A state-based approach to the representation and recognition of gesture

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

Volumn 19, Issue 12, 1997, Pages 1325-1337

  Bobick, Aaron F ^a   Wilson, Andrew D ^a  

^a MIT MEDIA LAB   (United States)

Author keywords

Gesture prototype; Gesture recognition; Motion based recognition; State based representation

Indexed keywords

EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION; SENSOR DATA FUSION;

CONFIGURATION STATE REPRESENTATION; MOTION BASED GESTURE RECOGNITION;

PATTERN RECOGNITION;

EID: 0031379425     PISSN: 01628828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/34.643892     Document Type: Article

References (28)

1. A.F. Bobick and A.D. Wilson, "A State-Based Technique for the Summarization and Recognition of Gesture," Proc. Int'l Conf. Comp. Vis., 1995.
2. C. Bregler and S.M. Omohundro, "Nonlinear Image Interpolation Using Surface Learning," G. Tesauro, J.D. Cowan, and J. Alspector, eds., Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, vol. 6, pp. 43-50. San Francisco: Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, 1994.
3. E. Catmull and R. Rom, "A Class of Local Interpolating Splines," R. Barnhill and R. Riesenfeld, eds., Computer Aided Geometric Design, pp. 317-326. San Francisco: Academic Press, 1974.
4. C. Cedras and M. Shah, "Motion-Based Recognition: A Survey," Image and Vision Computing, vol. 13, no. 2, pp. 129-155, Mar. 1995.
5. Y. Cui and J. Weng, "Learning-Based Hand Sign Recognition," Proc. Int'l Workshop Automatic Face- and Gesture-Recognition, Zurich, 1995.
6. T.J. Darrell and A.P. Pentland, "Space-Time Gestures," Proc. Comp. Vis. and Pattern Rec., pp. 335-340,1993.
7. J.W. Davis and M. Shah, "Gesture Recognition," Proc. European Conf. Comp. Vis., pp. 331-340,1994.
8. K. Gould and M. Shah, "The Trajectory Primal Sketch: A MultiScale Scheme for Representing Motion Characteristics," Proc. Comp. Vis. and Pattern Rec., pp. 79-85,1989.
9. T. Hastie and W. Stuetzle, "Principal Curves," J. Amer. Statistical Assoc., vol. 84, no. 406, pp. 502-516,1989.
10. G. Johansson, "Visual Perception of Biological Motion and a Model for Its Analysis," Perception and Psychophysics, vol. 14, no. 2, pp. 201-211,1973.
11. A. Kendon, "How Gestures Can Become Like Words," F. Poyatos, ed., Cross-Cultural Perspectives in Nonverbal Communication. New York: C.J. Hogrefe, 1988.
12. J.S. Lipscomb, "A Trainable Gesture Recognizer," Pattern Recognition, vol. 24, no. 9, pp. 895-907,1991.
13. K.V. Mardia, N.M. Ghali, M. Howes, T.J. Hainsworth, and N. Sheehy, "Techniques for Online Gesture Recognition on Workstations," Image and Vision Computing, vol. 11, no. 5, pp. 283-294, 1993.
14. H. Murase and S. Nayar, "Learning and Recognition of 3D Objects From Appearance," Proc. IEEE Second Qualitative Vision Workshop, New York, June 1993.
15. H. Murase and S. Nayar, "Visual Learning and Recognition of 3D Objects From Appearance," Int'l J. Comp. Vis., vol. 14, pp. 5-24, 1995.
16. R. Polana and R. Nelson, "Low Level Recognition of Human Motion," Proc. Workshop Motion of Non-Rigid and Articulated Objects, pp. 77-82, Austin, Texas, Nov. 1994.
17. L.R. Rabiner and B.H. Juang, Fundamentals of Speech Recognition. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice Hall, 1993.
18. K. Rangarajan, W. Alien, and M. Shah, "Matching Motion Trajectories Using Scale-Space," Pattern Recognition, vol. 26, no. 4, pp. 595-610,1993.
19. K. Rohr, "Towards Model-Based Recognition of Human Movements in Image Sequences," Comp. Vis., Graph., and Img. Proc., vol. 59, no. 1, pp. 94-115,1994.
20. J. Schlenzig, E. Hunter, and R. Jain, "Recursive Identification of Gesture Inputs Using Hidden Markov Models," Proc. Second Annual Conf. Applications of Computer Vision, pp. 187-194, Dec. 1994.
21. J. Schlenzig, E. Hunter, and R. Jain, "Vision Based Hand Gesture Interpretation Using Recursive Estimation," Proc. 28th Asilomar Conf. Signals, Systems and Comp., Oct. 1994.
22. G. Sperling, M. Landy, Y. Cohen, and M. Pavel, "Intelligible Encoding of ASL Image Sequences at Extremely Low Information Rates," Comp. Vis., Graph., and Img. Proc., vol. 31, pp. 335-391, 1985.
23. T.E. Starner and A. Pentland, "Visual Recognition of American Sign Language Using Hidden Markov Models," Proc. Int'l Workshop Automatic Face- and Gesture-Recognition, Zurich, 1995.
24. A.I. Tew and C.J. Gray, "A Real-Time Gesture Recognizer Based on Dynamic Programming," J. Biomédical Eng., vol. 15, pp. 181187, May 1993.
25. M. Turk and A. Pentland, "Eigenfaces for Recognition," J. Cognitive Neuroscience, vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 71-86,1991.
26. A.D. Wilson and A.F. Bobick, "Learning Visual Behavior for Gesture Analysis," Proc. IEEE Int'l Symp. Comp. Vis., Coral Gables, Fla., Nov. 1995.
27. A.D. Wilson, A.F. Bobick, and J. Cassell, "Temporal Classification of Natural Gesture and Application to Video Coding," Proc. Comp. Vis. and Pattern Rec., pp. 948-954,1997.
28. J. Yamato, J. Ohya, and K. Ishii, "Recognizing Human Action in Time-Sequential Images Using Hidden Markov Model," Proc. Comp. Vis. and Pattern Rec., pp. 379-385,1992.