Development of hand posture recognition system for finger gaming robot

Author

Chyi-Yeu Lin ; Li-Wen Chuang ; Chun-Chia Huang ; Ke-Jeng Lin ; Chin-Shyurng Fahn

Author_Institution

Dept. of Mech. Eng., Nat. Taiwan Univ. of Sci. & Technol. Taipei, Taipei, Taiwan

fYear

2013

fDate

May 31 2013-June 2 2013

Firstpage

86

Lastpage

91

Abstract

Having a drinking game during a meal or friendly gathering is one of the unique dining practices among the Chinese. Our team has developed a fully automated finger gaming robot, which may bring an all new technological entertainment experience to the dining industry. According to the rules of finger gaming, winning or losing will depend on the combination of the numbers called out and the hand gestures made by both parties. The key to successfully developing a fully autonomous finger gaming robot is in how to make the robot quickly and accurately recognize the hand gesture of the other player. The goal of this research is to develop a hand gesture recognition system for use on a finger gaming robot by finding the optimum quantity and position of cameras as well as by developing an image analysis algorithm for quickly recognizing the finger flexing positions.

Keywords

cameras; dexterous manipulators; entertainment; gesture recognition; robot vision; service robots; Chinese dining practice; camera position; camera quantity; dining industry; drinking game; finger flexing position recognition; finger gaming robot; hand gesture; hand posture recognition system; image analysis algorithm; technological entertainment experience; Games; Image color analysis; Information filtering; Robot sensing systems; Thumb; arm; finger gaming robot; hand posture recognition; robot hand;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Advanced Robotics and Intelligent Systems (ARIS), 2013 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Tainan

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-0100-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ARIS.2013.6573540

Filename

6573540