Understanding gestures with systematic variations in movement dynamics

Pattern Recognition

Volumn 39, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 1633-1648

  Ong, Sylvie C W ^a   Ranganath, Surendra ^a   Venkatesh, Y V ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Bayesian networks; Classifier combination; Gesture recognition; Independent channels; Sign language recognition; Signer adaptation

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS; COMPUTER NETWORKS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; MOTION ESTIMATION; SET THEORY;

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; CLASSIFIER COMBINATION; INDEPENDENT CHANNELS; SIGN LANGUAGE RECOGNITION; SIGNER ADAPTATION;

GESTURE RECOGNITION;

EID: 33744981871     PISSN: 00313203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.patcog.2006.02.010     Document Type: Article

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