>Magister Scientiae - MSc / Hand shape recognition is a pivotal part of any system that attempts to implement Sign Language recognition. This thesis presents a novel system which recognises hand shapes from a single camera view in 2D. By mapping the recognised hand shape from 2D to 3D,it is possible to obtain 3D co-ordinates for each of the joints within the hand using the kinematics embedded in a 3D hand avatar and smooth the transformation in 3D space between any given hand shapes. The novelty in this system is that it does not require a hand pose to be recognised at every frame, but rather that hand shapes be detected at a given step size. This architecture allows for a more efficient system with better accuracy than other related systems. Moreover, a real-time hand tracking strategy was developed that works efficiently for any skin tone and a complex background.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:netd.ac.za/oai:union.ndltd.org:uwc/oai:etd.uwc.ac.za:11394/4374 |
| Date | January 2012 |
| Creators | Li, Pei |
| Contributors | Connan, James, Ghaziasgar, Mehrdad |
| Publisher | University of the Western Cape |
| Source Sets | South African National ETD Portal |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
| Rights | University of the Western Cape |
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