Teaching Kinect for Windows to Read Your Hands

  • Lori Stone, Microsoft

One promising direction in the evolution of Kinect for Windows is enabling hand-gesture recognition. A machine-learning project uses a large, varied set of images of people’s hands to train Kinect to determine if a hand is open or closed. This enables the development of a handgrip detector, which could launch another step forward in natural user interfaces.

    • Portrait of Lori Stone

      Lori Stone

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