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We present a novel appearance-based approach for pose estimation of a human hand using the point clouds provided by the low-cost Microsoft Kinect sensor. Both the free-hand case, in which the hand is isolated from the surrounding environment, and the hand-object case, in which the different types of interactions are classified, have been considered. The pose estimation is obtained by applying a modified version of the Iterative Closest Point (ICP) algorithm to the synthetic models. The proposed framework uses a “pure” point cloud as provided by the Kinect sensor without any other information such as RGB values or normal vector components.
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Coscia, P., Palmieri, F.A.N., Castaldo, F., Cavallo, A. (2016). 3-D Hand Pose Estimation from Kinect’s Point Cloud Using Appearance Matching. In: Bassis, S., Esposito, A., Morabito, F., Pasero, E. (eds) Advances in Neural Networks. WIRN 2015. Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies, vol 54. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-33747-0_4
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