Vision-Based Hand Gesture Recognition for Human-Vehicle Interaction

This paper presents a part of research work within the project that aims at developing intelligent, user-friendly and highly safe vehicle. A research framework is proposed that cover the following aspects: control, visual guidance, human-vehicle interaction. Main discussion is focused on the analysis of interaction modes between human and vehicle under various scenarios such as: calling-up vehicle, stopping vehicle, and directing vehicle, etc. Some preliminary results are shown in order to demonstrate the possibility of making vehicle to detect and understand human’s intention and gestures. This interactive ability of vehicle with human has the capital importance of convincing public to accept the existence and usage of intelligent vehicles, because safety issue is a main concern in public and can be greatly enhanced through vision guided human-vehicle interactions.