Gesture recognition by stereo vision

  • Authors:
  • J. S. Prasad;Advitiya Saxena;Nilesh Javar;K. B. Kaushik;P. Chakraborty;G. C. Nandi

  • Affiliations:
  • Indian Institute of Information Technology, Allahabad;Indian Institute of Information Technology, Allahabad;Indian Institute of Information Technology, Allahabad;Indian Institute of Information Technology, Allahabad;Indian Institute of Information Technology, Allahabad;Indian Institute of Information Technology, Allahabad

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the First International Conference on Intelligent Interactive Technologies and Multimedia
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

Recently a lot of hand held devices have been commercially employed, but they suffer from the problems such as un-natural interaction and comfort of use. The computer vision based HCI (Human Computer Interaction) is an effective and straightforward method. We have used a new effective gesture recognition method with the stereo vision technique. The stereoscopic system is implemented using two standard (VGA) webcams. The webcams are calibrated using chessboard pattern and subsequently the rectified images, disparity and depth images are established. We applied two types of techniques and compared outcome on the basis of feature extraction and gesture recognition. The first technique is block matching and the second method utilizes three dimensional position, velocity, acceleration and orientation features with Euclidean distance metrics. To extract features from three dimensional information is computationally complex process but provides better recognition results. Our experimentation with above mentioned approaches provided far better results than gesture recognition techniques using one webcam. Hence stereo vision based system can be used for real-time applications in a simple and cost effective way.