filename : Dib18a.pdf entry : inproceedings conference : IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Workshops (3D Humans 2018), Salt Lake City, USA, June 18-22, 2018 pages : year : 2018 month : June title : Monocular RGB Hand Pose Inference from Unsupervised Refinable Nets subtitle : author : Endri Dibra and Silvan Melchior and Thomas Wolf and Ali Balkis and A. Cengiz {\"{O}}ztireli and Markus H. Gross booktitle : IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Workshops (3D Humans 2018) ISSN/ISBN : editor : publisher : {IEEE} Computer Society publ.place : volume : issue : language : english keywords : 3D hand pose estimation, deep networks, unlabelled data, semi supervised learning, unsupervised learning, CNNs, synthetic datasets abstract : CNN-based approaches are typically data-hungry, and when the task to solve is monocular RGB hand pose inference, obtaining real labelled training data is very hard to obtain. To overcome this, in this work we propose a new, large, realistically rendered, available hand dataset and a neural network trained on it, with the ability to refine itself to real unlabeled RGB images, given unlabeled corresponding depth images. We benchmark and validate our method on available and captured datasets, demonstrating that we strongly compare and even outperform state-of-the-art methods on tasks varying from 3D pose estimation to hand gesture recognition.