User identification approach based on simple gestures

We present an intuitive, implicit, gesture based identification system suited for applications such as the user login to home multimedia services, with less strict security requirements. The term “implicit gesture” in this work refers to a natural physical hand manipulation of the control device per...

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Main Authors: Guna, J., Stojmenova, E., Lugmayr, Artur, Humar, I., Pogacnik, M.
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Published: Springer 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/42853
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author Guna, J.
Stojmenova, E.
Lugmayr, Artur
Humar, I.
Pogacnik, M.
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Stojmenova, E.
Lugmayr, Artur
Humar, I.
Pogacnik, M.
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description We present an intuitive, implicit, gesture based identification system suited for applications such as the user login to home multimedia services, with less strict security requirements. The term “implicit gesture” in this work refers to a natural physical hand manipulation of the control device performed by the user, who picks it up from its neutral motionless position or shakes it. For reference with other related systems, explicit and well defined identification gestures were used. Gestures were acquired by an accelerometer sensor equipped device in a form of the Nintendo WiiMote remote controller. A dynamic time warping method is used at the core of our gesture based identification system. To significantly increase the computational efficiency and temporal stability, the “super-gesture” concept was introduced, where acceleration features of multiple gestures are combined in only one super-gesture template per each user. User evaluation spanning over a period of 10 days and including 10 participants was conducted. User evaluation study results show that our algorithm ensures nearly 100 % recognition accuracy when using explicit identification signature gestures and between 88 % and 77 % recognition accuracy when the system needs to distinguish between 5 and 10 users, using the implicit “pick-up” gesture. Performance of the proposed system is comparable to the results of other related works when using explicit identification gestures, while showing that implicit gesture based identification is also possible and viable.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-428532017-09-13T15:05:24Z User identification approach based on simple gestures Guna, J. Stojmenova, E. Lugmayr, Artur Humar, I. Pogacnik, M. Accelerometer Non-invasive Gesture Human-computer interaction User identification We present an intuitive, implicit, gesture based identification system suited for applications such as the user login to home multimedia services, with less strict security requirements. The term “implicit gesture” in this work refers to a natural physical hand manipulation of the control device performed by the user, who picks it up from its neutral motionless position or shakes it. For reference with other related systems, explicit and well defined identification gestures were used. Gestures were acquired by an accelerometer sensor equipped device in a form of the Nintendo WiiMote remote controller. A dynamic time warping method is used at the core of our gesture based identification system. To significantly increase the computational efficiency and temporal stability, the “super-gesture” concept was introduced, where acceleration features of multiple gestures are combined in only one super-gesture template per each user. User evaluation spanning over a period of 10 days and including 10 participants was conducted. User evaluation study results show that our algorithm ensures nearly 100 % recognition accuracy when using explicit identification signature gestures and between 88 % and 77 % recognition accuracy when the system needs to distinguish between 5 and 10 users, using the implicit “pick-up” gesture. Performance of the proposed system is comparable to the results of other related works when using explicit identification gestures, while showing that implicit gesture based identification is also possible and viable. 2014 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/42853 10.1007/s11042-013-1635-1 Springer restricted
spellingShingle Accelerometer
Non-invasive
Gesture
Human-computer interaction
User identification
Guna, J.
Stojmenova, E.
Lugmayr, Artur
Humar, I.
Pogacnik, M.
User identification approach based on simple gestures
title User identification approach based on simple gestures
title_full User identification approach based on simple gestures
title_fullStr User identification approach based on simple gestures
title_full_unstemmed User identification approach based on simple gestures
title_short User identification approach based on simple gestures
title_sort user identification approach based on simple gestures
topic Accelerometer
Non-invasive
Gesture
Human-computer interaction
User identification
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/42853