Korea Institute of Science and Technology

Hwasup Lim

Sang Chul Ahn

Youngmin Kim

Jae-In Hwang

Sungkuk Chun

Facial expressions and whole-body gestures of a 3D character are provided based on facial expressions of a user and gestures of a hand puppet perceived using a depth camera.

Method and device for controlling 3D character using user's facial expressions and hand gestures

Disclosed is an apparatus for hand gesture recognition based on a depth image, which includes a depth image acquiring unit configured to acquire a depth image including a hand region, a depth point classifying unit configured to classify depth points of a hand region in the depth image according to a corresponding hand portion by means of a machine studying method, and a hand model matching unit configured to match a three-dimensional hand model with the classified depth points by using distances between the classified depth points and a hand portion respectively corresponding to the depth points. A recognition method using the apparatus is also disclosed.

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Hwasup Lim