Tracking of dynamic hand gestures on a mobile platform

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2017-09-08

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Prior, Robert

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Hand gesture recognition is an expansive and evolving field. Previous work addresses methods for tracking hand gestures primarily with specialty gaming/desktop environments in real time. The method proposed here focuses on enhancing performance for mobile GPU platforms with restricted resources by limiting memory use/transfers and by reducing the need for code branches. An encoding scheme has been designed to allow contour processing typically used for finding fingertips to occur efficiently on a GPU for non-touch, remote manipulation of on-screen images. Results show high resolution video frames can be processed in real time on a modern mobile consumer device, allowing for fine grained hand movements to be detected and tracked.

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Computer Vision, mobile, GPU, hand gesture

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