recognition #Robot Manipulation and Learning
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1606.07253
openalex publication_date 2016/06/23 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Articulated hand pose estimation plays an important role in human-computer interaction. Despite the recent progress, the accuracy of existing methods is still not satisfactory, partially due to the difficulty of embedded high-dimensional and non-linear regression problem. Different from the existing discriminative methods that regress for the hand pose with a single depth image, we propose to first project the query depth image onto three orthogonal planes and utilize these multi-view projections to regress for 2D heat-maps which estimate the joint positions on each plane. These multi-view heat-maps are then fused to produce final 3D hand pose estimation with learned pose priors. Experiments show that the proposed method largely outperforms state-of-the-art on a challenging dataset. Moreover, a cross-dataset experiment also demonstrates the good generalization ability of the proposed method.