Journal
SENSORS
Volume 19, Issue 5, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/s19051078
Keywords
hand posture recognition; fingerspelling; Polish finger alphabet; American finger alphabet; Kinect; point cloud; hidden Markov models
Funding
- Rzeszow University of Technology and Polish Ministry of Higher Education [DS/M, DS.EA.18.001]
- National Centre for Research and Development NCBR [TANGO1/270034/NCBR/2015]
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The paper presents a method for recognizing sequences of static letters of the Polish finger alphabet using the point cloud descriptors: viewpoint feature histogram, eigenvalues-based descriptors, ensemble of shape functions, and global radius-based surface descriptor. Each sequence is understood as quick highly coarticulated motions, and the classification is performed by networks of hidden Markov models trained by transitions between postures corresponding to particular letters. Three kinds of the left-to-right Markov models of the transitions, two networks of the transition modelsindependent and dependent on a dictionaryas well as various combinations of point cloud descriptors are examined on a publicly available dataset of 4200 executions (registered as depth map sequences) prepared by the authors. The hand shape representation proposed in our method can also be applied for recognition of hand postures in single frames. We confirmed this using a known, challenging American finger alphabet dataset with about 60,000 depth images.
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