Hand Pose Estimation

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Benchmarks archive 2025-07-28

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Datasets archive 2025-07-28

23 datasets whose archive record lists this task, ordered by the archive's paper count.

Subtasks archive 2025-07-28

1 subtask in the archive's task tree.

Parent tasks archive 2025-07-28

Most implemented papers archive 2025-07-28

30 shown of 103 papers with code (260 tagged with this task in all), ordered by repositories listed in the archive, not by stars (the archive holds no stars, so PwC's “Social” and “Latest” sorts cannot be reproduced). Papers without a page here are shown as plain text.

• Learning from Simulated and Unsupervised Images through Adversarial Training
  22 Dec 2016 9 repositories listed Syntology ran 2 of 8 samples · 6 unverified
  With recent progress in graphics, it has become more tractable to train models on synthetic images, potentially avoiding the need for expensive annotations.
• Learning to Estimate 3D Hand Pose from Single RGB Images
  3 May 2017 8 repositories listed
  Low-cost consumer depth cameras and deep learning have enabled reasonable 3D hand pose estimation from single depth images.
• V2V-PoseNet: Voxel-to-Voxel Prediction Network for Accurate 3D Hand and Human Pose Estimation from a Single Depth Map
  20 Nov 2017 5 repositories listed
  To overcome these weaknesses, we firstly cast the 3D hand and human pose estimation problem from a single depth map into a voxel-to-voxel prediction that uses a 3D voxelized grid and estimates the per-voxel likelihood…
• Weakly-Supervised Mesh-Convolutional Hand Reconstruction in the Wild
  4 Apr 2020 4 repositories listed Syntology ran 6 of 20 samples · 14 unverified
  We introduce a simple and effective network architecture for monocular 3D hand pose estimation consisting of an image encoder followed by a mesh convolutional decoder that is trained through a direct 3D hand mesh…
• HOnnotate: A method for 3D Annotation of Hand and Object Poses
  2 Jul 2019 4 repositories listed
  This dataset is currently made of 77, 558 frames, 68 sequences, 10 persons, and 10 objects.
• DeepPrior++: Improving Fast and Accurate 3D Hand Pose Estimation
  28 Aug 2017 4 repositories listed
  DeepPrior is a simple approach based on Deep Learning that predicts the joint 3D locations of a hand given a depth map.
• 3DGazeNet: Generalizing Gaze Estimation with Weak-Supervision from Synthetic Views
  6 Dec 2022 3 repositories listed
  To close the gap between image domains, we create a large-scale dataset of diverse faces with gaze pseudo-annotations, which we extract based on the 3D geometry of the scene, and design a multi-view supervision…
• SIMBA: Specific Identity Markers for Bone Age Assessment
  10 Jul 2020 3 repositories listed
  With this lack of available methods as motivation, we present SIMBA: Specific Identity Markers for Bone Age Assessment.
• Single-to-Dual-View Adaptation for Egocentric 3D Hand Pose Estimation
  7 Mar 2024 2 repositories listed Syntology ran 10 of 16 samples · 6 unverified · 16 pointer-only (licence)
  These two stereo constraints are used in a complementary manner to generate pseudo-labels, allowing reliable adaptation.
• MPT: Mesh Pre-Training with Transformers for Human Pose and Mesh Reconstruction
  24 Nov 2022 2 repositories listed
  Traditional methods of reconstructing 3D human pose and mesh from single images rely on paired image-mesh datasets, which can be difficult and expensive to obtain.
• ROFT: Real-Time Optical Flow-Aided 6D Object Pose and Velocity Tracking
  6 Nov 2021 2 repositories listed
  In this work, we introduce ROFT, a Kalman filtering approach for 6D object pose and velocity tracking from a stream of RGB-D images.
• PeCLR: Self-Supervised 3D Hand Pose Estimation from monocular RGB via Equivariant Contrastive Learning
  10 Jun 2021 2 repositories listed
  Encouraged by the success of contrastive learning on image classification tasks, we propose a new self-supervised method for the structured regression task of 3D hand pose estimation.
• DexYCB: A Benchmark for Capturing Hand Grasping of Objects
  9 Apr 2021 2 repositories listed
  We introduce DexYCB, a new dataset for capturing hand grasping of objects.
• HandTailor: Towards High-Precision Monocular 3D Hand Recovery
  18 Feb 2021 2 repositories listed
  3D hand pose estimation and shape recovery are challenging tasks in computer vision.
• InterHand2.6M: A Dataset and Baseline for 3D Interacting Hand Pose Estimation from a Single RGB Image
  21 Aug 2020 2 repositories listed
  Therefore, we firstly propose (1) a large-scale dataset, InterHand2.
• Whole-Body Human Pose Estimation in the Wild
  23 Jul 2020 2 repositories listed
