3D Hand Pose Estimation by Finding Appearance-Based Matches in a Large Database of Training Views
Date
2001
DOI
Authors
Athitsos, Vassilis
Sclaroff, Stan
Version
OA Version
Citation
Abstract
Ongoing work towards appearance-based 3D hand pose estimation from a single image is presented. A large database of synthetic hand views is generated using a 3D hand model and computer graphics. The views display different hand shapes as seen from arbitrary viewpoints. Each synthetic view is automatically labeled with parameters describing its hand shape and viewing parameters. Given an input image, the system retrieves the most similar database views, and uses the shape and viewing parameters of those views as candidate estimates for the parameters of the input image. Preliminary results are presented, in which appearance-based similarity is deļ¬ned in terms of the chamfer distance between edge images.