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Hand Tracking with an Extended Self-Organizing Map

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Part of the book series: Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing ((AISC,volume 198))

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We introduce an extension of the self-organizing map for performing 3D hand skeleton tracking. We use a range camera for data acquisition and apply a SOM-like learning process within each frame in order to capture the hand pose. Our method uses a topology consisting of 1D and 2D segments for an improved representation of the hand. The proposed algorithm is very efficient and produces good tracking results.

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  1. Institute for Neuro- and Bioinformatics, University of Lübeck, Ratzeburger Allee 160, 23538, Lübeck, Germany

    Andreea State, Foti Coleca, Erhardt Barth & Thomas Martinetz

  2. University ”POLITEHNICA” of Bucureşti, Splaiul Independenţei 313, 060042, Bucureşti, Romania

    Andreea State

  3. Gestigon GmbH, Innovations Campus Lübeck, Maria-Goeppert Straße 1, 23562, Lübeck, Germany

    Foti Coleca & Erhardt Barth

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  1. , Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Chile, Av. Tupper 2007, Santiago, 8370451, Chile

    Pablo A. Estévez

  2. , Computational NeuroEngineering Lab., University of Florida, 216 Larsen Hall, Gainesville, 32611-6200, USA

    José C. Príncipe

  3. , Facultad de Ingeniería y, Universidad de los Andes, San Carlos de Apoquindo Nº 2200, Santiago, 8370451, Chile

    Pablo Zegers

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State, A., Coleca, F., Barth, E., Martinetz, T. (2013). Hand Tracking with an Extended Self-Organizing Map. In: Estévez, P., Príncipe, J., Zegers, P. (eds) Advances in Self-Organizing Maps. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 198. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-35230-0_12

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