Hidden Markov model for human to computer interaction: a study on human hand gesture recognition

Author： Bilal Sara Akmeliawati Rini Shafie Amir Salami Momoh

ISSN： 0269-2821

Source： Artificial Intelligence Review, Vol.40, Iss.4, 2013-12, pp. : 495-516

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Abstract

Human hand recognition plays an important role in a wide range of applications ranging from sign language translators, gesture recognition, augmented reality, surveillance and medical image processing to various Human Computer Interaction (HCI) domains. Human hand is a complex articulated object consisting of many connected parts and joints. Therefore, for applications that involve HCI one can find many challenges to establish a system with high detection and recognition accuracy for hand posture and/or gesture. Hand posture is defined as a static hand configuration without any movement involved. Meanwhile, hand gesture is a sequence of hand postures connected by continuous motions. During the past decades, many approaches have been presented for hand posture and/or gesture recognition. In this paper, we provide a survey on approaches which are based on Hidden Markov Models (HMM) for hand posture and gesture recognition for HCI applications.