Hand gesture recognition based on free-form contours and probabilistic inference

International Journal of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 437-448

  Kasprzak, Włodzimierz ^a   Wilkowski, Artur ^a   Czapnik, Karol ^a  

^a WARSAW UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

active contours; hand pose detection; hand tracking; image sequence analysis; stochastic inference

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE CONTOURS; HAND POSE; HAND TRACKING; IMAGE SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STOCHASTIC INFERENCE;

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; COMPUTER VISION; VITERBI ALGORITHM;

GESTURE RECOGNITION;

EID: 84863321381     PISSN: 1641876X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2478/v10006-012-0033-6     Document Type: Article

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