• 한국정보통신학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국해양정보통신학회 2004년도 춘계종합학술대회
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• pp.616-619
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• 2004

As interests Un virtual reality being increased, the importance of HCI(Human computer interaction) field using gesture is also increased. However, in the preceding gesture recognition, the requirement of high-cost peripheral equipments limits users right. In this paper we suggest that through using low cost of USB PC-camera users are allowed to have more flexibly and cost down so that it can be adopted much commonly.

• 대한인간공학회지
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• 제34권5호
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• pp.541-548
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• 2015

Objective: We introduce a hand gesture segmentation method using a wrist-worn wearable device which can recognize simple gestures of clenching and unclenching ones' fist. Background: There are many types of smart watches and fitness bands in the markets. And most of them already adopt a gesture interaction to provide ease of use. However, there are many cases in which the malfunction is difficult to distinguish between the user's gesture commands and user's daily life motion. It is needed to develop a simple and clear gesture segmentation method to improve the gesture interaction performance. Method: At first, we defined the gestures of making a fist (start of gesture command) and opening one's fist (end of gesture command) as segmentation gestures to distinguish a gesture. The gestures of clenching and unclenching one's fist are simple and intuitive. And we also designed a single gesture consisting of a set of making a fist, a command gesture, and opening one's fist in order. To detect segmentation gestures at the bottom of the wrist, we used a wrist strap on which an array of infrared sensors (emitters and receivers) were mounted. When a user takes gestures of making a fist and opening one's a fist, this changes the shape of the bottom of the wrist, and simultaneously changes the reflected amount of the infrared light detected by the receiver sensor. Results: An experiment was conducted in order to evaluate gesture segmentation performance. 12 participants took part in the experiment: 10 males, and 2 females with an average age of 38. The recognition rates of the segmentation gestures, clenching and unclenching one's fist, are 99.58% and 100%, respectively. Conclusion: Through the experiment, we have evaluated gesture segmentation performance and its usability. The experimental results show a potential for our suggested segmentation method in the future. Application: The results of this study can be used to develop guidelines to prevent injury in auto workers at mission assembly plants.

• 정보처리학회논문지:소프트웨어 및 데이터공학
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• 제1권2호
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• pp.127-136
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• 2012

각종 지능형 전자장비의 개발과 사용자 편의성 증대를 위해 영상기반의 손 동작 인식시스템이 다양하게 개발, 적용되고 있다. 손 동작 인식을 위해 손의 3차원 위치를 계산하고 오 동작 방지를 위해 명령 동작을 다른 유사동작과 구분하여 정확히 검출해야 한다. 본 논문에서는 설치가 쉽고 저렴한 비용으로 3차원 위치를 계산하는 시스템과 다양한 유사 동작 중 정의된 동작만을 검출해 내는 방법에 대해 다룬다. 팬/틸트 가능한 두 대의 USB 카메라와 표식을 이용하여 카메라를 임의의 위치에 두더라도 부착된 표식을 통해 자동으로 두 카메라간 상대위치를 구해 3차원 위치를 계산할 수 있다. 사용자의 명령 동작을 다른 유사 동작과 구분하기 위해 퍼지 가비지 모델을 개발 하였는데 퍼지 명령모델과 가비지 모델 두 가지를 이용하여 행동 인식에 대한 가변적 문턱 값을 구할 수 있다. 또한 두 단계의 적응 과정을 통해 각 사용자마다 다르게 나타나는 행동 특성 및 동일 사용자가 환경에 따라 다르게 나타내는 행동 특성을 반영 하여 성능을 개선한다. 개발된 시스템을 5명의 사용자를 대상으로 실험을 실시하였는데 명령 동작과 하나의 유사동작만 있을 경우 95% 이상, 다양한 유사동작이 혼재되어 있을 경우 85%이상의 인식률(명령 동작 검출)을 보였다.

• 한국초등과학교육학회지:초등과학교육
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• 제31권4호
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• pp.450-462
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• 2012

Gestures are a common phenomenon of human communication. There exists little research concerned with the gestures in science education, and most researches of gestures have focused on individual gestures. However, learning occurs through sociocultural interactions with friends, family, teachers, and others in society. Hence, the purpose of this study was to investigate and identify the types and features of gestures which were made by elementary students to communicate with peers in science discourse. A group of six fourth-graders was observed in eight science discourses where they talked about ideas related to thermal concepts. The data was collected through interviews and questionnaires. The analysis of the data showed that students' gestures in science discourses could be classified into seven types: signal iconic gesture, illustrative iconic gesture, personal deictic gesture, object deictic gesture, beat gesture, emotional metaphoric gesture, and content metaphoric gesture. It was also found that these gestures had functions of repeating, supplementing, and replacing utterance to communicate with others. Students frequently expressed scientific terms metaphorically as everyday terms through their gestures. Gestures were shared, imitated, and transferred in the communication process, and students' gestures also made influence on other students' ideas through these processes.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제16권12호
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• pp.1393-1402
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• 2013

Hand gesture is one of the most popular communication methods in everyday life. In human-computer interaction applications, hand gesture recognition provides a natural way of communication between humans and computers. There are mainly two methods of hand gesture recognition: glove-based method and vision-based method. In this paper, we propose a vision-based hand gesture recognition method using Kinect. By using the depth information is efficient and robust to achieve the hand detection process. The finger labeling makes the system achieve pose classification according to the finger name and the relationship between each fingers. It also make the classification more effective and accutate. Two kinds of gesture sets can be recognized by our system. According to the experiment, the average accuracy of American Sign Language(ASL) number gesture set is 94.33%, and that of general gestures set is 95.01%. Since our system runs in real-time and has a high recognition rate, we can embed it into various applications.

