Abstract

Hand Gesture Recognition (HGR) refers to identifying various hand postures used in Sign Language Recognition (SLR) and Human Computer Interaction (HCI) applications. Complex background in uncontrolled environmental condition is the major challenging issue which impacts the recognition accuracy of HGR system. This can be effectively addressed by discarding the background using suitable semantic segmentation method, where it predicts the hand region pixels into foreground and rest of the pixels into background. In this paper, we have analyzed and evaluated well known semantic segmentation architectures for hand region segmentation using both RGB and depth data. Further, ensemble of segmented RGB and depth stream is used for hand gesture classification through probability score fusion. Experimental results shows that the proposed novel framework of Semantic Segmentation and Ensemble Classification (SSEC) is suitable for static hand gesture recognition and achieved F1-score of 88.91% on OUHANDS test dataset.

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