Technical University of Darmstadt 1 article published in JoVE Behavior Estimation of Contact Regions Between Hands and Objects During Human Multi-Digit Grasping Frieder Hartmann1, Guido Maiello1, Constantin A. Rothkopf2, Roland W. Fleming1,3 1Department of Experimental Psychology, Justus Liebig University Giessen, 2Institute of Psychology & Centre for Cognitive Science, Technical University of Darmstadt, 3Centre for Mind, Brain and Behaviour (CMBB), University of Marburg and Justus Liebig University Giessen When we grasp an object, multiple regions of the fingers and hand typically make contact with the object's surface. Reconstructing such contact regions is challenging. Here, we present a method for approximately estimating the contact regions by combining marker-based motion capture with existing deep learning-based hand mesh reconstruction.
