A comparison of skin history and trajectory-based representation schemes for the recognition of user-specified gestures

Pattern Recognition

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 999-1009

  McKenna, Stephen J ^a   Morrison, Kenny ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Composite history images; Gesture recognition; Hidden Markov models; Moment features; Skin history images

Indexed keywords

ERROR ANALYSIS; MARKOV PROCESSES; SKIN;

ERROR RATES; MARKOV MODELS;

GESTURE RECOGNITION;

IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION;

EID: 1842661967     PISSN: 00313203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.patcog.2003.09.007     Document Type: Article

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