• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제14권2호
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• pp.757-770
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• 2020

We propose a hand gesture recognition method that is compatible with a head-up display (HUD) including small processing resource. For fast link adaptation with HUD, it is necessary to rapidly process gesture recognition and send the minimum amount of driver hand gesture data from the wearable device. Therefore, we use a method that recognizes each hand gesture with an inertial measurement unit (IMU) sensor based on revised correlation matching. The method of gesture recognition is executed by calculating the correlation between every axis of the acquired data set. By classifying pre-defined gesture values and actions, the proposed method enables rapid recognition. Furthermore, we evaluate the performance of the algorithm, which can be implanted within wearable bands, requiring a minimal process load. The experimental results evaluated the feasibility and effectiveness of our decomposed correlation matching method. Furthermore, we tested the proposed algorithm to confirm the effectiveness of the system using pre-defined gestures of specific motions with a wearable platform device. The experimental results validated the feasibility and effectiveness of the proposed hand gesture recognition system. Despite being based on a very simple concept, the proposed algorithm showed good performance in recognition accuracy.

• 대한인간공학회지
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• 제31권4호
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• pp.551-556
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• 2012

Objective: This study presents the effect of visual feedback on one-hand gesture performance in vision-based gesture recognition system when people use gestures to control a screen device remotely. Backgroud: gesture interaction receives growing attention because it uses advanced sensor technology and it allows users natural interaction using their own body motion. In generating motion, visual feedback has been to considered critical factor affect speed and accuracy. Method: three types of visual feedback(arrow, star, and animation) were selected and 20 gestures were listed. 12 participants perform each 20 gestures while given 3 types of visual feedback in turn. Results: People made longer hand trace and take longer time to make a gesture when they were given arrow shape feedback than star-shape feedback. The animation type feedback was most preferred. Conclusion: The type of visual feedback showed statistically significant effect on the length of hand trace, elapsed time, and speed of motion in performing a gesture. Application: This study could be applied to any device that needs visual feedback for device control. A big feedback generate shorter length of motion trace, less time, faster than smaller one when people performs gestures to control a device. So the big size of visual feedback would be recommended for a situation requiring fast actions. On the other hand, the smaller visual feedback would be recommended for a situation requiring elaborated actions.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제16권12호
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• pp.1393-1402
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• 2013

Hand gesture is one of the most popular communication methods in everyday life. In human-computer interaction applications, hand gesture recognition provides a natural way of communication between humans and computers. There are mainly two methods of hand gesture recognition: glove-based method and vision-based method. In this paper, we propose a vision-based hand gesture recognition method using Kinect. By using the depth information is efficient and robust to achieve the hand detection process. The finger labeling makes the system achieve pose classification according to the finger name and the relationship between each fingers. It also make the classification more effective and accutate. Two kinds of gesture sets can be recognized by our system. According to the experiment, the average accuracy of American Sign Language(ASL) number gesture set is 94.33%, and that of general gestures set is 95.01%. Since our system runs in real-time and has a high recognition rate, we can embed it into various applications.

• 대한인간공학회지
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• 제34권5호
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• pp.411-426
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• 2015

Objective: The goal of this thesis is to design the interaction structure and framework of system to recognize sign language. Background: The sign language of meaningful individual gestures is combined to construct a sentence, so it is difficult to interpret and recognize the meaning of hand gesture for system, because of the sequence of continuous gestures. This being so, in order to interpret the meaning of individual gesture correctly, the interaction structure and framework are needed so that they can segment the indication of individual gesture. Method: We analyze 700 sign language words to structuralize the sign language gesture interaction. First of all, we analyze the transformational patterns of the hand gesture. Second, we analyze the movement of the transformational patterns of the hand gesture. Third, we analyze the type of other gestures except hands. Based on this, we design a framework for sign language interaction. Results: We elicited 8 patterns of hand gesture on the basis of the fact on whether the gesture has a change from starting point to ending point. And then, we analyzed the hand movement based on 3 elements: patterns of movement, direction, and whether hand movement is repeating or not. Moreover, we defined 11 movements of other gestures except hands and classified 8 types of interaction. The framework for sign language interaction, which was designed based on this mentioned above, applies to more than 700 individual gestures of the sign language, and can be classified as an individual gesture in spite of situation which has continuous gestures. Conclusion: This study has structuralized in 3 aspects defined to analyze the transformational patterns of the starting point and the ending point of hand shape, hand movement, and other gestures except hands for sign language interaction. Based on this, we designed the framework that can recognize the individual gestures and interpret the meaning more accurately, when meaningful individual gesture is input sequence of continuous gestures. Application: When we develop the system of sign language recognition, we can apply interaction framework to it. Structuralized gesture can be used for using database of sign language, inventing an automatic recognition system, and studying on the action gestures in other areas.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제13권7호
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• pp.1000-1015
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• 2010

