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
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Language:English
Published: 2020
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spelling my-utm-ep.930192021-11-07T06:00:29Z Hand gesture recognition for human-robot interaction 2020 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 http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/93019/ http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/93019/1/TanAnnNieMSKE2020.pdf application/pdf en public http://dms.library.utm.my:8080/vital/access/manager/Repository/vital:135860 masters Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Faculty of Engineering - School of Electrical Engineering Faculty of Engineering - School of Electrical Engineering
institution Universiti Teknologi Malaysia
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language English
topic TK Electrical engineering
Electronics Nuclear engineering
spellingShingle TK Electrical engineering
Electronics Nuclear engineering
Tan, Ann Nie
Hand gesture recognition for human-robot interaction
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.
format Thesis
qualification_level Master's degree
author Tan, Ann Nie
author_facet Tan, Ann Nie
author_sort Tan, Ann Nie
title Hand gesture recognition for human-robot interaction
title_short 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_sort hand gesture recognition for human-robot interaction
granting_institution Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Faculty of Engineering - School of Electrical Engineering
granting_department Faculty of Engineering - School of Electrical Engineering
publishDate 2020
url http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/93019/1/TanAnnNieMSKE2020.pdf
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