Initially, the face of the user gesticulating (if present) is detected and removed from the second frame of the video using the Viola—Jones algorithm [16, 17]. After the face is removed, skin filtering [8] is performed to obtain the skin- colored objects in the frame. On the other hand, three-frame differencing is performed with the first three frames. It is computed for both colored and grayscale frames. Morpho- logical operations are carried out as shown in Fig. 2 in order to achieve the desired results. The results of the skin filtering and three-frame differencing are combined to obtain the desired hand from the background. But, it has been observed that along with the desired hand, there is other small skin- colored objects in the surroundings. Thus, the largest binary linked object was filtered from the other objects which are considered to be the desired hand in the background. The hand detected is tracked using three steps such as initialization of tracking region, exaction of features from 2.2 Hand tracking Fig. 3 System architecture of proposed hand tracking Fig. 4 a Tracking result, b 8-bin segments of orientation and ¢ result histogram The self co-articulated strokes were detected after the smoothening of the gesture trajectory and removed from the In the next step, the system was checked for the pres- ence of any skin-colored static objects in the background which could lead to confusion with the hand. Thus, velocity information was added to remove the feature points corresponding to the static objects. The feature points having velocity less than a threshold value ((2 * Vayg/3) are rejected, where V,y, is the average velocity. After this, the orientation information was used to detect the direction along which the feature points are moving in the consecutive frames. Figure 4a shows an example where direction of orientation is shown with yellow lines. The red points correspond to the feature points in previous frame, and yellow points refer to feature points tracked in current frame. Firstly, the 360° is spited into 8 bins as shown in Fig. 4b. Then, all the velocity orientation of feature movements is calculated. Figure 4c shows the histogram of the direction of orientation. Finally, the bin corresponding with the most feature points is Fig. 5 Comparison of proposed hand detection algorithm with existing techniques (green: skin filtering, yellow: two-frame differ- encing, red: proposed detector) (color figure online) The feature selection was performed as described in Sect. 2.5. The ANOVA was used to find the F value of * p < 0.05 indicates statistical significance Table 2 Total set of features used in the system Table 3 Features ranked in the decreasing order of ‘F’ value The results of the ANN are presented in Table 4. The parameters of ANN such as hidden units and iterations were varied, and the corresponding train and test accuracies were calculated. The highest train and test accuracy were observed for network structure 40L-54N-40L (ZL and Fig. 6 Comparison of proposed tracking algorithm with existing techniques for gesture ‘Five’ (green: KLT, blue: CamShift, yellow: particle filter, red: proposed tracker) (color figure online) Table 4 Results using ANN N correspond to linear and nonlinear layers), itera- tions = 500. These network parameters were used for performing fivefold cross-validation. Cross-validation was performed to determine the validity of the proposed model. The results obtained during the cross-validation process are presented in Table 5. Table 7 Cross-validation results using SVM with ‘rbf’ kernel function Table 8 Results using kKNN Fig. 7 IFS curve of the combination of features Table 6 Results using SVM Table 5 5-fold cross-validation result using ANN classifier Table 9 Cross-validation results using KNN with k = 5 Table 10 Cross-validation results using classifier fusion Table 11 Comparison of success rate by different classifier using fivefold cross-validation Table 12 One-way analysis of variance test details SS sum of squares, df degree of freedom, MS mean squared error, F F- statistic Table 13 Friedman’s test details Chi-sq Chi square Table 14 Kruskal-Wallis test details Post hoc analysis was performed using Tukey’s HSD test for the three tests (one-way analysis of variance test, Fried- man’s test and Kruskal-Wallis test) to find out the most sig- nificantly different classifier. Figure 8 shows that the classifier fusion is significantly different from other classifiers. Fig. 9 Few samples of noisy data Fig. 8 Post hoc analysis using Tukey’s HSD test for a one-way analysis of variance test, b Friedman’s test and ¢ Kruskal-Wallis test (1-SVM 2-kKNN, 3-ANN, 4-fusion) literature, and thus, we developed ‘NITS hand gesture database IV.’ The proposed system can be used for developing a gesture-controlled hexadecimal keyboard making human-computer interaction easier. A total of 44 features were selected from the existing literature. ANOVA test was performed in order to check the statistical signif- icance of the 44 features. The 40 significant features were then arranged in the decreasing order of the F-static value which was then fed to the IFS to select the optimal features. The total number of features or the optimal features was observed to be 21, 18 and 26 for ANN, SVM and kNN, respectively. The results of the three individual classifiers were combined to provide the classifier fusion results. After this, fivefold cross-validation was used to provide the overall accuracy of the system. The overall accuracy was observed to be 90.58, 88.31, 87.82 and 92.23 % using the ANN, SVM, KNN and classifier fusion, respectively. To test the statistical significance between the different indi- vidual classifiers, we performed one-way analysis of vari- ance test, Friedman’s test and Kruskal—Wallis test on the results obtained from the fivefold cross-validation process. It was observed from these tests that the classifier fusion is significantly different from other classifiers. In this paper, we have developed a hand gesture recogni- tion system where 40 set of gestures were considered. As such, database for 40 set of gestures is not available in the
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