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arxiv: 2006.10214 · v1 · pith:J4RU3MJHnew · submitted 2020-06-18 · 💻 cs.CV

MediaPipe Hands: On-device Real-time Hand Tracking

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We present a real-time on-device hand tracking pipeline that predicts hand skeleton from single RGB camera for AR/VR applications. The pipeline consists of two models: 1) a palm detector, 2) a hand landmark model. It's implemented via MediaPipe, a framework for building cross-platform ML solutions. The proposed model and pipeline architecture demonstrates real-time inference speed on mobile GPUs and high prediction quality. MediaPipe Hands is open sourced at https://mediapipe.dev.

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