• DocumentCode
    2482943
  • Title

    Real time appearance based hand tracking

  • Author

    Donoser, Michael ; Bischof, Horst

  • Author_Institution
    Inst. for Comput. Graphics & Vision, Graz Univ. of Technol., Graz
  • fYear
    2008
  • fDate
    8-11 Dec. 2008
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    4
  • Abstract
    This paper introduces a real-time method for tracking hands through image sequences. Our method combines efficiently calculated color likelihood maps with a modified version of the maximally stable extremal region (MSER)-tracker. The proposed algorithm allows to robustly track hands through image sequences and additionally provides accurate hand segmentations per frame. Experimental evaluation proves the high accuracy of the segmentation results and a first application for human-computer interaction is presented.
  • Keywords
    human computer interaction; image colour analysis; image sequences; target tracking; color likelihood maps; hand tracking; human-computer interaction; image sequences; maximally stable extremal region tracker; real-time method; Application software; Color; Filtering; Gaussian distribution; Image segmentation; Image sequences; Particle tracking; Probability; Robustness; State-space methods;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Pattern Recognition, 2008. ICPR 2008. 19th International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Tampa, FL
  • ISSN
    1051-4651
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-2174-9
  • Electronic_ISBN
    1051-4651
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ICPR.2008.4761485
  • Filename
    4761485