Conga: A framework for adaptive conducting gesture analysis

Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 260-265

  Lee, Eric ^a   Grüll, Ingo ^a   Kiel, Henning ^a   Borchers, Jan ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Conducting; Gesture recognition; Software gesture frameworks

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; DIRECTED GRAPHS; FEATURE EXTRACTION;

ANALYSIS SYSTEM; AUTOMATIC RECOGNITION; CONDUCTING; FEATURE DETECTOR; GESTURE ANALYSIS; GESTURES RECOGNITION; LEVEL OF DIFFICULTIES; PUBLIC SPACE; SOFTWARE FRAMEWORKS; SOFTWARE GESTURE FRAMEWORK;

GESTURE RECOGNITION;

EID: 84885849349     PISSN: 22204792     EISSN: 22204806     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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