Toward natural interaction through visual recognition of body gestures in real-time

Interacting with Computers

Volumn 21, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 3-10

  Varona, Javier ^a   Jaume i Capó, Antoni ^a   Gonzàlez, Jordi ^b   Perales, Francisco J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT DE LES ILLES BALEARS   (Spain)

^b INSTITUT DE ROBÒTICA I INFORMÀTICA INDUSTRIAL CSIC UPC   (Spain)

Author keywords

Enactive interfaces; Human computer interaction; Vision based interfaces

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER VISION; GESTURE RECOGNITION; INVERSE KINEMATICS;

COMPUTER VISION TECHNIQUES; ENACTIVE INTERFACES; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERFACES; INVERSE KINEMATICS ALGORITHMS; NATURAL INTERACTIONS; NON-PARAMETRIC TECHNIQUES; TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCES; VISION BASED INTERFACE;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

EID: 59649089502     PISSN: 09535438     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.intcom.2008.10.001     Document Type: Article

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