VEHICLE, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME AND GESTURE RECOGNITION APPARATUS THEREIN

摘要

Provided is a vehicle including a storage unit that stores a vein pattern lookup table including a plurality of reference vein pattern images according to a rotation angle of a driver's hand. The vehicle also includes an image acquisition unit that acquires a driver's image including an image of the driver's hand. The vehicle also includes a controller that extracts a vein pattern image of the driver's hand from the driver's image, authenticates the driver by comparing the vein pattern image with the vein pattern lookup table, and determines a gesture of the driver including at least one of a position of the driver's hand, a direction directed by the driver's hand and a rotation angle of the driver's hand based on the vein pattern image.