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Skin Color Profile Capture for Scale and Rotation Invariant Hand Gesture Recognition

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This paper presents a new approach to real-time scale and rotation invariant hand pose detection, which is based on a technique for computing the best hand skin color segmentation map. This segmentation map, a vector entity referred to as a “skin profile”, is used during an online hand gesture calibration stage to enable correct classification of skin regions. Subsequently, we construct efficient and reliable scale and rotation invariant hand pose gesture descriptors, by introducing an innovative technique, referred to as “oriented gesture descriptors”. Finally, hand pose gesture recognition is computed using a template matching technique which is luminance invariant.

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  1. ADETTI Av. das Forças Armadas, Edifício ISCTE, 1600-082, Lisboa, Portugal

    Rafael Bastos & Miguel Sales Dias

  2. MLDC - Microsoft Language Development Center, Edifício Qualidade C1-C2, Av. Prof. Doutor Aníbal Cavaco Silva, Tagus Park, 2744-010, Porto Salvo, Portugal

    Miguel Sales Dias

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  1. Microsoft and ISCTE, Microsoft Language Development Center, C1 and C2, Av. Doutor Aníbal Cavaco Silva, Tagus Park, 2744-010, Porto Salvo, Portugal

    Miguel Sales Dias

  2. Laboratoire Valoria, Centre de Recherche Yves Coppens, Université de Bretagne-Sud, Campus de Tohannic, 56000, Vannes, France

    Sylvie Gibet

  3. Schulich School of Music, Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Music Media and Technology (CIRMMT), McGill University, 555, Sherbrooke Street West, H3A 1E3, Montreal, QC, Canada

    Marcelo M. Wanderley

  4. ADETTI/ISCTE, Av. das Forças Armadas, 1600-082, Lisboa, Portugal

    Rafael Bastos

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Bastos, R., Sales Dias, M. (2009). Skin Color Profile Capture for Scale and Rotation Invariant Hand Gesture Recognition. In: Sales Dias, M., Gibet, S., Wanderley, M.M., Bastos, R. (eds) Gesture-Based Human-Computer Interaction and Simulation. GW 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 5085. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-92865-2_8

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