Abstract

Automatic recognition of hand postures is an important research topic with many applications, e.g., communication support for deaf people. In this paper, we present a novel four-stage, Mahalanobis-distance-based method for hand posture recognition using skeletal data. The proposed method is based on a two-stage classification algorithm with two additional stages related to joint preprocessing (normalization) and a rule-based system, specific to hand shapes that the algorithm is meant to classify. The method achieves superior effectiveness on two benchmark datasets, the first of which was created by us for the purpose of this work, while the second is a well-known and publicly available dataset. The method’s recognition rate measured by leave-one-subject-out cross-validation tests is 94.69% on the first dataset and 97.44% on the second. Experiments, including comparison with other state-of-the-art methods and ablation studies related to classification accuracy and time, confirm the effectiveness of our approach.

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