Dynamic hand gesture recognition from cyclical hand pattern

In this paper, we tackle advantages of cyclical movement patterns of hand gestures. The cyclical patterns are defined as closed-form which hand moves away from a rest position, follows one or more of a series of the movement of hand shapes and returns to its rest position. Due to the cyclical pattern characteristic, phase of gestures are supportive cues for deploying robust recognition schemes. We conduct a spatial-temporal representation of the hand gestures which takes into account both hand shapes and its movements during a gesture. The phase alignment then is deployed in the conducted space. The proposed scheme ensures inter-period phase continuity as well as normalizes length of the hand gestures. Three different datasets of dynamic hand gestures consisting of non-cyclical and cyclical patterns are examined. Evaluation results confirm that the best accuracy rate achieves at 96% for cyclical pattern that is significantly higher than results for typical gestures. The proposed method suggests a feasible and robust solution addressing technical issues in developing human-computer interaction applications such as using hand gestures to control home appliance devices.