Gesture recognition

A child's hand location and movement being detected by a gesture recognition algorithm

Gesture recognition is an area of research and development in computer science and language technology concerned with the recognition and interpretation of human gestures. A subdiscipline of computer vision,[citation needed] it employs mathematical algorithms to interpret gestures.[1]

Gesture recognition offers a path for computers to begin to better understand and interpret human body language, previously not possible through text or unenhanced graphical (GUI) user interfaces.

Gestures can originate from any bodily motion or state, but commonly originate from the face or hand. One area of the field is emotion recognition derived from facial expressions and hand gestures. Users can make simple gestures to control or interact with devices without physically touching them.

Many approaches have been made using cameras and computer vision algorithms to interpret sign language, however, the identification and recognition of posture, gait, proxemics, and human behaviors is also the subject of gesture recognition techniques.[2]

  1. ^ Kobylarz, Jhonatan; Bird, Jordan J.; Faria, Diego R.; Ribeiro, Eduardo Parente; Ekárt, Anikó (2020-03-07). "Thumbs up, thumbs down: non-verbal human-robot interaction through real-time EMG classification via inductive and supervised transductive transfer learning" (PDF). Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing. 11 (12). Springer Science and Business Media LLC: 6021–6031. doi:10.1007/s12652-020-01852-z. ISSN 1868-5137.
  2. ^ Matthias Rehm, Nikolaus Bee, Elisabeth André, Wave Like an Egyptian – Accelerometer Based Gesture Recognition for Culture Specific Interactions, British Computer Society, 2007

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