The extraction of the characteristics of an image of the hand in the aim to know his posture

Hello, My aim is to extract the features of an image containing a hand (

) in the goal to know its posture and I want to have your opinion concerning the existing methods of extraction features and what are those most suited for this problem. Thank you for your help.

Answer 1

[Image Analyst]

Find algorithms here: http://www.visionbib.com/bibliography/contentspeople.html#Face%20Recognition,%20Detection,%20Tracking,%20Gesture%20Recognition,%20Fingerprints,%20Biometrics

[jenny jenny]

Thank you for your answer sure. I have one more question, i found a method here name is "HOG" it is applicable to the recognition of the posture of the hand ? thank you soo much

[Image Analyst]

I don't know - I don't do gesture recognition.

[jenny jenny]

Thank you sure for your message