A novel system for automatic hand gesture spotting and recognition in stereo color image sequences

Journal of WSCG

Volumn 17, Issue 1-3, 2009, Pages 89-96

  Elmezain, Mahmoud ^a   Al Hamadi, Ayoub ^a   Michaelis, Bernd ^a  

^a OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Application; Computer vision; Gesture recognition; Gesture spotting; Pattern recognition

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350267803     PISSN: 12136972     EISSN: 12136964     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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