Title: A real-time hand gesture recognition system for daily information retrieval from the internet

Authors: Joseph C. Tsai; Shih-Ming Chang; Shwu-Huey Yen; Kuan-Ching Li; Yung-Hui Chen; Timothy K. Shih

Addresses: Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, Tamkang University, New Taipei City, 25137, Taiwan ' Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, Tamkang University, New Taipei City, 25137, Taiwan ' Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, Tamkang University, New Taipei City, 25137, Taiwan ' Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, Providence University, Taichung City, 43301, Taiwan ' Department of Computer Information and Network Engineering, Lunghwa University of Science and Technology, Taoyuan County, 33306, Taiwan ' Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Central University, Taoyuan County, 30201, Taiwan

Abstract: To get daily information from the internet has become most people's living habits today. In order to reduce the steps of receiving the information, such as complex mouse or keyboard steps, we propose a system designed for easily getting daily information without mouse and keyboard actions in this paper. We have implemented an approach providing daily information retrieved from the internet. Once the function has been selected by hand gestures, the system will report action information to users by synthesised speech. The system also utilises face recognition to identify each user, bringing up personalised services to each user. In this paper, we use PCA method to recognise faces as also hand gestures, and then a number of hand gestures and system controls are acquired and stored into this system. Experiment results show good performance in face recognition and hand gesture recognition.

Keywords: face recognition; hand detection; hand tracking; hand gesture recognition; PCA; principal component analysis; information retrieval; internet; hand gestures; synthesised speech; biometrics; personalised services; personalisation; web services.

DOI: 10.1504/IJCSE.2015.071875

International Journal of Computational Science and Engineering, 2015 Vol.11 No.2, pp.105 - 113

Received: 01 Sep 2012
Accepted: 04 Sep 2012
Published online: 22 Sep 2015 *

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