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Stereo Hand-Object Reconstruction for Human-to-Robot Handover

Pang, Yik Lung
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Xompero, Alessio
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Oh, Changjae
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2025
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters

Jointly estimating hand and object shape facilitates the grasping task in human-to-robot handovers. Relying on handcrafted prior knowledge about the geometric structure of the object fails when generalising to unseen objects, and depth sensors fail to detect transparent objects such as drinking glasses. In this work, we propose a method for hand-object reconstruction that combines single-view reconstructions probabilistically to form a coherent stereo reconstruction. We learn 3D shape priors from a large synthetic hand-object dataset, and use RGB inputs to better capture transparent objects. We show that our method reduces the object Chamfer distance compared to existing RGB based hand-object reconstruction methods on single view and stereo settings. We process the reconstructed hand-object shape with a projection-based outlier removal step and use the output to guide a human-to-robot handover pipeline with wide-baseline stereo RGB cameras. Our hand-object reconstruction enables a robot to successfully receive a diverse range of household objects from the human.

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research article
DOI
10.1109/LRA.2025.3562790
Scopus ID

2-s2.0-105003372859

Author(s)
Pang, Yik Lung

Queen Mary University of London

Xompero, Alessio

Queen Mary University of London

Oh, Changjae

Queen Mary University of London

Cavallaro, Andrea  

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

Date Issued

2025

Published in
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters
Subjects

deep learning for visual perception

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Human-robot collaboration

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manipulation

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perception for grasping

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physical human-robot interaction

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