Gesture recognition for human-machine interaction in table tennis video based on deep semantic understanding

The analysis of moving objects in videos, especially the recognition of human motions and gestures, is attracting increasing emphasis in computer vision area. However, most existing video analysis methods do not take into account the effect of video semantic information. The topological information of the video image plays an important role in describing the association relationship of the image content, which will help to improve the discriminability of the video feature expression. Based on the above considerations, we propose a video semantic feature learning method that integrates image topological sparse coding with dynamic time warping algorithm to improve the gesture recognition in videos. This method divides video feature learning into two phases: semi-supervised video image feature learning and supervised optimization of video sequence features. Next, a distance weighting based dynamic time warping algorithm and K-nearest neighbor algorithm is leveraged to recognize gestures. We conduct comparative experiments on table tennis video dataset. The experimental results show that the proposed method is more discriminative to the expression of video features and can effectively improve the recognition rate of gestures in sports video.