Static and dynamic hand-gesture recognition for augmented reality applications

Stefan Reifinger, Frank Wallhoff, Markus Ablassmeier, Tony Poitschke, Gerhard Rigoll

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Abstract

This contribution presents our approach for an instrumented automatic gesture recognition system for use in Augmented Reality, which is able to differentiate static and dynamic gestures. Basing on an infrared tracking system, infrared targets mounted at the users thumbs and index fingers are used to retrieve information about position and orientation of each finger. Our system receives this information and extracts static gestures by distance classifiers and dynamic gestures by statistical models. The concluded gesture is provided to any connected application. We introduce a small demonstration as basis for a short evaluation. In this we compare interaction in a real environment, Augmented Reality with a mouse/keyboard, and our gesture recognition system concerning properties, such as task execution time or intuitiveness of interaction. The results show that tasks executed by interaction with our gesture recognition system are faster than using the mouse/keyboard. However, this enhancement entails a slightly lowered wearing comfort.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationHuman-Computer Interaction
Subtitle of host publicationHCI Intelligent Multimodal Interaction Environments - 12th International Conference, HCI International 2007, Proceedings
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages728-737
Number of pages10
EditionPART 3
ISBN (Print)9783540731085
DOIs
StatePublished - 2007
Event12th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCI International 2007 - Beijing, China
Duration: 22 Jul 200727 Jul 2007

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
NumberPART 3
Volume4552 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference12th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCI International 2007
Country/TerritoryChina
CityBeijing
Period22/07/0727/07/07

Keywords

  • Augmented reality
  • Gesture recognition
  • Human computer interaction

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