Overview

We have developed a gesture recognition algorithm using a real-time range scanner (Digiclops), examined the effectiveness of colorspace transform and distribution modeling approaches for skin detection which was used for hand detection, and applied it for tracking hand in virtual human tasks.

Team Members

• UNC Charlotte : Min C. Shin, Ph.D, Steve Schmugge
• Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory : Leonid V. Tsap, Ph.D.

Supports

• Video-Based Detection and Analysis of Chemical Threats, Dept of Homeland Security, 8/2005 - 12/2005, $15,000 (PI)
• Better Skin Detection in Video for Face and Gesture Recognition, Sun Microsystems, 8/2003, $95,820 (PI)

Publications

1. S. Schmugge, M. Zaffar, L. Tsap and M. Shin "Task-Based Evaluation of Skin Detection for Communication and Perceptual Interfaces", accepted to appear in Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation
2. Stephen J. Schmugge, Sriram Jayaram, Leonid V. Tsap, and Min C. Shin, "Objective Evaluation of Approaches of Skin Detection using ROC Analysis", Journal of Computer Vision and Image Understanding, in press.
3. A. Stevens, J. Hernandez, K. Johnsen, R. Dickerson, A. Raij, J. Jackson, M. Shin, J. Cendan, M. Duerson, B. Lok, D. Scott Lind,  "The Use of Virtual Patients to Teach Medical Students Communication Skills,"  American Journal of Surgery, Volume 191, Issue 6, June 2006, Pages 806-811
4. L. V. Tsap, and M. C. Shin, "Dynamic Disparity Adjustment and Histogram-Based Filtering of Range Data for Fast 3-D Hand Tracking," Journal of Digital Signal Processing, Volume 14, Issue 6, November 2004, pages 550-565
5. M. C. Shin, L. V. Tsap, and D. B. Goldgof, "Gesture Recognition Using Bezier Curves for Visualization Navigation from Registered 3-D Data," Journal of Pattern Recognition, Volume 37, Issue 5, May 2004, Pages 1011-1024
6. K. Johnsen, R. Dickerson, A. Raij, B. Lok, J. Jackson, M. Shin, J. Hernandez, A. Stevens, S. Lind, "Experiences in Using Immersive Virtual Characters to Educate Medical Communication Skills,"  Proceedings of IEEE Virtual Reality 2005 (29/111)
7. S. Jayaram, S. Schmugge, M. C. Shin, and L. V. Tsap, "Effect of Colorspace Transformation, the Illuminance Component, and Color Modeling on Skin Detection," Proceedings of IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Washington, D.C., June 2004 (256/873).
8. M. C. Shin, L. V. Tsap, and D. B. Goldgof, "Towards Perceptual Interface for Visualization Navigation of Large Data Sets," IEEE Workshop on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition for Human Computer Interaction, (held in conjuction with CVPR 2003), Madison, WI, August 2003.
9. M. C. Shin, K. I. Chang, and L. V. Tsap, "Does Colorspace Transformation Make Any Differerence on Skin Detection?" IEEE Workshop on Applications of Computer Vision, pg. 275-279, Orlando, FL, Dec 2002 (55/149)