Modeling for gesture set design toward realizing effective human-vehicle interface

Intuitive driver-to-vehicle interface is highly desirable as we experience rapid increase of vehicle device complexity in modern day automobile. This paper addresses the gesture mode of interface and proposes an effective gesture language set capable of providing automotive control via hand gesture as natural but safe human-vehicle interface. Gesture language set is designed based on practical motions of single hand gesture. Proposed language set is optimized for in-vehicle imaging environment. Feature mapping for recognition is achieved using hidden Markov model which effectively captures the hand motion descriptors. Representative experimental results indicate that the recognition performance of proposed language set is over 99%, which makes it promising for real vehicle application.