Hand gesture recognition using a neural network shape fitting technique

Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence

Volumn 22, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1141-1158

  Stergiopoulou, E ^a   Papamarkos, N ^a  

^a DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Hand gesture; Human machine interaction; Neural network; Skin color detection; YCbCr color space

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION TECHNIQUE; COLOR SEGMENTATION; COLOR SPACE; FITTING PROCEDURE; HAND GESTURE; HAND-GESTURE RECOGNITION; HUMAN-MACHINE INTERACTION; MORPHOLOGIC CHARACTERISTICS; NEURAL GAS; SELF-ORGANIZED; SHAPE FITTING; SKIN COLOR DETECTION; SKIN-COLOR FILTERING; YCBCR COLOR SPACE;

COLOR; IMAGE ACQUISITION; MAN MACHINE SYSTEMS; NEURAL NETWORKS; SKIN;

GESTURE RECOGNITION;

EID: 70350569390     PISSN: 09521976     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.engappai.2009.03.008     Document Type: Article

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