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3D fingertip and palm tracking in depth image sequences

  • Nanyang Technological University

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Abstract

We present a vision-based approach for robust 3D fingertip and palm tracking on depth images using a single Kinect sensor. First the hand is segmented in the depth images by applying depth and morphological constraints. The palm is located by performing distance transform to the hand contour and tracked with a Kalman filter. The fingertips are detected by combining three depth-based features and tracked with a particle filter over successive frames. Quantitative results on synthetic depth sequences show the proposed scheme can track the fingertips quite accurately. Besides, its capabilities are further demonstrated through a real-life human-computer interaction application.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationMM 2012 - Proceedings of the 20th ACM International Conference on Multimedia
Pages785-788
Number of pages4
DOIs
StatePublished - 2012
Event20th ACM International Conference on Multimedia, MM 2012 - Nara, Japan
Duration: Oct 29 2012Nov 2 2012

Publication series

NameMM 2012 - Proceedings of the 20th ACM International Conference on Multimedia

Conference

Conference20th ACM International Conference on Multimedia, MM 2012
Country/TerritoryJapan
CityNara
Period10/29/1211/2/12

Keywords

  • fingertip tracking
  • geodesic distance
  • human-computer interaction
  • kinect sensor

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