Real-time computation of disparity for hand-pair gesture recognition using a stereo webcam

Journal of Real-Time Image Processing

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 257-266

  Mahotra, Sidharth ^a   Patlolla, Chandrasekhar ^a   Kehtarnavaz, Nasser ^a  

^a The University of Texas at Dallas   (United States)

Author keywords

Hand segmentation; Real time hand pair gesture recognition; Region of interest depth map; Stereo webcam

Indexed keywords

IMAGE SEGMENTATION; PALMPRINT RECOGNITION; STEREO IMAGE PROCESSING;

DEPTH MAP; DISPARITY ESTIMATIONS; HIGH FRAME RATE; REAL TIME; REAL-TIME COMPUTATIONS; REGION OF INTEREST; STEREO WEBCAM; STEREO-IMAGE;

GESTURE RECOGNITION;

EID: 84869195247     PISSN: 18618200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11554-011-0207-8     Document Type: Article

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