A method of real-time gesture recognition for interactive systems

Author

Watanabe, Takahiro ; Lee, Chil-Woo ; Tsukamoto, Akitoshi ; Yachida, Masahiko

Author_Institution

Lab. of Image Inf. Sci. & Technol., Osaka, Japan

Volume

3

fYear

1996

fDate

25-29 Aug 1996

Firstpage

473

Abstract

This paper presents a new method for real-time gesture recognition and its application. The key idea of the method is that we use multiple template models for specific feature parts of body such as arms and estimate the pose of this part by considering similarities of an input image to the models. To calculate the similarity for the part, we developed maskable template model (MTM) with which both masking and template matching are done simultaneously. As an application of this method, we realize a real-time interactive system, gesture game system, which can activate the characters of video game by gestures in real-time

Keywords

image recognition; interactive systems; real-time systems; user interfaces; gesture game system; interactive systems; maskable template model; multiple template models; real-time gesture recognition; real-time interactive system; video game characters; Arm; Biological system modeling; Character recognition; Games; Humans; Image recognition; Interactive systems; Joints; Laboratories; Real time systems;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Pattern Recognition, 1996., Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Vienna

ISSN

1051-4651

Print_ISBN

0-8186-7282-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICPR.1996.546992

Filename

546992