Improvement of an intelligent room that detects hand waving motion for operation of home appliances

Takeshi Nagayasu*, Hidetsugu Asano, Kenji Terabayashi, Kazunori Umeda

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Abstract

In this paper, the intelligent room that was formerly proposed by our group is improved by improving the key functions of the room. An intelligent room is a room in which home appliances are operated using gestures, without any additional equipment and any restriction for positions. Three key functions: detection of hand waving, skin color registration, and recognition of number of fingers, are improved. For "detection of hand waving", resolution and sensitivity are improved, and consequently, detection of small finger waving motion is enabled. For "skin color registration", simultaneous processing with detection of finger waving is achieved. And for "recognition of number of fingers", a new method that uses Snakes is introduced and robustness of the process is greatly improved. Additionally, a system to control a TV set with only hand waving is constructed.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationSICE 2011 - SICE Annual Conference 2011, Final Program and Abstracts
PublisherSociety of Instrument and Control Engineers (SICE)
Pages821-826
Number of pages6
ISBN (Print)9784907764395
StatePublished - 2011
Event50th Annual Conference on Society of Instrument and Control Engineers, SICE 2011 - Tokyo, Japan
Duration: 2011/09/132011/09/18

Publication series

NameProceedings of the SICE Annual Conference

Conference

Conference50th Annual Conference on Society of Instrument and Control Engineers, SICE 2011
Country/TerritoryJapan
CityTokyo
Period2011/09/132011/09/18

Keywords

  • Gesture Recognition
  • Image Processing
  • Intelligent Room

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Control and Systems Engineering
  • Computer Science Applications
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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