Recognition of hand movements using wearable accelerometers

Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 143-155

  Krishnan, Narayanan C ^a   Juillard, Colin ^a   Colbry, Dirk ^a   Panchanathan, Sethuraman ^a  

^a Arizona State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Accelerometers; Adaboost; Classification; Hand movements

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION DATA; ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIFE; ACTIVITY RECOGNITION; ADABOOST; CLASSIFICATION; FEATURE VECTORS; HAND MOVEMENT; SHORT DURATIONS; SPECIFIC INSTRUCTION; SPECTRAL ENERGY; SPECTRAL ENTROPY; SUBJECT-SPECIFIC; TRIAXIAL ACCELEROMETER;

ACCELEROMETERS;

ADAPTIVE BOOSTING;

EID: 78651574474     PISSN: 18761364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3233/AIS-2009-0019     Document Type: Article

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