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A real-time hand gesture recognition algorithm for an embedded system

  • Harbin Institute of Technology Shenzhen

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Abstract

With the development of technology, intelligent robots will play an important role in our daily life. More and more intelligent robots based on embedded systems are used for security, detection, service, etc. Interaction with human is an important part of intelligent robots. Hand gesture is a convenient and fast method for human-robot interactions. In this paper, we propose a method which is suitable to detect hand area and recognize hand gestures for video stream on an embedded system. In order to make the recognition process run in real-time, the proposed method is based on Gaussian Mixture Model (GMM) which not only helps to build the skin model but also helps to classify the gestures. An embedded system with our algorithm is almost the same with a PC(Intel Core i3 500, 4G DDR3) real-time performance. At the same time, the average recognition rate is more than 75%. Both the embedded system and the real time hand gesture recognition algorithm is used to control an intelligent robot.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2014 IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics and Automation, IEEE ICMA 2014
PublisherIEEE Computer Society
Pages901-905
Number of pages5
ISBN (Print)9781479939787
DOIs
StatePublished - 2014
Externally publishedYes
Event11th IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics and Automation, IEEE ICMA 2014 - Tianjin, China
Duration: 3 Aug 20146 Aug 2014

Publication series

Name2014 IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics and Automation, IEEE ICMA 2014

Conference

Conference11th IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics and Automation, IEEE ICMA 2014
Country/TerritoryChina
CityTianjin
Period3/08/146/08/14

Keywords

  • Gaussian mixture model
  • embedded system
  • hand gesture recognition

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