MIT Developing System That Lets Aircraft Carrier Crews Guide Robot Planes With Hand Gestures

Posted on March 17, 2012

MIT researchers are developing technology that would enable aircraft-carrier crews to guide autonomous planes using ordinary hand gestures. MIT researchers say the problem of interpreting hand signals has two distinct parts. The first is simply inferring the body pose of the signaler from a digital image, such as are person's hands up or down and are the elbows in or out? The second problem is determining which specific gesture is depicted in a series of images.

MIT's Yale Song explains how they are developing a system that will let robot planes recognize human gestures being made by crew on aircraft carriers. Take a look:

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