• 한국콘텐츠학회논문지
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• 제11권3호
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• pp.179-189
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• 2011

제스처는 인체의 비언어적 의미표현 전달방법 중 하나로 애니메이션에서는 인물 캐릭터들 통해 표현된다. 효율적인 제스처 표현을 위해서는 애니메이터들의 드로잉 능력과 함께 제스처의 지식기반이 요구된다. 하지만 이러한 지식기반은 다양한 전공자들을 필요로 하기 때문에 일반적인 드로잉 작가가 모든 내용을 인지하고 표현하기에는 어려운 점이 있다. 본 연구에서는 이러한 다양한 지식 기반의 학습이 요구되는 제스처 표현방법을 라반의 움직임이론과 제스처들을 패킷으로 분류하는 방법으로 각각의 제스처 특징들을 분석하고, 분석된 데이터들을 이용하여 애니메이터들에게 효율적인 제스처 표현방법과 제스처 자동생성의 기반을 마련하고자 하였다.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제21권11호
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• pp.1034-1037
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• 2015

In recent years in the field of robotics, various methods have been developed to create an intimate relationship between people and robots. These methods include speech, vision, and biometrics recognition as well as gesture-based interaction. These recognition technologies are used in various wearable devices, smartphones and other electric devices for convenience. Among these technologies, gesture recognition is the most commonly used and appropriate technology for wearable devices. Gesture recognition can be classified as contact or noncontact gesture recognition. This paper proposes contact gesture recognition with IMU and EMG sensors by using the hidden Markov model (HMM) twice. Several simple behaviors make main gestures through the one-stage HMM. It is equal to the Hidden Markov model process, which is well known for pattern recognition. Additionally, the sequence of the main gestures, which comes from the one-stage HMM, creates some higher-order gestures through the two-stage HMM. In this way, more natural and intelligent gestures can be implemented through simple gestures. This advanced process can play a larger role in gesture recognition-based UX for many wearable and smart devices.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제33권5C호
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• pp.371-377
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• 2008

본 논문은 비전에 기반한 사람의 양팔 제스처의 모델링과 인식에 관한 연구이다. 우리는 양팔 제스처 인식을 위한 특징점의 추출에서부터 제스처의 분류에 이르는 전체적 틀을 제안하였다. 먼저, 양팔 제스처의 모델링을 위해 색채 기반의 양손 추적 방법을 제안하였고, 추출된 양손의 궤적 정보를 효과적으로 선택하게 하는 제스처 구(Phrase) 분석법을 제시하였다. 선택된 특징 점들의 시퀀스(sequence) 들로 이루어진 훈련 데이터들의 최대 공통부열(Longest Common Subsequence) 정보를 이용하여 제스처를 모델링하고 이에 따른 유사도 척도를 제안하였다. 제안된 방법론을 공항 등에서 이용하는 항공기 유도 수신호에 적용하였고, 실험을 통해 제안된 방법론의 효율성과 인식성능을 보였다.

• International Journal of Fuzzy Logic and Intelligent Systems
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• 제15권3호
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• pp.186-191
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• 2015

Hand gesture is the most common tool used to interact with and control various electronic devices. In this paper, we propose a novel hand gesture recognition method using fuzzy logic based classification with a new type of sensor array. In some cases, feature patterns of hand gesture signals cannot be uniquely distinguished and recognized when people perform the same gesture in different ways. Moreover, differences in the hand shape and skeletal articulation of the arm influence to the process. Manifold features were extracted, and efficient features, which make gestures distinguishable, were selected. However, there exist similar feature patterns across different hand gestures, and fuzzy logic is applied to classify them. Fuzzy rules are defined based on the many feature patterns of the input signal. An adaptive neural fuzzy inference system was used to generate fuzzy rules automatically for classifying hand gestures using low number of feature patterns as input. In addition, emotion expression was conducted after the hand gesture recognition for resultant human-robot interaction. Our proposed method was tested with many hand gesture datasets and validated with different evaluation metrics. Experimental results show that our method detects more hand gestures as compared to the other existing methods with robust hand gesture recognition and corresponding emotion expressions, in real time.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 제어로봇시스템학회 2004년도 ICCAS
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• pp.1106-1110
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• 2004

A human sign language is generally composed of both static and dynamic gestures. Each gesture is represented by a hand shape, its position, and hand movement (for a dynamic gesture). One of the problems found in automated sign language translation is on segmenting a hand movement that is part of a transitional movement from one hand gesture to another. This transitional gesture conveys no meaning, but serves as a connecting period between two consecutive gestures. Based on the observation that many dynamic gestures as appeared in Thai sign language dictionary are of quasi-periodic nature, a method was developed to differentiate between a (meaningful) dynamic gesture and a transitional movement. However, there are some meaningful dynamic gestures that are of non-periodic nature. Those gestures cannot be distinguished from a transitional movement by using the signal quasi-periodicity. This paper proposes a hybrid method using a combination of the periodicity-based gesture segmentation method with a HMM-based gesture classifier. The HMM classifier is used here to detect dynamic signs of non-periodic nature. Combined with the periodic-based gesture segmentation method, this hybrid scheme can be used to identify segments of a transitional movement. In addition, due to the use of quasi-periodic nature of many dynamic sign gestures, dimensionality of the HMM part of the proposed method is significantly reduced, resulting in computational saving as compared with a standard HMM-based method. Through experiment with real measurement, the proposed method's recognition performance is reported.