AirGlove: Exploring Egocentric 3D Hand Tracking and Appearance Generalization for Sensing Gloves

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Hauptverfasser: Cui, Wenhui, Kou, Ziyi, Qin, Chuan, Ristani, Ergys, Guan, Li
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author Cui, Wenhui
Kou, Ziyi
Qin, Chuan
Ristani, Ergys
Guan, Li
author_facet Cui, Wenhui
Kou, Ziyi
Qin, Chuan
Ristani, Ergys
Guan, Li
contents Sensing gloves have become important tools for teleoperation and robotic policy learning as they are able to provide rich signals like speed, acceleration and tactile feedback. A common approach to track gloved hands is to directly use the sensor signals (e.g., angular velocity, gravity orientation) to estimate 3D hand poses. However, sensor-based tracking can be restrictive in practice as the accuracy is often impacted by sensor signal and calibration quality. Recent advances in vision-based approaches have achieved strong performance on human hands via large-scale pre-training, but their performance on gloved hands with distinct visual appearances remains underexplored. In this work, we present the first systematic evaluation of vision-based hand tracking models on gloved hands under both zero-shot and fine-tuning setups. Our analysis shows that existing bare-hand models suffer from substantial performance degradation on sensing gloves due to large appearance gap between bare-hand and glove designs. We therefore propose AirGlove, which leverages existing gloves to generalize the learned glove representations towards new gloves with limited data. Experiments with multiple sensing gloves show that AirGlove effectively generalizes the hand pose models to new glove designs and achieves a significant performance boost over the compared schemes.
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spellingShingle AirGlove: Exploring Egocentric 3D Hand Tracking and Appearance Generalization for Sensing Gloves
Cui, Wenhui
Kou, Ziyi
Qin, Chuan
Ristani, Ergys
Guan, Li
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Sensing gloves have become important tools for teleoperation and robotic policy learning as they are able to provide rich signals like speed, acceleration and tactile feedback. A common approach to track gloved hands is to directly use the sensor signals (e.g., angular velocity, gravity orientation) to estimate 3D hand poses. However, sensor-based tracking can be restrictive in practice as the accuracy is often impacted by sensor signal and calibration quality. Recent advances in vision-based approaches have achieved strong performance on human hands via large-scale pre-training, but their performance on gloved hands with distinct visual appearances remains underexplored. In this work, we present the first systematic evaluation of vision-based hand tracking models on gloved hands under both zero-shot and fine-tuning setups. Our analysis shows that existing bare-hand models suffer from substantial performance degradation on sensing gloves due to large appearance gap between bare-hand and glove designs. We therefore propose AirGlove, which leverages existing gloves to generalize the learned glove representations towards new gloves with limited data. Experiments with multiple sensing gloves show that AirGlove effectively generalizes the hand pose models to new glove designs and achieves a significant performance boost over the compared schemes.
title AirGlove: Exploring Egocentric 3D Hand Tracking and Appearance Generalization for Sensing Gloves
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.05159