Kathakali Hand Gesture Recognition With Minimal Data

arXiv:2404.11205v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: The Indian classical dance-drama Kathakali has a set of hand gestures called Mudras, which form the fundamental units of all its dance moves and postures. Recognizing the depicted mudra becomes one of the first steps in its digital processing. The work treats the problem as a 24-class classification task and proposes a vector-similarity-based approach using pose estimation, eliminating the need for further training or fine-tuning. This approach overcomes the challenge of data scarcity that limits …

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