Perceiving Systems Conference Paper 2013

A Comparison of Directional Distances for Hand Pose Estimation

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Benchmarking methods for 3d hand tracking is still an open problem due to the difficulty of acquiring ground truth data. We introduce a new dataset and benchmarking protocol that is insensitive to the accumulative error of other protocols. To this end, we create testing frame pairs of increasing difficulty and measure the pose estimation error separately for each of them. This approach gives new insights and allows to accurately study the performance of each feature or method without employing a full tracking pipeline. Following this protocol, we evaluate various directional distances in the context of silhouette-based 3d hand tracking, expressed as special cases of a generalized Chamfer distance form. An appropriate parameter setup is proposed for each of them, and a comparative study reveals the best performing method in this context.

Author(s): Dimitrios Tzionas and Juergen Gall
Book Title: German Conference on Pattern Recognition (GCPR)
Volume: 8142
Pages: 131--141
Year: 2013
Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Editors: Weickert, Joachim and Hein, Matthias and Schiele, Bernt
Publisher: Springer
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Bibtex Type: Conference Paper (inproceedings)
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-40602-7_14
URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-40602-7_14
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@inproceedings{GCPR_2013_Tzionas_Gall,
  title = {A Comparison of Directional Distances for Hand Pose Estimation},
  booktitle = {German Conference on Pattern Recognition (GCPR)},
  abstract = {Benchmarking methods for 3d hand tracking is still an open problem due to the difficulty of acquiring ground truth data. 
  We introduce a new dataset and benchmarking protocol that is insensitive to the accumulative error of other protocols. 
  To this end, we create testing frame pairs of increasing difficulty and measure the pose estimation error separately for each of them. 
  This approach gives new insights and allows to accurately study the performance of each feature or method without employing a full tracking pipeline. 
  Following this protocol, we evaluate various directional distances in the context of silhouette-based 3d hand tracking, expressed as special cases of a generalized Chamfer distance form. 
  An appropriate parameter setup is proposed for each of them, and a comparative study reveals the best performing method in this context.},
  volume = {8142},
  pages = {131--141},
  series = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
  editors = {Weickert, Joachim and Hein, Matthias and Schiele, Bernt},
  publisher = {Springer},
  year = {2013},
  slug = {gcpr_2013_tzionas_gall},
  author = {Tzionas, Dimitrios and Gall, Juergen},
  url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-40602-7_14}
}