Human motion tracking and recognition using HMM by a mobile robot

International Journal of Intelligent Unmanned Systems

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 76-92

  Nergui, Myagmarbayar ^a   Yoshida, Yuki ^a   Imamoglu, Nevrez ^a   Gonzalez, Jose ^a   Sekine, Masashi ^a   Yu, Wenwei ^a  

^a CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Behaviour recognition; Health care; HMM; Kinect sensor; Mobile robots; Motion measurement; motion tracking; Robotics; Robots

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886630975     PISSN: 20496427     EISSN: 20496435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/20496421311298152     Document Type: Article

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