Extraction of mid-level semantics from gesture videos using a Bayesian network

International Journal of Intelligent Systems Technologies and Applications

Volumn 1, Issue 3-4, 2006, Pages 359-375

  Kosmopoulos, Dimitrios I ^a   Maglogiannis, Ilias G ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF INFORMATICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE AEGEAN   (Greece)

Author keywords

Bayesian network; gesture semantics; hand tracking; video processing; Zernike moments

Indexed keywords

EID: 51449123793     PISSN: 17408865     EISSN: 17408873     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/ijista.2006.009913     Document Type: Article

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