AVI-HT: Adaptive Vision-IMU Fusion for 3D Hand Tracking

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Main Authors: Kou, Ziyi, Kumar, Ankit, Huang, Mia, Niehues, Taylor, Mehta, Vatsal, Ristani, Ergys, Guan, Li
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author Kou, Ziyi
Kumar, Ankit
Huang, Mia
Niehues, Taylor
Mehta, Vatsal
Ristani, Ergys
Guan, Li
author_facet Kou, Ziyi
Kumar, Ankit
Huang, Mia
Niehues, Taylor
Mehta, Vatsal
Ristani, Ergys
Guan, Li
contents We present AVI-HT, an adaptive visual-IMU fusion approach for tracking 3D hand poses by jointly modeling the egocentric image with on-glove 6-DoF IMU signals. AVI-HT achieves significantly improved accuracy and availability, particularly in hand-object interaction (HOI) scenarios involving heavy visual occlusion. Two complementary ingredients underpin its success: (1) synchronized multi-modal training data pairing on-body vision-IMU sensor streams with ground-truth 3D hand poses from a motion-capture system, and (2) a cross-sensor deep attention mechanism that adaptively modulates the trust assigned to the vision and individual IMU sensors. To evaluate AVI-HT in real-world settings, we conduct extensive experiments on our DexGloveHOI dataset that consists of 100K+ pairwise vision-IMU samples with synchronized 3D annotated poses, in which users manipulate a variety of objects during daily tasks. We compare against multiple single- and multi-modal tracking approaches under two hand models (UmeTrack, MANO). The results show that AVI-HT reduces mean keypoint error by 16.1% and its wrist-aligned variant by 24.2% over the baselines. Ablation studies further reveal the per-finger contribution of IMU sensors across activity types, and the model's sensitivity to IMU noise and temporal misalignment in vision-IMU fusion.
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spellingShingle AVI-HT: Adaptive Vision-IMU Fusion for 3D Hand Tracking
Kou, Ziyi
Kumar, Ankit
Huang, Mia
Niehues, Taylor
Mehta, Vatsal
Ristani, Ergys
Guan, Li
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
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We present AVI-HT, an adaptive visual-IMU fusion approach for tracking 3D hand poses by jointly modeling the egocentric image with on-glove 6-DoF IMU signals. AVI-HT achieves significantly improved accuracy and availability, particularly in hand-object interaction (HOI) scenarios involving heavy visual occlusion. Two complementary ingredients underpin its success: (1) synchronized multi-modal training data pairing on-body vision-IMU sensor streams with ground-truth 3D hand poses from a motion-capture system, and (2) a cross-sensor deep attention mechanism that adaptively modulates the trust assigned to the vision and individual IMU sensors. To evaluate AVI-HT in real-world settings, we conduct extensive experiments on our DexGloveHOI dataset that consists of 100K+ pairwise vision-IMU samples with synchronized 3D annotated poses, in which users manipulate a variety of objects during daily tasks. We compare against multiple single- and multi-modal tracking approaches under two hand models (UmeTrack, MANO). The results show that AVI-HT reduces mean keypoint error by 16.1% and its wrist-aligned variant by 24.2% over the baselines. Ablation studies further reveal the per-finger contribution of IMU sensors across activity types, and the model's sensitivity to IMU noise and temporal misalignment in vision-IMU fusion.
title AVI-HT: Adaptive Vision-IMU Fusion for 3D Hand Tracking
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Robotics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.21714