On an algorithm for Vision-based hand gesture recognition

Signal, Image and Video Processing

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 655-662

  Ghosh, Dipak Kumar ^a   Ari, Samit ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

American sign language (ASL) hand alphabet; Combined feature; Genetic algorithm (GA); Hand gesture recognition; Least mean square (LMS) algorithm; Radial basis function (RBF) neural network

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; FUNCTIONS; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; PALMPRINT RECOGNITION; RADIAL BASIS FUNCTION NETWORKS;

AMERICAN SIGN LANGUAGE; COMBINED FEATURES; HAND-GESTURE RECOGNITION; LEAST MEAN SQUARE ALGORITHMS; RADIAL BASIS FUNCTION NEURAL NETWORKS;

GESTURE RECOGNITION;

EID: 84933545354     PISSN: 18631703     EISSN: 18631711     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11760-015-0790-4     Document Type: Article

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