A hand pose tracking benchmark from stereo matching

Abstract

In this paper we establish a long-term 3D hand pose tracking benchmark1. It contains 18,000 stereo image pairs as well as the ground-truth 3D positions of palm and finger joints from different scenarios. Meanwhile, to accurately segment hand from stereo images, we propose a novel stereo-based hand segmentation and depth estimation algorithm specially tailored for hand tracking here. The experiments indicate the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm by demonstrating that its tracking performance is comparable to the use of an active depth sensor under various of challenging scenarios.