Finger gesture recognition through sweep sensor

Pong C. Yuen, W. W. Zou, S. B. Zhang, Kelvin K.F. Wong, Hoson H.S. Lam

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Abstract

Fingerprint sensor becomes more and more popular, and has been installed in many electronic devices, ranging from portable mobile devices to high-end personal computers. With the high penetration power of fingerprint sensor, this paper proposes to make use of finger gesture as a natural physical input device through a sweep fingerprint sensor which is small, compact and cost effective. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first attempt to perform finger gesture recognition on sweep sensor. The contributions of this paper are threefold. First, we define a set of finger motion features for finger gesture recognition. Second, we develop an efficient algorithm to detect the finger motion features. Finally, we propose and develop an efficient algorithm to recognize four finger gestures. Experimental results show that the proposed method could recognize four gestures with 95% accuracy. The computational time to recognize one finger gesture is less than 70 ms in a standard PC. The encouraging results show that the proposed finger gesture recognition algorithm is ready to be deployed to consumer electronics and provides a new mean for natural input.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication1st ACM International Workshop on Interactive Multimedia for Consumer Electronics - IMCE'09, Co-located with the 2009 ACM International Conference on Multimedia, MM'09
Pages11-17
Number of pages7
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2009
Event1st ACM International Workshop on Interactive Multimedia for Consumer Electronics - IMCE'09, Co-located with the 2009 ACM International Conference on Multimedia, MM'09 - Beijing, China
Duration: 19 Oct 200924 Oct 2009

Publication series

Name1st ACM International Workshop on Interactive Multimedia for Consumer Electronics - IMCE'09, Co-located with the 2009 ACM International Conference on Multimedia, MM'09

Conference

Conference1st ACM International Workshop on Interactive Multimedia for Consumer Electronics - IMCE'09, Co-located with the 2009 ACM International Conference on Multimedia, MM'09
Country/TerritoryChina
CityBeijing
Period19/10/0924/10/09

Scopus Subject Areas

  • Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design
  • Software
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering

User-Defined Keywords

  • Finger gesture
  • Interactivity
  • Sweep sensor

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