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Recently, Motion Gestures, a Canadian gesture recognition software company invested by China Canada Angel Alliance (CCAA for short) managed by Zhongguancun Dahe Capital, signed a market cooperation agreement with STJ (Sense Things Japan), a Japanese enterprise, and Hancom MDS, a Korean enterprise, to join hands with Japanese and Korean enterprises to enter the non-contact service market.

Motion Gestures is a start-up company established in Waterloo, Canada, in 2016. The company provides a gesture recognition solution based on artificial intelligence (AI), which can build a gesture interface in a few minutes without additional programming or massive input of training data. This solution analyzes the shape and motion by dividing the hand joints and joints into 21 points, which is the principle of recognizing the user’s hand shape. Based on advanced AI technology, it greatly reduces the time and cost of gesture development.

Motion Gestures software can be used for near infrared (NIR) and depth (3D) cameras as well as regular (color) RGB cameras. Even ordinary cameras can recognize complex gestures such as tapping and swiping without using depth sensors. It can support various hardware (HW), such as programmable semiconductor (FPGA), microprocessor (MPU) and microcontroller (MCU), so it can be used in various industrial fields.

Motion gestures assign each hand a bone structure based on 21 joints through camera images, which is different from the traditional solution that regards hand images as BLOBs *. The position coordinates of all 21 joints were measured in real time. This method has four advantages:

(1) Precise and accurate hand tracking;

(2) Support various gesture recognition, and the recognition accuracy is close to 100%;

(3) Reduce the development cycle and cost of gesture recognition to 1/10;

(4) Whether it is physical or virtual reality, it can identify the position of the hand in the predetermined space;

In June this year, Motion Gestures signed a cooperation agreement with Hancom MDS, a Korean enterprise. Based on the cooperation agreement, Hancom MDS will enter the Korean non-contact service market by applying gesture recognition solutions to various industries such as cars, robots, smart homes, digital signage, household appliances, wearables and games.

Lee Chang yeol, CEO of Hancom MDS Innovation Business Department, said: “In the epidemic era, the trend of non face-to-face interaction will accelerate development in various industries.”

<Motion gesture gesture recognition solution. Provided by Hancom MDS>

On August 17, just two months later, Motion Gestures made progress in the Japanese market and signed a market cooperation agreement with the Japanese enterprise STJ (Sense Things Japan). STJ was founded in 2015, headquartered in Tokyo, mainly engaged in security related businesses, such as surveillance cameras; After sales business, such as dorareko, OBDII, etc. The parties aim to develop hand tracking and gesture recognition technology applications in the Japanese market using various types of cameras.

Motion Gestures believes that the company’s gesture tracking and recognition products are suitable for the next generation user interface of many products, such as cars, robots, elevators, self-service terminals, digital signage, AR/VR, games, smart homes, appliances and medical devices. As a “non-contact” user interface, it can be used as a preventive measure to prevent COVID-19 contact infection, which is currently a social problem.