본 논문에서는 손동작 인식을 위한 새로운 방법을 제안한다. 손 추출을 위한 방법으로는 피부색과 boundary energy 정보를 이용하고 moment method로 손바닥의 중심을 구하게 된다. 손동작 인식은 두 단계로 나눌 수 있다. 첫 번째 단계는 손 형상 인식으로 병렬 신경망을 이용하였다. 손 형상의 패턴을 추출하기 위해서 fitting ellipses method를 이용하였다. fitting ellipses method는 추출된 손 영역을 12개의 타원형으로 분류하고 타원 외곽선의 흰 픽셀 비율을 계산한다. 패턴은 12개의 입력 노드로 신경망에 입력되고 4개의 출력 노드로 출력되는데 각 출력 노드는 0~1사이의 값을 갖게 된다. 손 형상은 4개의 출력 노드의 구성으로 나타낼 수 있다. 두 번째 단계는 손동작 추적과 인식이다. 손동작 추적과 인식을 위해서는 손동작의 위치 정보를 예측 할 수 있는 Kalman Filter를 이용하였다. 실험은 Windows XP상에서 수행되었고 제안한 알고리즘의 효율성을 평가하였다. 손 형상을 인식하기 위해서 300개의 이미지를 인식기에 훈련시키고 200개의 이미지를 실험에 사용하였다. 194개 이상의 이미지가 정확하게 인식 되었다. 그리고 손동작 추적 인식을 실험하기 위해서 1200번의 손동작(각 동작은 400번)을 사용하였고 그 중 1002번의 손동작이 정확하게 인식 되었다.이러한 결과는 제안된 방법이 손 영역을 추출하고 손 동작을 인식하는데 유용함을 확인 할 수 있었다.

• JSTS:Journal of Semiconductor Technology and Science
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• 제17권3호
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• pp.473-482
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• 2017

Hand gesture recognition is regarded as new Human Computer Interaction (HCI) technologies for the next generation of mobile devices. Previous hand gesture implementation requires a large memory and computation power for hand segmentation, which fails to give real-time interaction with mobile devices to users. Therefore, in this paper, we presents a low latency and memory-efficient hand segmentation architecture for natural hand gesture recognition. To obtain both high memory-efficiency and low latency, we propose a streaming hand contour tracing unit and a fast contour filling unit. As a result, it achieves 7.14 ms latency with only 34.8 KB on-chip memory, which are 1.65 times less latency and 1.68 times less on-chip memory, respectively, compare to the best-in-class.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제14권4호
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• pp.504-516
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• 2011

In this paper, we will present a method to detect human hand and recognize hand gesture. For detecting the hand region, we use the feature of human skin color and hand feature (with boundary complexity) to detect the hand region from the input image; and use algorithm of optical flow to track the hand movement. Hand gesture recognition is composed of two parts: 1. Posture recognition and 2. Motion recognition, for describing the hand posture feature, we employ the Fourier descriptor method because it's rotation invariant. And we employ PCA method to extract the feature among gesture frames sequences. The HMM method will finally be used to recognize these feature to make a final decision of a hand gesture. Through the experiment, we can see that our proposed method can achieve 99% recognition rate at environment with simple background and no face region together, and reduce to 89.5% at the environment with complex background and with face region. These results can illustrate that the proposed algorithm can be applied as a production.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제14권2호
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• pp.182-193
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• 2011

The aim of this paper is to present the methodology for hand tracking and hand gesture recognition. The detected hand and gesture can be used to implement the non-contact mouse. We had developed a MP3 player using this technology controlling the computer instead of mouse. In this algorithm, we first do a pre-processing to every frame which including lighting compensation and background filtration to reducing the adverse impact on correctness of hand tracking and hand gesture recognition. Secondly, YCbCr skin-color likelihood algorithm is used to detecting the hand area. Then, we used Continuously Adaptive Mean Shift (CAMSHIFT) algorithm to tracking hand. As the formula-based region of interest is square, the hand is closer to rectangular. We have improved the formula of the search window to get a much suitable search window for hand. And then, Support Vector Machines (SVM) algorithm is used for hand gesture recognition. For training the system, we collected 1500 hand gesture pictures of 5 hand gestures. Finally we have performed extensive experiment on a Windows XP system to evaluate the efficiency of the proposed scheme. The hand tracking correct rate is 96% and the hand gestures average correct rate is 95%.

• 산업기술연구
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• 제29권A호
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• pp.47-54
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• 2009

In this paper, we proposed hand detection and hand gesture recognition from USB camera video. Firstly, we extract hand region extraction using skin color information from a difference images. Background image is initially stored and extracted from the input images in order to reduce problems from complex backgrounds. After that, 16-directional chain code sequence is computed from the tracking of hand motion. These chain code sequences are compared with pre-trained models using DP matching. Our hand gesture recognition system can be used to control PowerPoint slides or applied to multimedia education systems. We got 92% hand region extraction accuracy and 82.5% gesture recognition accuracy, respectively.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제14권10호
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• pp.5169-5175
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• 2013

본 논문에서는 삼차원 핸드 제스쳐 디자인 및 모델링을 위한 프레임워크를 기술한다. 동작 인식, 평가, 등록을 지원하기위해 동적시간정합(Dynamic Time Warping, 이하 DTW)과 은닉마코브모델 (Hidden Markov Mode, 이하 HMM)을 활용 하였다. HMM은 제스쳐 인식에 활용되며 또한 제스쳐 디자인과 등록 과정에 활용된다. DTW은 HMM 훈련 데이터가 부족한 경우 제스쳐 인식에 활용되고, 수행된 동작이 기준 동작의 차이를 평가하는 데에 활용된다. 동작 움직임에 나타나는 위치 정보와 관성 정보를 모두 획득하기 위해 바디센서와 시각센서를 혼합하여 동작을 감지하였다. 18개의 예제 손동작을 디자인하고 다양한 상황에서 제안된 기법을 테스트하였다. 또한 제스쳐 수행시 나타나는 사용자간 다양성에 대해 토론한다.