Peter Fillo
Hand Tracking and Gesture Recognition Using Echo State Neural Networks. Tracking an object in a video sequence is a complex problem which presents one of the fundamental task of image processing. One of the many use cases is controlling using hand gestures in Human-Computer Interaction. This paper introduces real-time hand recognition and tracking in video sequence with a classification of performed hand gestures. Hand recognition is based on foreground segmentation and skin region detection. Attributes of hand movements are being recorded and used as an input to a echo state neural network which performs hand gesture classification. Work presents proposed tracking algorithm and first results of gesture recognition.