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Morning Edition · Saturday, November 7, 2026Published at 1:25 AM EST · New York
FAH paper distills Meta's SAM 3D Body into real-time hand models as Meta's open vision models reach labs and wheelchairs
The arXiv paper fits MANO or MHR-Hand meshes and estimates contact without object geometry. Separately, a Pittsburgh wheelchair-arm project and a Berkeley Lab beamline pipeline run Meta's DINO and SAM models on their own hardware.
A new paper, "Fast and Accurate Hand Estimation in Pixels, Interaction and World Space" by Jinkun Cao, posted November 5, introduces FAH. FAH is a family of models built on the hand branch of Meta's SAM 3D Body and adapted through fine-tuni…
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