3-D Hand Pose Estimation from Kinect's Point Cloud Using Appearance Matching

no code implementations • 7 Apr 2016 • Pasquale Coscia, Francesco A. N. Palmieri, Francesco Castaldo, Alberto Cavallo

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.

Hand Pose Estimation

Knowledge Transfer for Scene-specific Motion Prediction

no code implementations • 22 Mar 2016 • Lamberto Ballan, Francesco Castaldo, Alexandre Alahi, Francesco Palmieri, Silvio Savarese

When given a single frame of the video, humans can not only interpret the content of the scene, but also they are able to forecast the near future.

motion prediction Trajectory Prediction +1

Semantic Cross-View Matching

no code implementations • 31 Oct 2015 • Francesco Castaldo, Amir Zamir, Roland Angst, Francesco Palmieri, Silvio Savarese

In this paper, we therefore explore this idea and propose an automatic method for detecting and representing the semantic information of an RGB image with the goal of performing cross-view matching with a (non-RGB) geographic information system (GIS).