Hand gesture recognition for a virtual mouse application using geometric feature of finger's trajectories

Behnam Maleki, Hossein Ebrahimnezhad, Min Xu, Xiangjian He

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Abstract

We aim to enable a computer to comprehend and perform the mouse functions by analyzing a video with hand motions. For this purpose, dynamic gestures are captured by a web cam and are recognized as pre-defined gestures which are used to suggest mouse functions. The proposed algorithm initially detects the hand. Then, it tracks fingertips' trajectories within a frame sequence. Finally, hand gestures are recognized through computing a set of proposed geometric features of fingers' trajectories and comparing with our collected gestures dataset. In this paper, four types of descriptors are defined for a dynamic gesture. Each descriptor includes different number of features, which compose a feature vector with 135 dimensions. Different classification algorithms (e.g. KNN, LDA, Naïve Bayes and SVM) are applied to compare the detection results. The minimal misclassification error rate (MCR) reaches about 4% (i.e. Correct Recognition rate of 96%). Furthermore, we applied Principle Component Analysis (PCA) to reduce the number of features. With 30 dimensional features (principle components), LDA classifier can achieve about 0.09% misclassification error rate.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationICIMCS 2015 - Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Internet Multimedia Computing and Service
EditorsRamesh Jain, Shuqiang Jiang, John Smith, Jitao Sang, Guohui Li, Tianzhu Zhang, Shuhui Wang
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery
Pages16-19
Number of pages4
ISBN (Electronic)9781450335287
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 19 Aug 2015
Externally publishedYes
Event7th International Conference on Internet Multimedia Computing and Service, ICIMCS 2015 - Zhangjiajie, Hunan, China
Duration: 19 Aug 201521 Aug 2015

Publication series

NameACM International Conference Proceeding Series
Volume2015-August

Conference

Conference7th International Conference on Internet Multimedia Computing and Service, ICIMCS 2015
Country/TerritoryChina
CityZhangjiajie, Hunan
Period19/08/1521/08/15

Keywords

  • Dynamic hand gesture
  • Gesture classification
  • Hand tracking
  • Principle Component Analysis
  • Recognition

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Software
  • Human-Computer Interaction
  • Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
  • Computer Networks and Communications

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