A Low-Cost Natural User Interaction Based on a Camera Hand-Gestures Recognizer

Mohamed-Ikbel Boulabiar (1, 2) , Thomas Burger (3) , Franck Poirier (3) , Gilles Coppin (1, 2)

1 LUSSI - Département Logique des Usages, Sciences sociales et Sciences de l'Information
2 Lab-STICC_TB_CID_IHSEV
3 Lab-STICC - Laboratoire des sciences et techniques de l'information, de la communication et de la connaissance

The search for new simplified interaction techniques is mainly motivated by the improvements of the communication with interactive devices. In this paper, we present an interactive TVs module capable of recognizing human gestures through the PS3Eye low-cost camera. We recognize gestures by the tracking of human skin blobs and analyzing the corresponding movements. It provides means to control a TV in an ubiquitous computing environment. We also present a new free gestures icons library created to allow easy representation and diagramming.

Mots clés: natural gesture interaction; low-cost gesture recognition; in- teractive TV broadcast; ubiquitous computing

Domaines: Interface homme-machine [cs.HC]

Mohamed-Ikbel Boulabiar, Thomas Burger, Franck Poirier, Gilles Coppin. A Low-Cost Natural User Interaction Based on a Camera Hand-Gestures Recognizer. HCI International 2011, 2011, orlando (FL), United States. pp.214-221. ⟨hal-00816596⟩