Title :
Gesture recognition by using colored gloves
Author :
Iwai, Yoshio ; Watanabe, Ken ; Yagi, Yasushi ; Yachida, Masahiko
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Syst. Eng., Osaka Univ., Japan
Abstract :
Describes a method to recognize hand gestures from a monocular image in real time. We use colored gloves to detect specific region of the hand quickly. By using this method, we can treat easily the occlusion problem due to color information. Hand gestures are quickly recognized by the decision tree made from the image features automatically by our proposed method. There are other pattern recognition methods using image features like the nearest-neighbor method. But it is better for computation time to use the decision tree because the decision tree uses only a few selected important features
Keywords :
decision theory; feature extraction; image colour analysis; image segmentation; trees (mathematics); color information; colored gloves; decision tree; gesture recognition; monocular image; occlusion problem; Current measurement; Data gloves; Decision trees; Fingers; Image recognition; Position measurement; Systems engineering and theory; Thumb; Wrist; Yagi-Uda antennas;
Conference_Titel :
Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, 1996., IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Beijing
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-3280-6
DOI :
10.1109/ICSMC.1996.569743