Recognizing Hand Gestures of a Dancer

A new and simple two-level decision making system has been designed for performing scale-, translation- and rotation-invariant recognition of various single-hand gestures of a dancer. The orientation filter is used at the first-level to generate a feature vector that is able to distinguish between s...

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Published inPattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence pp. 186 - 192
Main Authors Hariharan, Divya, Acharya, Tinku, Mitra, Sushmita
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published Berlin, Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg
SeriesLecture Notes in Computer Science
Subjects
feature extraction
Gesture recognition
orientation histogram
skeleton matching
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Summary:A new and simple two-level decision making system has been designed for performing scale-, translation- and rotation-invariant recognition of various single-hand gestures of a dancer. The orientation filter is used at the first-level to generate a feature vector that is able to distinguish between several gestures. At the second-level the silhouette of the different gestures is extracted, followed by the generation of the corresponding skeleton and the evaluation of the gradients at its end points. These gradients constitute the second feature set, for recognizing those gestures which remain to be identified at the first-level. An application has been provided in the domain of single-hand gestures of Bharatanatyam, an Indian classical dance form.
ISBN:3642217850
9783642217852
ISSN:0302-9743
1611-3349
DOI:10.1007/978-3-642-21786-9_32