Diver Interest via Pointing: Human-Directed Object Inspection for AUVs

Chelsey Edge,Junaed Sattar,Chelsey Edge,Junaed Sattar

In this paper, we present the Diver Interest via Pointing (DIP) algorithm, a highly modular method for conveying a diver's area of interest to an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) using pointing gestures for underwater humanrobot collaborative tasks. DIP uses a single monocular camera and exploits human body pose, even with complete dive gear, to extract underwater human pointing gesture poses a...