A matrix method for human hand gesture description

Author

Xiancan Liu ; Qiang Zhan

Author_Institution

Robot. Inst., Beihang Univ., Beijing, China

fYear

2013

fDate

25-28 May 2013

Firstpage

340

Lastpage

344

Abstract

In this paper, a method for human hand gesture description using matrix theory is presented. Based on human hand skeleton structure a hand model is built for describing the DOFs (degrees of freedom) distribution of all the finger joints. The posture vectors of five fingers are defined and the human hand gesture matrix consisting of five finger posture vectors is constructed. The change between two hand gestures is expressed by a hand gesture transformation matrix. A method to measure the angle values of finger joints is presented. Based on the measured angle values the five common human hand gestures and the change between two hand gestures are described by the matrix method.

Keywords

angular measurement; biomechanics; matrix algebra; degrees of freedom; finger joint DOF distribution; finger joint angle; finger posture vector; hand model; human hand gesture description; human hand gesture matrix; human hand skeleton structure; matrix method; matrix theory; Electronics packaging; Gesture recognition; Indexes; Joints; Thumb; Vectors; Gesture matrix; Human hand gesture; Posture vector; Transformation matrix;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Complex Medical Engineering (CME), 2013 ICME International Conference on

Conference_Location

Beijing

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-2970-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICCME.2013.6548266

Filename

6548266