VISUAL HAND MOVEMENTS FOR MACHINE CONTROL

Sanjay Kumar, Dinesh Kant Kumar, Arun Sharma

2004

Abstract

A new technique for automated classification of human hand gestures for robotics and computer control applications is presented. It uses view-based approach for representation, and statistical technique for classification. This approach uses a cumulative image-difference technique where the time between the sequences of images is implicitly captured in the representation of action. This results in the construction of Temporal History Templates (THTs). These THT’s are used to compute the 7 Hu image moments that are invariant to scale, rotation and translation. The recognition criterion is established using K-nearest neighbor (K-NN) mahalanobis distance. The preliminary experiments show that such a system can classify human hand gestures with a classification accuracy of 92%. Our research has been carried on in the robotics framework. The overall goal of our research is to test for accuracy of the recognition of hand gestures using this computationally inexpensive way of dimensionality-reduced representation of gestures for its suitability for robotics.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Kumar S., Kumar D. and Sharma A. (2004). VISUAL HAND MOVEMENTS FOR MACHINE CONTROL . In Proceedings of the First International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - Volume 2: ICINCO, ISBN 972-8865-12-0, pages 215-220. DOI: 10.5220/0001147102150220

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icinco04,
author={Sanjay Kumar and Dinesh Kant Kumar and Arun Sharma},
title={VISUAL HAND MOVEMENTS FOR MACHINE CONTROL},
booktitle={Proceedings of the First International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - Volume 2: ICINCO,},
year={2004},
pages={215-220},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001147102150220},
isbn={972-8865-12-0},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the First International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - Volume 2: ICINCO,
TI - VISUAL HAND MOVEMENTS FOR MACHINE CONTROL
SN - 972-8865-12-0
AU - Kumar S.
AU - Kumar D.
AU - Sharma A.
PY - 2004
SP - 215
EP - 220
DO - 10.5220/0001147102150220