Visual capture and understanding of hand pointing actions in a 3-D environment

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part B: Cybernetics

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 677-686

  Colombo, Carlo ^a   Del Bimbo, Alberto ^a   Valli, Alessandro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

3 D visual modeling and real time tracking; Computer vision; Hand pointing; Human computer interaction; User adapted

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; GESTURE RECOGNITION; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTICAL DEVICES; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; STEREO VISION; USER INTERFACES;

HAND POINTING ACTIONS; REAL TIME TRACKING; VISUAL CAPTURE;

COMPUTER VISION;

EID: 0042766983     PISSN: 10834419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSMCB.2003.814281     Document Type: Article

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