Estimation of Human Motion from Multiple Cameras for Gesture Recognition

  • Authors:
  • Masafumi Tominaga;Hitoshi Hongo;Hiroyasu Koshimizu;Yoshinori Niwa;Kazuhiko Yamamoto

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • ICPR '02 Proceedings of the 16 th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR'02) Volume 1 - Volume 1
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

We have been researching human sensing technologies based on computer vision for the realization of the Percept-Room as an intelligent environment. This room offers several services such as the control of electrical appliances by use of gestures. A more caring technology is strongly expected for providing more human-friendly interfaces.As a first step, the recognition of human motion in the Percept-Room is an important task. We propose a method for extracting humans and then hand gestures from multi-channel motion images captured in the Percept-Room. The human position and the rising handgestures are estimated by integrating the silhouettes from multiple cameras by a background image subtraction and a frame subtraction. We describe the proposed methods and the experimental results obtained by use of a PC system implemented in the Percept-Room.