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A Novel Human-Robot Interaction Segmentation: Gesture-Guided Object Segmentation Based on Deep Learning

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Ying Zhang
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Yiyue Gao
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Maoliang Yin
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Yicun Jia
杨亚娜 (Yana Yang)
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Cuihua Zhang
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Xi Luo
华长春 (Changchun Hua)
DOI:10.1109/LRA.2026.3656772delete
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Abstract

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Interactive segmentation, a key branch of human-robot interaction (HRI), bridges human commands to object segmentation, enabling effective robot-scene interaction. However, existing interactive segmentation solutions have significant applicability limitations, particularly when dealing with unknown objects. To this end, this letter proposes a novel deep learning-based interactive segmentation framework by simulating the interaction between human intention and environmental elements, the Pointing Guided Segmentation Network (PGSN), to overcome traditional geometric constraints and establish a direct mapping between pointing gestures and targets. The presented PGSN features a collaborative two-module architecture, with the main contributions: 1) the establishment of direct gesture-to-target mapping and the replacement of conventional click-based interaction methods with pointing gestures; 2) a gesture-pointing-based region prediction module for generating target heatmap; and 3) reconstructed YouRefIt and the self-built PointLab dataset for evaluating gesture-guided segmentation. The effectiveness and feasibility of our proposed method are extensively evaluated on both YouRefIt* and self-built PointLab datasets, achieving an 87.7% accuracy.
Keywords:
Human-robot interaction
interactive object segmentation
deep learning
pointing gesture
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IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters
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yanshan university
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