A robust gesture recognition using hand local data and skeleton trajectory

E. Escobedo-Cardenas, G. Camara-Chavez

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Abstract

In this paper, we propose a new approach for dynamic hand gesture recognition using intensity, depth and skeleton joint data captured by KinectTM sensor. The proposed approach integrates global and local information of a dynamic gesture. First, we represent the skeleton 3D trajectory in spherical coordinates. Then, we extract the key frames corresponding to the points with more angular and distance difference. In each key frame, we calculate the spherical distance from the hands, wrists and elbows to the shoulder center, also we record the hands position changes to obtain the global information. Finally, we segment the hands and use SIFT descriptor on intensity and depth data. Then, Bag of Visual Words (BOW) approach is used to extract local information. The system was tested with the ChaLearn 2013 gesture dataset and our own Brazilian Sign Language dataset, achieving an accuracy of 88.39% and 98.28%, respectively.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2015 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP 2015 - Proceedings
PublisherIEEE Computer Society
Pages1240-1244
Number of pages5
ISBN (Electronic)9781479983391
DOIs
StatePublished - 9 Dec 2015
Externally publishedYes
EventIEEE International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP 2015 - Quebec City, Canada
Duration: 27 Sep 201530 Sep 2015

Publication series

NameProceedings - International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP
Volume2015-December
ISSN (Print)1522-4880

Conference

ConferenceIEEE International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP 2015
Country/TerritoryCanada
CityQuebec City
Period27/09/1530/09/15

Keywords

  • global and local information
  • hand gesture recognition
  • key frames
  • spherical coordinate system

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