A survey on human motion analysis from depth data

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 8200 LNCS, Issue , 2013, Pages 149-187

  Ye, Mao ^a   Zhang, Qing ^a   Wang, Liang ^b   Zhu, Jiejie ^c   Yang, Ruigang ^a   Gall, Juergen ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^b MICROSOFT   (United States)

^c SRI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; GESTURE RECOGNITION; MOTION ESTIMATION; SENSORS;

ACTIVITY RECOGNITION; FACIAL FEATURE DETECTION; HAND POSE ESTIMATIONS; HAND-GESTURE RECOGNITION; HUMAN MOTION ANALYSIS; HUMAN POSE ESTIMATIONS; TIME-OF-FLIGHT CAMERAS; TRADITIONAL APPROACHES;

IMAGE RECOGNITION;

EID: 84893779167     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-44964-2_8     Document Type: Conference Paper

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