Hand posture recognition using hidden conditional random fields

Te Cheng Liu*, Ko Chih Wang, Augustine Tsai, Chieh Chih Wang

*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Body-language understanding is essential to human robot interaction, and hand posture recognition is one of the most important components in a body-language recognition system. The existing hand posture recognition approaches based on robust local features such as SIFT can be invariant to background noise and in-plane rotation. However the ignorance of the relationships among local features is a fundamental issue. The part-based models argue that objects of the same category share the same part-structure which consists of parts and relationships among parts. In this paper, a discriminative partbased model, Hidden Conditional Random Fields (HCRFs), is used to recognize hand postures. Although the existing global locations of features have been used to consider large scale dependency among parts in the HCRFs framework, the results are not invariant to in-plane rotation. New features by the distance to the image center are proposed to encode the global relationship as well as to perform in-plane rotationinvariant recognition. The experimental results demonstrate that the proposed approach is in-plane rotation-invariant and out performs the approach using Ada Boost with SIFT.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2009 IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics, AIM 2009
Pages1828-1833
Number of pages6
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2009
Externally publishedYes
Event2009 IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics, AIM 2009 - Singapore, Singapore
Duration: 2009 Jul 142009 Jul 17

Publication series

NameIEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics, AIM

Other

Other2009 IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics, AIM 2009
Country/TerritorySingapore
CitySingapore
Period2009/07/142009/07/17

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Software
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering
  • Control and Systems Engineering
  • Computer Science Applications

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