Static hand gesture recognition based on finger root-center-angle and length weighted Mahalanobis distance

Xinghao Chen; Chenbo Shi; Bo Liu

doi:10.1117/12.2228811

29 April 2016 Static hand gesture recognition based on finger root-center-angle and length weighted Mahalanobis distance

Xinghao Chen, Chenbo Shi, Bo Liu

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Proceedings Volume 9897, Real-Time Image and Video Processing 2016; 98970U (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2228811
Event: SPIE Photonics Europe, 2016, Brussels, Belgium

Abstract

Static hand gesture recognition (HGR) has drawn increasing attention in computer vision and human-computer interaction (HCI) recently because of its great potential. However, HGR is a challenging problem due to the variations of gestures. In this paper, we present a new framework for static hand gesture recognition. Firstly, the key joints of the hand, including the palm center, the fingertips and finger roots, are located. Secondly, we propose novel and discriminative features called root-center-angles to alleviate the influence of the variations of gestures. Thirdly, we design a distance metric called finger length weighted Mahalanobis distance (FLWMD) to measure the dissimilarity of the hand gestures. Experiments demonstrate the accuracy, efficiency and robustness of our proposed HGR framework.

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Xinghao Chen, Chenbo Shi, and Bo Liu "Static hand gesture recognition based on finger root-center-angle and length weighted Mahalanobis distance", Proc. SPIE 9897, Real-Time Image and Video Processing 2016, 98970U (29 April 2016); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2228811

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