Recognition of hand raising gestures for a remote learning application

8th International Workshop on Image Analysis for Multimedia Interactive Services, WIAMIS 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages

  Kapralos, Bill ^a   Hogue, Andrew ^b   Sabri, Hamed ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ONTARIO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Canada)

^b YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL GRAMMARS; DISTANCE EDUCATION; HELIUM; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; MARKOV PROCESSES; MULTIMEDIA SERVICES; OBJECT RECOGNITION; SCHOOL BUILDINGS; STUDENTS;

COMPLEX PROBLEMS; DISTANCE LEARNING (DL); HAND GESTURES; HAND MOTIONS; INTERNATIONAL (CO); MARKOV MODELLING; MOTION CUEING; MULTIMEDIA INTERACTIVE SERVICES; OMNI DIRECTIONAL; REMOTE LEARNING;

HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS;

EID: 46749152215     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WIAMIS.2007.72     Document Type: Conference Paper

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