Musical gesture recognition for interactive angklung robot

Abstract

Angklung is traditional musical instrument from Indonesia that is usually played by many people. In an interactive playing session, a conductor may lead the players by using a special hand sign. It would be a good idea to use the same hand sign to command a musical robot, and thus a gesture recognition system was required. The system was built based on a kinect sensor. This paper reveals how to make use the data from the sensor for faster and more reliable recognition system.