A real-time hand gesture recognition method

Compared with the traditional interaction approaches, such as keyboard, mouse, pen, etc, vision based hand interaction is more natural and efficient. In this paper, we proposed a robust real-time hand gesture recognition method. In our method, firstly, a specific gesture is required to trigger the hand detection followed by tracking; then hand is segmented using motion and color cues; finally, in order to break the limitation of aspect ratio encountered in most of learning based hand gesture methods, the scale-space feature detection is integrated into gesture recognition. Applying the proposed method to navigation of image browsing, experimental results show that our method achieves satisfactory performance.