3D articulated hand tracking based on behavioral model

  • Authors:
  • Zhiquan Feng;Bo Yang;Yi Li;Haokui Tang;Yanwei Zheng;Minming Zhang;Zhigeng Pan

  • Affiliations:
  • School of Information Science and Engineering, University of Jinan, Jinan, P.R. China;School of Information Science and Engineering, University of Jinan, Jinan, P.R. China;School of Control Science and Engineering, University of Jinan, Jinan, P.R. China;School of Information Science and Engineering, University of Jinan, Jinan, P.R. China;School of Information Science and Engineering, University of Jinan, Jinan, P.R. China;State Key Laboratory of CAD&CG, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, P.R. China;Hangzhou normal university, Hangzhou, P.R. China, Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Network Based Intelligent Computing, Jinan, P.R. China

  • Venue:
  • Transactions on Edutainment VIII
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

Taken it into consideration that human has a great deal of experiences and knowledge of hand postures, if these operating skills of postures are applied to HCI, the simple and convenient human-computer interface can be expected. In fact, tracking, recognition and interaction based on 3D freehand are a part of the cores in our virtual assembly system, but it is a challenging task to track 3D freehand in real-time because of high dimensionality of 3D full hand model. A novel framework for 3D freehand tracking is put forward in this paper. Firstly, we model and investigate this problem under our virtual assembly system (VAS), so as to decrease the arbitrariness and complexity of this issue. Secondly, we put emphasis on building cognitive and behavioral model (CBM) for users in VAS. Thirdly, we research on the way to track 3D freehand based on CBM. The main contributions of this paper are that we propose a new CBM, TPTM model, provide a way to connect users and computer for effective interaction, and present a real-time freehand tracking algorithm. Based on TPTM model, the prediction, the number of particles, the way and scope of sampling, are optimized. TPTM model not only explain behavioral characteristics for users but also can effectively guide the design of freehand tracking algorithm. TPTM model also provides a data structure that can facilitate the implementation of the tracking algorithm. Our experimental results show that the proposed approach raises the quality of each sampled particle or avoid sampling "poor" particles which appear with low probability in each frame, and it tracks 3D freehand in real-time with high accuracy. The number of the drawn particles is reduced up to 5 and the tracking speed increase up to 81 ms per frame.