“…The recognition of operator hand poses in an HRC-based inspection system is fast and robust and can include the classification of hand pose sensing images of numeric symbols combined with non-numeric expressions. The utilization of hand gesture recognition to analyze and then classify a person's hand gestures or hand poses has been achieved in many fields, (11)(12)(13)(14)(15) such as the robotic handling of smart materials, (11) the recognition of the intention of hand gestures, (12) and the recognition of the identity and emotion associated with hand gestures. (13,14) Studies on the use of hand gesture recognition in object inspections are extremely rare.…”