A modified EM algorithm for hand gesture segmentation in RGB-D data

Zhaojie Ju; Yuehui Wang; Wei Zeng; Haibin Cai; Honghai Liu

doi:10.1109/FUZZ-IEEE.2014.6891777

A modified EM algorithm for hand gesture segmentation in RGB-D data

Zhaojie Ju, Yuehui Wang, Wei Zeng, Haibin Cai, Honghai Liu

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This paper proposes a novel method with a modified Expectation-Maximisation (EM) Algorithm to segment hand gestures in the RGB-D data captured by Kinect. With the depth map and RGB image aligned by the genetic algorithm to estimate the key points from both depth and RGB images, a novel approach is proposed to refine the edge of the tracked hand gesture, which is used to segment the RGB image of the hand gestures, by applying a modified EM algorithm based on Bayesian networks. The experimental results demonstrated the modified EM algorithm effectively adjusts the RGB edges of the segmented hand gestures. The proposed methods have potential to improve the performance of hand gesture recognition in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI).

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (FUZZ-IEEE)
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages	1736-1742
ISBN (Electronic)	978-1-4799-2072-3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/FUZZ-IEEE.2014.6891777
Publication status	Published - 8 Sept 2014
Event	2014 IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems - Beijing, China Duration: 6 Jul 2014 → 11 Jul 2014

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ISSN (Print)	1098-7584

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Conference	2014 IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems
Abbreviated title	FUZZ-IEEE 2014
Country/Territory	China
City	Beijing
Period	6/07/14 → 11/07/14

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Ju, Z, Wang, Y, Zeng, W, Cai, H & Liu, H 2014, A modified EM algorithm for hand gesture segmentation in RGB-D data. in Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (FUZZ-IEEE). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., pp. 1736-1742, 2014 IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems, Beijing, China, 6/07/14. https://doi.org/10.1109/FUZZ-IEEE.2014.6891777

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