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Handwritten character recognition using depth information by Kinect

  • School of Computer Science and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology

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Abstract

It is quite constrained for us to use some other input devices to communicate with computers. In this paper, we integrate human-computer interaction technologies with handwritten Chinese character recognition strategies using depth image information provided by Kinect sensor to realize an unconstrained handwritten character recognition system, which only uses our hand as input device. We predefine several hand gestures as instructions, and for the recognition of these hand gestures, we calculate the contour and fingertips of the hand used for writing using depth image taken by Kinect. By mimicking the functionalities of the computer mouse only using our hands, we can write freely in the air and get the original character image. After Gaussian blurring and normalization, we adopt some classic handwritten character recognition schemes to accomplish the recognition task. Experiments show that the system gives a good result.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationMeasurement Technology and Engineering Researches in Industry
Pages883-887
Number of pages5
DOIs
StatePublished - 2013
Externally publishedYes
Event2013 2nd International Conference on Measurement, Instrumentation and Automation, ICMIA 2013 - Guilin, China
Duration: 23 Apr 201324 Apr 2013

Publication series

NameApplied Mechanics and Materials
Volume333-335
ISSN (Print)1660-9336
ISSN (Electronic)1662-7482

Conference

Conference2013 2nd International Conference on Measurement, Instrumentation and Automation, ICMIA 2013
Country/TerritoryChina
CityGuilin
Period23/04/1324/04/13

Keywords

  • Hand gesture recognition
  • Handwritten character recognition
  • Human-computer interaction
  • Kinect sensor

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