Robust real-Time human hand localization by self-organizing color segmentation

Proceedings - International Workshop on Recognition, Analysis, and Tracking of Faces and Gestures in Real-Time Systems, RATFG-RTS 1999

Volumn , Issue , 1999, Pages 161-166

  Wu, Ying ^a   Liu, Qiong ^a   Huang, Thomas S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS; COLOR; CONFORMAL MAPPING; FACE RECOGNITION; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; SELF ORGANIZING MAPS; SPEECH RECOGNITION; TRACKING (POSITION);

COLOR SEGMENTATION; COLOR-BASED SEGMENTATION; LOCALIZATION SYSTEM; NUMBER OF CLUSTERS; REAL-TIME APPLICATION; SEGMENTATION SCHEME; SELF-ORGANIZING CLUSTERING; TRACKING ALGORITHM;

REAL TIME SYSTEMS;

EID: 27844501231     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/RATFG.1999.799239     Document Type: Conference Paper

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