Real-time hand posture recognition using range data

Image and Vision Computing

Volumn 26, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1027-1037

  Malassiotis, S ^a   Strintzis, M G ^a  

^a INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES INSTITUTE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Gesture; Hand; Range data; Real time

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; DATA ACQUISITION; IMAGE ACQUISITION; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; SENSORS;

HAND POSTURE RECOGNITION SYSTEMS; ROBUST UNCONSTRAINED RECOGNITION;

GESTURE RECOGNITION;

EID: 42249090374     PISSN: 02628856     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.imavis.2007.11.007     Document Type: Article

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