Simultaneous gesture segmentation and recognition based on forward spotting accumulative HMMs

Pattern Recognition

Volumn 40, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 3012-3026

  Kim, Daehwan ^a   Song, Jinyoung ^a   Kim, Daijin ^a  

^a Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Accumulative HMM; Association mapping; Competitive differential observation probability; Forward spotting; Gesture recognition; Gesture segmentation; Hidden Markov model; Smart home control

Indexed keywords

FEATURE EXTRACTION; HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; PROBABILITY; PROBLEM SOLVING; TIME DELAY;

ACCUMULATIVE HMM; ASSOCIATION MAPPING; COMPETITIVE DIFFERENTIAL OBSERVATION PROBABILITY; FORWARD SPOTTING; GESTURE SEGMENTATION; SMART HOME CONTROL;

GESTURE RECOGNITION;

EID: 34250853453     PISSN: 00313203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.patcog.2007.02.010     Document Type: Article

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