NVIDIA Releases RT-DETR Hand Detection v1.0 for Real-Time RGB Hand Localization

NVIDIA's RT-DETR Hand Detection v1.0 detects and localizes left and right hands in RGB images, outputting 2D bounding boxes with per-hand confidence scores in a single pass.

The model, built on RT-DETRv2-S with HGNetv2-S backbone and about 20M parameters, is intended as a region-of-interest stage for downstream 3D hand pose estimation and is exported to ONNX. The source describes it as for demonstration purposes rather than production use, runs on NVIDIA Lovelace GPUs under Linux, and is licensed under the NVIDIA Software and Model Evaluation License.