A Dempster-Shafer theory based combination of classifiers for hand gesture recognition

Communications in Computer and Information Science

Volumn 21 CCIS, Issue , 2008, Pages 137-150

  Burger, Thomas ^a,c   Aran, Oya ^b   Urankar, Alexandra ^c   Caplier, Alice ^a   Akarun, Lale ^b  

^a GIPSA LAB   (France)

^b BOGAZICI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c ORANGE LABS   (France)

Author keywords

Belief functions; Cued Speech; Expert systems; Hand shape and gesture recognition; HMM; Hu invariants; probabilistic transform; SVM

Indexed keywords

BELIEF FUNCTION; CUED SPEECH; HAND SHAPE; HMM; HU INVARIANTS; PROBABILISTIC TRANSFORM; SVM;

CLASSIFIERS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER VISION; EXPERT SYSTEMS; FORMAL LOGIC; GESTURE RECOGNITION; INFORMATION THEORY; PROBLEM SOLVING; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

SPEECH RECOGNITION; GESTURE RECOGNITION;

EID: 78249251185     PISSN: 18650929     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-89682-1_10     Document Type: Conference Paper

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