Fingers' Angle Calculation Using Level-Set Method

Abstract

In the current age, use of natural communication in human-computer interaction is a known and well-installed thought. Hand gesture recognition and gesture-based applications have gained a significant amount of popularity amongst people all over the world. They have a number of applications ranging from security to entertainment. These applications generally are real time applications and need fast, accurate communication with machines. On the other end, gesture-based communications have few limitations, but bent finger information is not provided in vision-based techniques. In this chapter, a novel method for fingertip detection and for angle calculation of both hands' bent fingers is discussed. Angle calculation has been done before with sensor-based gloves/devices. This study has been conducted in the context of natural computing for calculating angles without using any wired equipment, colors, marker, or any device. The pre-processing and segmentation of the region of interest is performed in a HSV color space and a binary format, respectively. Fingertips are detected using level-set method and angles are calculated using geometrical analysis. This technique requires no training for the system to perform the task.