A Survey on Hand Gesture Recognition

Hand gesture recognition has become one of the key techniques of human-computer interaction (HCI). Many researchers are devoted in this field. In this paper, firstly the history of hand gesture recognition is discussed and the technical difficulties are also enumerated. Then, we analyze the definition of hand gesture and introduce the basic principle of it. The approaches for hand gesture recognition, such as vision-based, glove-based and depth-based, are contrasted briefly in this paper. But the former two methods are too simple and not natural enough. Currently, the new finger identification and hand gesture recognition technique with Kinect depth data is the most popular research direction. Finally, we discuss the application prospective of hand gesture recognition based on Kinect.