In traditional Chinese medicine, the growth situation of the surface of nails reflects the
physiological condition of the human body. Diagnosis by nail can effectively predict and …

Each and every human have unique fingernails. In the early days, the psychological
conditions of the human body were reflected with the help of the growth situation of the …

We think that hand pose estimation technologies with a camera should be developed for
character conversion systems from sign languages with a not so high performance terminal …

The digital image processing plays an important part in medical image. In traditional
Chinese medicine, the surface growth status of nails reflects the physiological condition of …

As far as we know, previous studies have only used color information for fingernail detection.
Images of the palm, however, have a lot of pixels that have the same color values as the …

No research group has developed practical “fingernail detection” technologies in hand
images including palm areas and/or wrist rotation angles, because the human palm has the …

The authors propose a new parameter definition method and nail chip transformation
method to superimpose nail chips onto dorsal-sided hand images with wrist rotation …

In the gesture interface, the technology for detecting positions and the number of nails from
the hand image will become an important factor. The intention of this research by our …

A fingernail detection method with the allowance of the palm existence proposed. However,
some fingernail areas cannot be extracted as nail candidate areas if they don't reflect …