Cluster labeling and parameter estimation for the automated setup of a hand-gesture recognition system

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Part A:Systems and Humans

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 932-944

  Wachs, Juan P ^a   Stern, Helman ^a   Edan, Yael ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Automated setup; Cluster labeling; Fuzzy c means; Gesture recognition; Hand gestures; Neighborhood search; Supervised clustering; Telerobotics

Indexed keywords

CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; FUZZY SETS; HEURISTIC METHODS; ITERATIVE METHODS; LINEAR PROGRAMMING; OPTIMIZATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION SYSTEMS; ROBOTICS;

AUTOMATED SETUP; CLUSTER LABELING; HAND GESTURES; NEIGHBORHOOD SEARCH; SUPERVISED CLUSTERING; TELEROBOTICS;

GESTURE RECOGNITION;

EID: 27744582220     PISSN: 10834427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSMCA.2005.851332     Document Type: Article

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