A neural-network-based approach to recognizing 3D arm movements

Biomedical Engineering - Applications, Basis and Communications

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 17-26

  Su, Mu Chun ^a   Zhao, Yu Xiang ^b   Lai, Eugene ^b  

^a NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b TAMKANG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Assistive technology; Gesture recognition; Human computer interface; Neural networks

Indexed keywords

DATABASE SYSTEMS; GESTURE RECOGNITION; MARKOV PROCESSES; NEURAL NETWORKS;

ARM MOVEMENTS;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARM MOVEMENT; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DATA BASE; EVALUATION; GESTURE; HUMAN; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PROBABILITY; RECOGNITION; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; STATISTICAL MODEL;

EID: 0037465188     PISSN: 10162372     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4015/S1016237203000043     Document Type: Article

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