Fusion of Image Contour Moments and Fourier Descriptors for the Hand Gesture Recognition

Hand is a highly variable organ and hand features are easily affected by environmental factors. Considering the characteristics of hand gesture, a novel hand gesture recognition algorithm based on hybrid moments is presented. First, According to the color cue, the hand shape is available to extract from the complicated background, then the contour moment invariant and Fourier Descriptor are extracted and fused into a hybrid feature, finally the hybrid feature are put into the BP network to identity. The experimental results show that the method has better robustness and higher recognition rate.