Title :
Dynamic gesture recognition for next generation home multimedia
Author :
Vanco, Marek ; Minarik, Ivan ; Rozinaj, Gregor
Author_Institution :
Inst. of Telecommun., Slovak Univ. of Technol. in Bratislava, Bratislava, Slovakia
Abstract :
This article discusses an alternative use of the gesture recognition algorithm designed originally for touch interfaces. It is shown that the algorithm is employed in a touch-less environment and provides considerable results in terms of gesture recognition accuracy. The environment makes use of the Kinect motion sensor to obtain gesture data which are processed by the Incremental Recognition algorithm. The conducted experiments have shown an overall recognition rate of over 91%.
Keywords :
gesture recognition; multimedia systems; Kinect motion sensor; dynamic gesture recognition; incremental recognition algorithm; next generation home multimedia; touch interface; touch-less environment; Accuracy; Algorithm design and analysis; Cameras; Gesture recognition; Hardware; Heuristic algorithms; Hidden Markov models; Dynamic gestures; Incremental Recognition Algorithm; Microsoft Kinect;
Conference_Titel :
ELMAR, 2013 55th International Symposium
Conference_Location :
Zadar
Print_ISBN :
978-953-7044-14-5