Design of a Kinect Sensor Based Posture Recognition System

The posture recognition system based on Kinect sensor system is developed in this paper. The proposed posture recognition system contains semaphore signals, Kinect 3D sensor system, and self-organizing maps algorithm (SOM). The human-robot interaction is an intuitive and easy operation by posture recognition. However, there are not uniform postures to be a control action criterion. The flag semaphores are adopted in this paper. Then, information of skeleton point is collected by Kinect sensor. The SOM is utilized to analysis the posture information and to recognize the semaphore signal. In experiments, it notes that the posture recognition system can be accomplished to recognize the related semaphore signal.