An Overview of Kinect Based Gesture Recognition Methods

Abstract

Visual sensors play an important role in a broad variety of robotic systems applications. Even though Kinect technology appeared over 10 years ago, Kinect sensors are still actively employed by researchers around the world. This paper presents an overview of Kinect and Kinect 2 sensors’ applications in a human gesture based control. We analyzed existing research papers to estimate a popularity of particular feature extraction and gesture recognition methods, recommendations on a distance between an object of interest and a sensor, reported accuracy and latency of the sensor. Our analysis is supposed to facilitate a selection of a suitable combination of methods for a particular application of Kinect sensor in gesture recognition while considering its performance.