Continuous hand openness detection using a Kinect-like device
- Autori: Gentile, V; Sorce, S; Gentile, A
- Anno di pubblicazione: 2014
- Tipologia: eedings
- OA Link: http://hdl.handle.net/10447/99068
Abstract
This paper presents a novel method to reproduce in real time the opening and closing gestures of a human hand, animating a three-dimensional model of it. In other works, this result can be achieved by mapping a set of significant points of a real hand on the corresponding points of the model to animate. We propose an alternative way to produce the same effect without mapping points, but using a level-based estimation of the degree of opening of the hand. The experiments have been executed using Microsoft Kinectâ„¢, but the method would work on any other Kinect-like devices (as defined herein). The results obtained are particularly encouraging and demonstrate real-time performance of the system.