Event-driven Body Motion Analysis For Real-time Gesture Recognition

By B Kohn, Ahmed Nabil Belbachir, T. Hahn, and Hannes Kaufmann

Abstract

This paper presents an evaluation of spatiotemporal data generated by a dynamic stereo vision sensor in a highdimensional space (3D volume and time) for motion analysis and gesture recognition. In contrast to traditional frame-based (synchronous) stereo cameras, dynamic stereo vision sensors asynchronously generates events upon scene dynamics. Motion activities are intrinsically (on-chip) segmented by the sensor, such that activity, gesture recognition and tracking can be intuitively and efficiently performed. In this work, we investigated the applicability of this sensor for gesture recognition. We developed a machine lerning method based on the Hidden Markow Model for training and automated classifications of gestures using the event data generated by the sensor. By training eight different activities (dance figures) with 15 persons we build up a library of 580 recorded activites. An average recognition rate of 97% has been reached.

Reference

B. Kohn, A. Belbachir, T Hahn, H. Kaufmann: "Event-driven Body Motion Analysis For Real-time Gesture Recognition"; in: "Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems", IEEE Computer Society, 2012, 703 - 706.

BibTeX

@inproceedings{TUW-210332, author = {Kohn, B and Belbachir, Ahmed Nabil and Hahn, T. and Kaufmann, Hannes}, title = {Event-driven Body Motion Analysis For Real-time Gesture Recognition}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems}, year = {2012}, pages = {703--706}, publisher = {IEEE Computer Society}, url = {http://publik.tuwien.ac.at/files/PubDat_210332.pdf}, doi = {10.1109/ISCAS.2012.6272132} } Click into the text area and press Ctrl+A/Ctrl+C or ⌘+A/⌘+C to copy the BibTeX into your clipboard… or download the BibTeX.