Shape-based posture and gesture recognition in videos

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5682, Issue , 2005, Pages 114-124

  Kopf, Stephan ^a   Haenselmann, Thomas ^a   Effelsberg, Wolfgang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANNHEIM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Curvature scale space; Posture and gesture recognition; Shape analysis

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); CURVE FITTING; FEATURE EXTRACTION; MATRIX ALGEBRA; MOTION COMPENSATION; SEMANTICS;

CONVEX SEGMENTS; CURVATURE SCALE SPACE; POSTURE RECOGNITION; SHAPE ANALYSIS;

GESTURE RECOGNITION;

EID: 21844457437     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.587946     Document Type: Conference Paper

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