An IP-TV Remote Controller based on Hand Posture Recognition using Fourier Descriptor

In this paper, we will propose a new-style remote controller system. The system uses human hand as commander to control the IP-TV. In the system, we detect the hand based on human skin color feature, and describe the hand shape information using Fourier descriptor. In the recognition part, we will use SVM based recognizer to classify the Fourier descriptor of hand feature. In the experiment part, we define 10 kinds of hand posture which is come from Chinese traditional hand-gesture. The experiment results show that our hand gesture remote controller system can achieve 97% recognition rate in the natural light environment. In this case, the system can be applied to IP-TV system.