  This paper investigates the task of 2D human whole-body pose estimation, which aims to localize dense landmarks on the entire human body including face, hands, body, and feet.
• A2J: Anchor-to-Joint Regression Network for 3D Articulated Pose Estimation from a Single Depth Image
  27 Aug 2019 2 repositories listed Syntology ran 6 of 9 samples · 3 unverified
  For 3D hand and body pose estimation task in depth image, a novel anchor-based approach termed Anchor-to-Joint regression network (A2J) with the end-to-end learning ability is proposed.
• 3D Hand Shape and Pose Estimation from a Single RGB Image
  3 Mar 2019 2 repositories listed
  This work addresses a novel and challenging problem of estimating the full 3D hand shape and pose from a single RGB image.
• End-to-end Hand Mesh Recovery from a Monocular RGB Image
  25 Feb 2019 2 repositories listed
  In this paper, we present a HAnd Mesh Recovery (HAMR) framework to tackle the problem of reconstructing the full 3D mesh of a human hand from a single RGB image.
• Learning Pose Specific Representations by Predicting Different Views
  10 Apr 2018 2 repositories listed
  To exploit this observation, we train a model that -- given input from one view -- estimates a latent representation, which is trained to be predictive for the appearance of the object when captured from another…
• Monocular 3D Hand Pose Estimation with Implicit Camera Alignment
  10 Jun 2025 1 repository listed
  Estimating the 3D hand articulation from a single color image is a continuously investigated problem with applications in Augmented Reality (AR), Virtual Reality (VR), Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), and robotics.
• Analyzing the Synthetic-to-Real Domain Gap in 3D Hand Pose Estimation
  25 Mar 2025 1 repository listed Syntology ran 6 of 6 samples · 0 unverified · 6 pointer-only (licence)
  We demonstrate that synthetic hand data can achieve the same level of accuracy as real data when integrating our identified components, paving the path to use synthetic data alone for hand pose estimation.
• SiMHand: Mining Similar Hands for Large-Scale 3D Hand Pose Pre-training
  21 Feb 2025 1 repository listed Syntology ran 1 of 1 samples · 0 unverified · 1 pointer-only (licence)
  We present a framework for pre-training of 3D hand pose estimation from in-the-wild hand images sharing with similar hand characteristics, dubbed SimHand.
• EgoHand: Ego-centric Hand Pose Estimation and Gesture Recognition with Head-mounted Millimeter-wave Radar and IMUs
  23 Jan 2025 1 repository listed
  Recent advanced Virtual Reality (VR) headsets, such as the Apple Vision Pro, employ bottom-facing cameras to detect hand gestures and inputs, which offers users significant convenience in VR interactions.
• emg2pose: A Large and Diverse Benchmark for Surface Electromyographic Hand Pose Estimation
  2 Dec 2024 1 repository listed Syntology ran 1 of 3 samples · 2 unverified · 3 pointer-only (licence)
  Hands are the primary means through which humans interact with the world.
• WiLoR: End-to-end 3D Hand Localization and Reconstruction in-the-wild
  18 Sep 2024 1 repository listed
  In recent years, 3D hand pose estimation methods have garnered significant attention due to their extensive applications in human-computer interaction, virtual reality, and robotics.
• SHARP: Segmentation of Hands and Arms by Range using Pseudo-Depth for Enhanced Egocentric 3D Hand Pose Estimation and Action Recognition
  19 Aug 2024 1 repository listed
  The 3D hand pose, together with information from object detection, is processed by a transformer-based action recognition network, resulting in an accuracy of 91.
• HandDAGT: A Denoising Adaptive Graph Transformer for 3D Hand Pose Estimation
  30 Jul 2024 1 repository listed
  To address this challenge, this paper proposes the Denoising Adaptive Graph Transformer, HandDAGT, for hand pose estimation.
• HO-Cap: A Capture System and Dataset for 3D Reconstruction and Pose Tracking of Hand-Object Interaction
  10 Jun 2024 1 repository listed
  We introduce a data capture system and a new dataset, HO-Cap, for 3D reconstruction and pose tracking of hands and objects in videos.
• In My Perspective, In My Hands: Accurate Egocentric 2D Hand Pose and Action Recognition
  14 Apr 2024 1 repository listed Syntology ran 4 of 5 samples · 1 unverified · 5 pointer-only (licence)
  Our study aims to fill this research gap by exploring the field of 2D hand pose estimation for egocentric action recognition, making two contributions.

Syntology lines on 8 of the papers shown; no Syntology record for the others (a paper without an arXiv id cannot be joined to the graph, and absence from the graph layer is not a recorded non-run). “Ran” means the sample executed on a synthesized fixture, not that the paper's result was reproduced. Read from the graph 2026-09-24.