Human-Robot Interaction Through Egocentric Hand Gesture Recognition
摘要
Recognition of human hand gestures in industrial environments is gaining popularity, especially in the context of assistance systems, thanks to advancements in deep learning-based vision methods. Also, head-worn devices with cameras are becoming more popular especially for smart assistance using Extended Reality (XR) technology, even for industrial use cases. Employing sensors from head-worn devices such as HoloLens enhance the communication between human and robot hereby providing interaction using ego-centric vision. This study delves into human-robot interaction by investigating ego-centered hand gesture recognition for commanding robots. A pipeline is developed for collecting these HoloLens video frames and to detect hand landmark labels on them using MediaPipe library by Google. Then, a Long Short-Term Memory Network (LSTM) model for hand-gesture recognition was developed that classifies the hand-gesture from the given hand landmarks in near real-time, which can then be translated into robot commands. We also present results for our network’s performance and implementation pipeline.