Parametric hidden Markov models for gesture recognition

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

Volumn 21, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 884-900

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

^a MIT MEDIA LAB   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER VISION; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PROBABILITY; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

EXPECTATION MAXIMIZATION ALGORITHMS; GESTURE RECOGNITION; PARAMETRIC HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS; TIME SERIES MODELING;

PATTERN RECOGNITION;

EID: 0033189911     PISSN: 01628828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/34.790429     Document Type: Article

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