Controlling Media Player with Hands: A Transformer Approach and a Quality of Experience Assessment
Abstract
1 Introduction
2 Related Work
2.1 Hand Gesture Recognition
2.2 QoE Assessment of Hand Gesture-Based HCIs
3 Proposed HGR Solution for Controlling Media Players
3.1 Considered Scenario
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3.2 The Proposed Solution
3.2.1 Scene Acquisition.
3.2.2 Hand Detection.
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3.2.3 Gesture Recognition.
3.3 Performance Results
3.3.1 Comparison of HGR Accuracy on the NVIDIA Dataset.
Method | Accuracy | |
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Unimodal (Color) | Multimodal | |
\(HOG+HOG^2\) [28] | 0.245 | 0.369 (color + depth) |
Simonyan and Zisserman[36] | 0.546 | 0.656 (color + flow) |
Wang et al. [42] | 0.591 | 0.734 (color + flow) |
C3D [37] | 0.693 | – |
R3DCNN [25] | 0.741 | 0.838 (color + depth + flow + IR) |
GPM [15] | 0.759 | 0.878 (color + depth + flow + IR) |
PreRNN [44] | 0.765 | 0.850 (color + depth) |
Transformer [12] | 0.765 | 0.876 (color + depth + normals + IR) |
ResNeXt-101 [19] | 0.786 | – |
MTUT [1] | 0.813 | 0.869 (color + depth + flow) |
Yu et al. [45] | 0.836 | 0.884 (color + depth) |
DT-HGR (Ours) | 0.853 | – |
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3.3.2 HGR Performance on the Dataset in [13].
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Gesture | Accuracy | Precision | Recall |
---|---|---|---|
17 | 0.99 | 0.98 | 0.97 |
19 | 0.99 | 0.98 | 0.98 |
20 | 0.99 | 0.98 | 0.98 |
24 | 0.99 | 0.98 | 0.97 |
25 | 0.97 | 0.94 | 0.92 |
26 | 0.97 | 0.95 | 0.93 |
4 QoE Assessment
4.1 Methodology
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Video player | Hand | Mouse | Keyboard |
---|---|---|---|
control | gesture | ||
Stop | 17 | Left click on the “Stop” button | S key |
Increase volume | 19 | Mouse wheel up | Arrow up key |
Decrease volume | 20 | Mouse wheel down | Arrow down key |
Play/Pause | 24 | Left click on the “Play/Pause” button | Spacebar key |
Previous video | 25 | Left click on the “Previous video” button | P key |
Next video | 26 | Left click on the “Next video” button | N key |
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4.2 Evaluation
5 QoE Results
5.1 Objective Quality
Video | Hand gestures | Mouse | Keyboard | ||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
control | # Miss | # Err. | PScore | # Miss | # Err. | PScore | # Miss | # Err. | PScore |
Play/Pause | 1 | 1 | 93.33% | 2 | 0 | 93.33% | 2 | 0 | 93.33% |
Stop | 2 | 0 | 93.33% | 0 | 1 | 96.67% | 1 | 2 | 90% |
Next/Prev. | 3 | 3 | 90% | 0 | 1 | 98.33% | 3 | 2 | 91.67% |
Incr./decr. | 1 | 4 | 91.67% | 0 | 0 | 100% | 0 | 2 | 96.67% |
Overall | 7 | 8 | 91.67% | 2 | 2 | 97.78% | 6 | 6 | 93.33% |
5.2 Subjective Quality
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6 Conclusion
References
Index Terms
- Controlling Media Player with Hands: A Transformer Approach and a Quality of Experience Assessment
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