Device Independence and Extensibility in Gesture Recognition

  • Authors:
  • Jacob Eisenstein;Shahram Ghandeharizadeh;Leana Golubchik;Cyrus Shahabi;Donghui Yan;Roger Zimmermann

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • VR '03 Proceedings of the IEEE Virtual Reality 2003
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

Gesture recognition techniques often suffer from beinghighly device-dependent and hard to extend. If a system istrained using data from a specific glove input device, thatsystem is typically unusable with any other input device.The set of gestures that a system is trained to recognize istypically not extensible, without retraining the entire system.We propose a novel gesture recognition frameworkto address these problems. This framework is based on amulti-layered view of gesture recognition. Only the lowestlayer is device dependent; it converts raw sensor valuesproduced by the glove to a glove-independent semanticdescription of the hand. The higher layers of our frame-workcan be reused across gloves, and are easily extensibleto include new gestures. We have experimentally evaluatedour framework and found that it yields comparable performanceto conventional techniques, while substantiating ourclaims of device independence and extensibility.