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Representation of Human Postures for Vision-Based Gesture Recognition in Real-Time

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Gesture-Based Human-Computer Interaction and Simulation (GW 2007)

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Using computer vision to sense and perceive the user and his/her actions in a Human-Computer Interaction context is often referred to as Vision-Based Interfaces. In this paper, we present a Vision-Based Interface guided by the user gestures. Previously to recognition, the user’s movements are obtained through a real-time vision-based motion capture system. This motion capture system is capable to estimate the user 3D body joints position in real-time. By means of an appropriate representation of limbs orientations based on temporal histograms, we present a scheme of gesture recognition that also works in real-time. This scheme of recognition has been tested through control of a classical computer videogame showing an excellent performance in on-line classification and it allows the possibility to achieve a learning phase in real-time due to its computational simplicity.

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  1. Unitat de Gràfics i Visió per Ordinador Departament de Ciències Matemàtiques i Informàtica, Universitat de les Illes Balears, Spain

    Antoni Jaume-i-Capó, Javier Varona & Francisco J. Perales

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  1. Microsoft and ISCTE, Microsoft Language Development Center, C1 and C2, Av. Doutor Aníbal Cavaco Silva, Tagus Park, 2744-010, Porto Salvo, Portugal

    Miguel Sales Dias

  2. Laboratoire Valoria, Centre de Recherche Yves Coppens, Université de Bretagne-Sud, Campus de Tohannic, 56000, Vannes, France

    Sylvie Gibet

  3. Schulich School of Music, Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Music Media and Technology (CIRMMT), McGill University, 555, Sherbrooke Street West, H3A 1E3, Montreal, QC, Canada

    Marcelo M. Wanderley

  4. ADETTI/ISCTE, Av. das Forças Armadas, 1600-082, Lisboa, Portugal

    Rafael Bastos

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Jaume-i-Capó, A., Varona, J., Perales, F.J. (2009). Representation of Human Postures for Vision-Based Gesture Recognition in Real-Time. In: Sales Dias, M., Gibet, S., Wanderley, M.M., Bastos, R. (eds) Gesture-Based Human-Computer Interaction and Simulation. GW 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 5085. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-92865-2_10

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