Improvement of an intelligent room that detects hand waving motion for operation of home appliances
Takeshi Nagayasu, Hidetsugu Asano, Kenji Terabayashi, Kazunori Umeda · Society of Instrument and Control Engineers of Japan · 2011
In this paper, the intelligent room that was formerly proposed by our group is improved by improving the key functions of the room. An intelligent room is a room in which home appliances are operated using gestures, without any additional equipment and any restriction for positions. Three key functions: of hand color and of number of are improved. For detection of hand waving, resolution and sensitivity are improved, and consequently, of small finger waving motion is enabled. For skin color registration, simultaneous processing with of finger waving is achieved. And for recognition of number of fingers, a new method that uses Snakes is introduced and robustness of the process is greatly improved. Additionally, a system to control a TV set with only hand waving is constructed.