Patent ID: 11887396
Assignee: MERCEDES-BENZ GROUP AG
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 0:
1. A computerized method, comprising:
extracting a hand image of a hand in a vehicle image of a vehicle using a single point associated with the hand, wherein a size of the extracted hand image is fixed and predetermined, and wherein the single point is at a fixed position within the extracted hand image of a fixed and predetermined size;
obtaining a plurality of contextual images of the hand image based on the single point, wherein each of the plurality of contextual images is obtained by
selecting the single point at the fixed position in the hand image; and
cropping the hand image to a corresponding predefined size based on the single point as a center point;

processing each of the plurality of contextual images using a predefined number of layers of a neural network to obtain a plurality of contextual features associated with the hand image; and
identifying, using a classifier model, a hand pose associated with the hand based on the plurality of contextual features.