A Novel System for Deep Analysis of Large-Scale Hand Pose Datasets

Sammanfattning: This degree project proposes the design and the implementation of a novel systemfor deep analysis on large-scale datasets of hand poses. The system consists of a set ofmodules for automatic redundancy removal, classification, statistical analysis andvisualization of large-scale datasets based on their content characteristics. In thisproject, work is performed on the specific use case of images of hand movements infront of smartphone cameras. The characteristics of the images are investigated, andthe images are pre-processed to reduce repetitive content and noise in the data. Twodifferent design paradigms for content analysis and image classification areemployed, a computer vision pipeline and a deep learning pipeline. The computervision pipeline incorporates several stages of image processing including imagesegmentation, hand detection as well as feature extraction followed by a classificationstage. The deep learning pipeline utilizes a convolutional neural network forclassification. For industrial applications with high diversity on data content, deeplearning is suggested for image classification and computer vision is recommendedfor feature analysis. Finally, statistical analysis is performed to visually extractrequired information about hand features and diversity of the classified data. Themain contribution of this work lies in the customization of computer vision and deeplearning tools for the design and the implementation of a hybrid system for deep dataanalysis.