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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 19, 2012
Filed:
Feb. 12, 2007
Hye Jin Kim, Incheon, KR;
Ho Sub Yoon, Daejeon, KR;
DO Hyung Kim, Daejeon, KR;
Jae Yeon Lee, Dejeon, KR;
Hye Jin Kim, Incheon, KR;
Ho Sub Yoon, Daejeon, KR;
Do Hyung Kim, Daejeon, KR;
Jae Yeon Lee, Dejeon, KR;
Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, Daejeon, KR;
Abstract
A gesture spotting detection method and apparatus employ a shoulder-line algorithm. The shoulder-line detecting method recognizes a GSD calling gesture that occurs in a shoulder-line, head or higher part in a remote distance or a short distance, although a user does not have a fixed posture. In the method, an image of people is received, and skin information of a person in the image is detected to detect a face area. Then, the cloth color information of the person is modeled from the inputted image to detect a cloth area. An external space is defined from the image based on the body space area, and an edge is extracted from the image based on the body space and the external space. Then, shoulder-line information is acquired based on an energy function obtained based on the body space, the external space, and the edge.