Real-Time and Robust Method for Hand Gesture Recognition System Based on Cross-Correlation Coefficient

PubDate: Aug 2014

Teams: Shahid Rajaee Teacher training University；Shahid Bahonar University； Hamedan science and research University

Writers: Reza Azad, Babak Azad, Iman Tavakoli Kazerooni

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Abstract

Hand gesture recognition possesses extensive applications in virtual reality, sign language recognition, and computer games. The direct interface of hand gestures provides us a new way for communicating with the virtual environment. In this paper a novel and real-time approach for hand gesture recognition system is presented. In the suggested method, first, the hand gesture is extracted from the main image by the image segmentation and morphological operation and then is sent to feature extraction stage. In feature extraction stage the Cross-correlation coefficient is applied on the gesture to recognize it. In the result part, the proposed approach is applied on American Sign Language (ASL) database and the accuracy rate obtained 98.34%.