Real time appearance based hand tracking
Michael Donoser, Horst Bischof · Proceedings - International Conference on Pattern Recognition/Proceedings/International Conference on Pattern Recognition · 2008
This paper introduces a real-time method for tracking hands through image sequences. Our method combines efficiently calculated color likelihood maps with a modified version of the maximally stable extremal region (MSER)-tracker. The proposed algorithm allows to robustly track hands through image sequences and additionally provides accurate hand segmentations per frame. Experimental evaluation proves the high accuracy of the segmentation results and a first application for human-computer interaction is presented.