Hand gesture recognition for human-robot interaction

This project proposes an image segmentation method that improves the recognition rate of vision-based hand gesture recognition system on low-resolution images and occluded hand gestures. The solution is based on the idea that random walker-based segmentation could provide high quality segmentation d...

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Main Author: Tan, Ann Nie
Format: Thesis
Language:English
Published: 2020
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Online Access:http://eprints.utm.my/93019/1/TanAnnNieMSKE2020.pdf
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description This project proposes an image segmentation method that improves the recognition rate of vision-based hand gesture recognition system on low-resolution images and occluded hand gestures. The solution is based on the idea that random walker-based segmentation could provide high quality segmentation despite weak object boundaries. The approach has several notable merits, namely high segmentation accuracy, fast editing and computation. A comprehensive verification using Matlab is carried out to determine the effectiveness of random walker method in segmenting occluded hand gesture images. The segmented images are then classified by artificial neural network and its performance is evaluated in terms of recognition rate and time. The result confirms that the proposed method is performs better than color-based segmentation, that is 5% higher recognition rate for the same dataset. The method proposed in this project can be integrated in vision-based recognition systems to widen the vocabulary of hand gestures recognition systems, recognizing both gestures with finger gaps as well as occluded gestures.
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spelling utm.eprints-930192021-11-07T06:00:29Z http://eprints.utm.my/93019/ Hand gesture recognition for human-robot interaction Tan, Ann Nie TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering This project proposes an image segmentation method that improves the recognition rate of vision-based hand gesture recognition system on low-resolution images and occluded hand gestures. The solution is based on the idea that random walker-based segmentation could provide high quality segmentation despite weak object boundaries. The approach has several notable merits, namely high segmentation accuracy, fast editing and computation. A comprehensive verification using Matlab is carried out to determine the effectiveness of random walker method in segmenting occluded hand gesture images. The segmented images are then classified by artificial neural network and its performance is evaluated in terms of recognition rate and time. The result confirms that the proposed method is performs better than color-based segmentation, that is 5% higher recognition rate for the same dataset. The method proposed in this project can be integrated in vision-based recognition systems to widen the vocabulary of hand gestures recognition systems, recognizing both gestures with finger gaps as well as occluded gestures. 2020 Thesis NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en http://eprints.utm.my/93019/1/TanAnnNieMSKE2020.pdf Tan, Ann Nie (2020) Hand gesture recognition for human-robot interaction. Masters thesis, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Faculty of Engineering - School of Electrical Engineering. http://dms.library.utm.my:8080/vital/access/manager/Repository/vital:135860
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Hand gesture recognition for human-robot interaction
title Hand gesture recognition for human-robot interaction
title_full Hand gesture recognition for human-robot interaction
title_fullStr Hand gesture recognition for human-robot interaction
title_full_unstemmed Hand gesture recognition for human-robot interaction
title_short Hand gesture recognition for human-robot interaction
title_sort hand gesture recognition for human robot interaction
topic TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering
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