Methods and apparatus for gesture recognition based on templates

Details Methods and apparatus for gesture recognition based on templates Methods and apparatus for gesture recognition based on templates

1997-06-20

2000-06-13

Bella, Matthew C.

Image analysis

Pattern recognition

Template matching

382103, 382159, 382203, 345358, G06K 962, G06K 900

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060758953

ABSTRACT:
An apparatus and a method for recognizing the gesture of the image of a player by identifying a gesture from a set of specific pre-defined gestures. In one embodiment, the method includes the steps of retrieving a background image that does not include the player's image, and a current image that includes the player's image and at least a portion of the background image. Then the method removes at least a portion of the background image from the current image to generate the player's image, which is mapped directly to a number of templates to generate a number of template outputs. Finally, the method analyzes the template outputs to identify the specific pre-defined gesture that corresponds to the gesture in the image.

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