An algorithmic approach for static and dynamic gesture recognition utilising mechanical and biomechanical characteristics

International Journal of Bioinformatics Research and Applications

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 4-23

  Parvini, Farid ^a   Shahabi, Cyrus ^a  

^a University of Southern California   (United States)

Author keywords

American sign language; ASL; Bioinformatics; Device independent; Dynamic gesture; Gesture recognition; Multi stream human sensor data; Range of motion; Sensor data analysis; Static gesture; User independent

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; FINGER; GESTURE; HAND MOVEMENT; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MOTIVATION; RANGE OF MOTION; RECOGNITION; SIGN LANGUAGE;

EID: 33947500626     PISSN: 17445485     EISSN: 17445493     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJBRA.2007.011832     Document Type: Article

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