Arm and Body gesture recognition

Gesture Recognition Based on the Probability Distribution of Arm Trajectories

The use of human motions for the interaction between humans and computers is becoming an attractive alternative to verbal media, especially through the visual interpretation of the human body motion. In particular, hand gestures are used as non-verbal media for the humans to communicate with machines that pertain to the use of the human gestures to interact with them. This paper introduces a 3D...

Body Movement Analysis and Recognition

In this chapter, a nonverbal way of communication for human–robot interaction by understanding human upper body gestures will be addressed. The human– robot interaction system based on a novel combination of sensors is proposed. It allows one person to interact with a humanoid social robot with natural body language. The robot can understand the meaning of human upper body gestures and express ...

Visually Gesture Recognition for an Interactive Robot Grasping Application

Gesture based natural human-robot interaction paradigm has few physical requirements, and thus can be deployed in many restrictive and challenging environments. In this paper, we propose a robot vision based approach to recognizing intentional arm-pointing gestures of human for an object grasping application. To overcome the limitation of robot onboard vision quality and background cluttering i...

Human-Robot Interaction by Understanding Upper Body Gestures

In this paper, a human-robot interaction system based on a novel combination of sensors is proposed. It allows one person to interact with a humanoid social robot using natural body language. The robot understands the meaning of human upper body gestures and expresses itself by using a combination of body movements, facial expressions and verbal language. A set of 12 upper body gestures is invo...

Gesture Recognition Using the Linear Combination of Membership Degrees of Observations