A naïve Bayes classifier with distance weighting for hand-gesture recognition

Pujan Ziaie, Thomas Müller, Mary Ellen Foster, Alois Knoll

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Abstract

We present an effective and fast method for static hand gesture recognition. This method is based on classifying the different gestures according to geometric-based invariants which are obtained from image data after segmentation; thus, unlike many other recognition methods, this method is not dependent on skin color. Gestures are extracted from each frame of the video, with a static background. The segmentation is done by dynamic extraction of background pixels according to the histogram of each image. Gestures are classified using a weighted K-Nearest Neighbors Algorithm which is combined with a naive Bayes approach to estimate the probability of each gesture type.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationAdvances in Computer Science and Engineering - 13th International CSI Computer Conference, CSICC 2008, Revised Selected Papers
Pages308-315
Number of pages8
DOIs
StatePublished - 2008
Event13th International Computer Society of Iran Computer Conference on Advances in Computer Science and Engineering, CSICC 2008 - Kish Island, Iran, Islamic Republic of
Duration: 9 Mar 200811 Mar 2008

Publication series

NameCommunications in Computer and Information Science
Volume6 CCIS
ISSN (Print)1865-0929

Conference

Conference13th International Computer Society of Iran Computer Conference on Advances in Computer Science and Engineering, CSICC 2008
Country/TerritoryIran, Islamic Republic of
CityKish Island
Period9/03/0811/03/08

Keywords

  • Classification
  • Gesture Recognition
  • Human-robot interaction
  • Image Processing
  • K-Nearest Neighbors
  • Naïve Bayes

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