An HMM-Based threshold model approach for gesture recognition

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

Volumn 21, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 961-973

  Lee, Hyeon Kyu ^a   Kim, Jin H ^b  

^a MICROSOFT   (United States)

^b Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Gesture spotting; Hand gesture; Hidden Markov Model; Pattern recognition; Relative entropy; Segmentation; State reduction; Threshold model

Indexed keywords

IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

GESTURE RECOGNITION; HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS; RELATIVE ENTROPY; STATE REDUCTION; THRESHOLD MODEL;

PATTERN RECOGNITION;

EID: 0033210184     PISSN: 01628828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/34.799904     Document Type: Article

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