Signal and Information Processing

Local Mean Pattern Texture Descriptor for Gesture Recognition

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  • 1. School of Film and TV Arts Technology, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200072, China
    2. School of Computer Engineering and Science, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200072, China
    3. School of Software Technology, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450002, China

Received date: 2011-09-06

  Revised date: 2011-11-13

  Online published: 2011-11-13

Abstract

 This paper presents an improved local binary pattern (LBP) descriptor, known as the local mean pattern (LMP), to classify static gestures. We select original gesture images, nonlinear illumination images,Gaussian blurred images, and images contaminated by salt and pepper noise, calculate their LMP, LBP and
local angular phase (LAP) descriptor. The gentle_Adaboost classification algorithm is used for training and verifying these gesture features. The descriptor makes full use of correlation and difference of pixel gray values in certain regions. It is a good description for the characteristics of different gesture images. Experiment results show that LMP descriptor outperforms LBP and LAP. Classification accuracy of LMP descriptor reaches 95%.  The descriptor is robust to nonlinear illumination and Gaussian blur.

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DING You-dong1, PANG Hai-bo2,3, WU Xue-chun2, WEI Xiao-cheng2 . Local Mean Pattern Texture Descriptor for Gesture Recognition[J]. Journal of Applied Sciences, 2013 , 31(5) : 526 -532 . DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.0255-8297.2013.05.013

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