Glove2Hand: Synthesizing Natural Hand-Object Interaction from Multi-Modal Sensing Gloves

Xinyu Zhang, Ziyi Kou, Chuan Qin, Mia Huang, Ergys Ristani, Ankit Kumar, Lele Chen, Kun He, Abdeslam Boularias, Li Guan; Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2026, pp. 1829-1840

Understanding hand-object interaction (HOI) is fundamental to computer vision, robotics, and AR/VR. However, conventional hand videos often lack essential physical information, such as contact forces and motion dynamics, and are prone to frequent occlusions. To address these challenges, we present Glove2Hand, a framework that translates multi-modal sensing glove data in HOI videos into photorealistic bare-hand representations, while faithfully preserving the underlying physical interaction dynamics. We introduce a novel 3D Gaussian hand model that ensures both temporal and multi-view rendering consistency. The rendered hand is seamlessly integrated into the scene using a diffusion-based hand restorer, which effectively handles complex hand-object interactions and non-rigid deformations. Leveraging Glove2Hand, we introduce HandSense, the first multi-modal HOI dataset featuring multi-view bare-hand videos with synchronized tactile and IMU signals. We demonstrate that HandSense significantly enhances downstream bare-hand applications, including video-based contact estimation and hand tracking under severe occlusion.