Human Hand Tracking from Binocular Image Sequences - Robotics Institute Carnegie Mellon University

Human Hand Tracking from Binocular Image Sequences

Kenichi Nirei, Hideo Saito, Masaaki Mochimaru, and S. Ozawa
Conference Paper, Proceedings of IEEE 22th International Conference on Industrial Electronics, Control, and Instrumentation (IECON '96), pp. 297 - 302, August, 1996

Abstract

Sensing of human hand motion is very important for a variety of applications, such as computer animation and athletic performance measurement. Tracking a hand is difficult because the hand has high degree of freedom articulated mechanisms. This paper presents a 3D model-based hand tracking method which is robust to occlusions and local minima. Tracking is performed by minimizing the estimation error of an optical flow and maximizing the overlap between a projected model and a silhouette image. The authors employ stochastic optimization to solve them, which are generally difficult. They present experimental results on tracking from synthetic and real image sequences.

BibTeX

@conference{Nirei-1996-14193,
author = {Kenichi Nirei and Hideo Saito and Masaaki Mochimaru and S. Ozawa},
title = {Human Hand Tracking from Binocular Image Sequences},
booktitle = {Proceedings of IEEE 22th International Conference on Industrial Electronics, Control, and Instrumentation (IECON '96)},
year = {1996},
month = {August},
pages = {297 - 302},
}