Gesture Recognition using Skeleton Data with Weighted Dynamic Time Warping

Sait Celebi, Talha T. Temiz, Ali S. Aydin, Tarik Arici

2013

Abstract

With Microsoft’s launch of Kinect in 2010, and release of Kinect SDK in 2011, numerous applications and research projects exploring new ways in human-computer interaction have been enabled. Gesture recognition is a technology often used in human-computer interaction applications. Dynamic time warping (DTW) is a template matching algorithm and is one of the techniques used in gesture recognition. To recognize a gesture, DTW warps a time sequence of joint positions to reference time sequences and produces a similarity value. However, all body joints are not equally important in computing the similarity of two sequences. We propose a weighted DTW method that weights joints by optimizing a discriminant ratio. Finally, we demonstrate the recognition performance of our proposed weighted DTW with respect to the conventional DTW and state-ofthe-art.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Celebi S., Temiz T., Aydin A. and Arici T. (2013). Gesture Recognition using Skeleton Data with Weighted Dynamic Time Warping . In Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 1: VISAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2013) ISBN 978-989-8565-47-1, pages 620-625. DOI: 10.5220/0004217606200625

in Bibtex Style

@conference{visapp13,
author={Sait Celebi and Talha T. Temiz and Ali S. Aydin and Tarik Arici},
title={Gesture Recognition using Skeleton Data with Weighted Dynamic Time Warping},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 1: VISAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2013)},
year={2013},
pages={620-625},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004217606200625},
isbn={978-989-8565-47-1},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 1: VISAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2013)
TI - Gesture Recognition using Skeleton Data with Weighted Dynamic Time Warping
SN - 978-989-8565-47-1
AU - Celebi S.
AU - Temiz T.
AU - Aydin A.
AU - Arici T.
PY - 2013
SP - 620
EP - 625
DO - 10.5220/0004217606200625