A survey of skin-color modeling and detection methods

P Kakumanu, S Makrogiannis, N Bourbakis - Pattern recognition, 2007 - Elsevier
Skin detection plays an important role in a wide range of image processing applications
ranging from face detection, face tracking, gesture analysis, content-based image retrieval …

Skin segmentation using color pixel classification: analysis and comparison

SL Phung, A Bouzerdoum… - IEEE transactions on …, 2005 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This work presents a study of three important issues of the color pixel classification approach
to skin segmentation: color representation, color quantization, and classification algorithm …

Sign based human-machine interaction

K Fujimura, X Liu - US Patent 7,308,112, 2007 - Google Patents
E05Y—INDEXING SCHEME RELATING TO HINGES OR OTHER SUSPENSION DEVICES
FOR DOORS, WINDOWS OR WINGS AND DEVICES FOR MOVING WINGS INTO OPEN OR …

Hand detection using multiple proposals

A Mittal, A Zisserman, PHS Torr - 2011 - ora.ox.ac.uk
We describe a two-stage method for detecting hands and their orientation in unconstrained
images. The first stage uses three complementary detectors to propose hand bounding …

Visual tracking using depth data

K Fujimura, H Nanda - US Patent 7,590,262, 2009 - Google Patents
Provi'al application No. 60/474,795, on 29'2'provisi all application NO_ 497,' Real-time
visual tracking using depth sensing camera tech? led on Aug 20, 2 nology, results in …

Bare-hand human-computer interaction

C Von Hardenberg, F Bérard - Proceedings of the 2001 workshop on …, 2001 - dl.acm.org
In this paper, we describe techniques for barehanded interaction between human and
computer. Barehanded means that no device and no wires are attached to the user, who …

[PDF][PDF] Robust Hand Detection.

M Kölsch, MA Turk - FGR, 2004 - schnell-michael.de
Vision-based hand gesture interfaces require fast and extremely robust hand detection.
Here, we study view-specific hand posture detection with an object recognition method …

Skin color-based video segmentation under time-varying illumination

L Sigal, S Sclaroff, V Athitsos - IEEE Transactions on pattern …, 2004 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A novel approach for real-time skin segmentation in video sequences is described. The
approach enables reliable skin segmentation despite wide variation in illumination during …

Target orientation estimation using depth sensing

K Fujimura, Y Zhu - US Patent 7,620,202, 2009 - Google Patents
Related US Application Data(57) ABSTRACT (60) Provisional application No. 60/478,211,
filed on Jun. A system for estimating orientation of a target based on 12, 2003. real-time …

Hand gesture recognition using depth data

X Liu, K Fujimura - … Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture …, 2004 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A method is presented for recognizing hand gestures by using a sequence of real-time
depth image data acquired by an active sensing hardware. Hand posture and motion …