Recognition of facial movements and hand gestures using surface Electromyogram(sEMG) for HCI based applications

Proceedings - Digital Image Computing Techniques and Applications: 9th Biennial Conference of the Australian Pattern Recognition Society, DICTA 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 1-6

  Arjunan, Sridhar P ^a   Kumar, Dinesh K ^a  

^a RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER CONTROL; COMPUTER NETWORKS; COMPUTERS; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; SEPARATION; SPEECH; SURFACES;

DIGITAL IMAGE COMPUTING; EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS; FACIAL MOVEMENTS; HAND GESTURES; INDIVIDUAL (PSS 544-7); MUSCLE ACTIVATION; RESEARCH REPORTS; SCATTER PLOTS; SURFACE ELECTROMYOGRAM (SEMG); TWO DIFFERENT METHODS; UNVOICED SPEECH;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 44949113529     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/DICTA.2007.4426768     Document Type: Conference Paper

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