Hand posture estimation attracts researchers because of its many applications. Hand posture recognition systems simulate the hand postures by using mathematical algorithms. Convolutional neural networks have provided the best results in the hand posture recognition so far. In this paper, we propose a new method to estimate the hand skeletal posture by using deep convolutional neural networks. T...

Importance of human-computer interaction (HCI) systems is increasing since they revolutionized the way people interact with computers. Gesture and posture analysis, especially hand gesture and posture recognition, is one of the more recent areas in the HCI with ever widening field of applications. In this paper we propose an algorithm for hand posture recognition that is based on skin detection...

A new compositional technique for hand posture recognition is described. Compositional methods are a powerful approach in image understanding. Most papers using this concept address image categorization problems. We recently propose a hand pose recognition method using the compositional approach. In this paper we present further development of our method and new results. Key-Words: compositiona...

This paper describes techniques for the design of a system able to interact with the user by visual recognition of hand gestures. The system is composed of three modules including tracking, posture classii-cation and gesture recognition. A description of each module is given. In order to increase the robustness and the precision of the tracking, several complementary tracking processes are coup...

New results obtain with the compositional technique for hand posture recognition is presented. Compositional methods are a powerful approach in image understanding. Most papers using this concept address image categorization problems. We recently propose a hand pose recognition method using the compositional approach. In this paper we present further development of our method and new results. K...

In the development of humanoid personal robots, accompanying the life of humans in their everyday activities, vision is no doubt an extremely important sensory capability to provide the robots with. In this paper, we propose the application of robot vision to the identification of hand posture, as a first step in gesture detection, for two main classes of reasons: I ) the recognition of human h...