Dynamic Time Warping for Off-Line Recognition of a Small Gesture Vocabulary

  • Authors:
  • Andrea Corradini

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • RATFG-RTS '01 Proceedings of the IEEE ICCV Workshop on Recognition, Analysis, and Tracking of Faces and Gestures in Real-Time Systems (RATFG-RTS'01)
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

Abstract: Considerable effort has been put towards developing intelligent and natural interfaces between users and computer systems. This is done by means of a variety of modes of information (visual, audio, pen, etc.) either used individually or in combination. In this work, we focus on the visual sensory information to recognize human activity in form of hand-arm movements from a small, predefined vocabulary. We accomplish this task by means of a matching technique by determining the distance between the unknown input and a set of previously defined templates. A dynamic time warping (DTW) algorithm is used to perform the time alignment and normalization by computing a temporal transformation allowing the two signals to be matched. The system is trained with finite video sequences of single gesture performances whose start and end point are accurately known. Preliminary experiments are accomplished off-line and result in a recognition accuracy of up to 92%.