A Real-Time Dynamic Gesture Recognition System

Abstract

In this paper, we present a dynamic gesture recognition system. We focus on the visual sensory information to recognize human activity in form of hand movements from a small, predefined vocabulary. A fast and effective method is presented for hand detection and tracking at first for the trajectory extraction. A novel trajectory correction method is applied for simply but effectively trajectory correction. Gesture recognition is achieved by means of a matching technique by determining the distance between the unknown input direction code sequence 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. Experiment results show our proposed gesture recognition system achieve well result in real time.