Research Article

Lower Order Krawtchouk Moment-Based Feature-Set for Hand Gesture Recognition

Table 1

Comparison of recognition accuracies of Hu moments, Zernike moments, and Krawtchouk moment.

Feature set (up to 3rd order)-NN using ED ()-NN using MD ()SVMMLPELM
PolyRBFPUKPolyRBFLinear

Raw feature-set for ISL database
Hu moments (7 features)66.9%67.8%67.9%70%71.1%70.2%70.2%69.2%70%
Zernike moments (6 features)77.6%74.3%73.5%76%78%75.1%76.2%76%75.4%
Krawtchouk moments (9 features)84.9%85.3%82.9%83.5%84.9%84.5%66.2%65.4%66.1%

Normalized feature-set for ISL database
Hu moments (7 features)68%68.3%70.2%70.4%71.9%70.1%70.8%70.2%70.2%
Zernike moments (6 features)78.2%75.7%79%79.4%79.6%78%79.7%79%78.4%
Krawtchouk moments (9 features) 85.5%85.9%85.9%84.8%85.9%85.2%70.7%70.2%70.1%