Apparatus, method and computer program for recognizing a gesture in a picture, and apparatus, method and computer program for controlling a device

摘要

An apparatus for recognizing gestures in a picture includes a Hough transformer configured to identify elements in the picture or in a pre-processed version of the picture as identified gesture elements and to obtain information about the identified gesture elements. The apparatus further includes a gesture description creator configured to obtain a gesture description while using the information about the identified gesture elements. Moreover, the apparatus includes a gesture classifier configured to compare the gesture description to a plurality of comparative gesture descriptions having gesture codes associated with them. The gesture classifier is configured to provide, as the result of the comparison, a gesture code of a recognized gesture.