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Gesture recognition of the upper limbs — From signal to symbol

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Gesture and Sign Language in Human-Computer Interaction (GW 1997)

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To recognise gestures performed by people without disabilities during verbal communication —so-called coverbal gestures —a flexible system with task-oriented design is proposed. The issue of flexibility is addressed via different kinds of modules —grasped as agents —, which are grouped in different levels. They can be easily reconfigured or rewritten to suit another application. This system of layered agents uses an abstract body-model to transform the up-taken data from the sixdegree-of-freedom-sensors, and the data gloves, to a first-level symbolic description of gesture features. In a first integration step the first-level symbols are integrated to second-level symbols describing a whole gesture. Second-level symbolic gesture descriptions are the entities which can be integrated with speech tokens to form multi-modal utterances.

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  1. Technische Fakultät, Universität Bielefeld, Postfach 100 131, D-33501, Bielefeld, Germany

    Martin Fröhlich & Ipke Wachsmuth

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Fröhlich, M., Wachsmuth, I. (1998). Gesture recognition of the upper limbs — From signal to symbol. In: Wachsmuth, I., Fröhlich, M. (eds) Gesture and Sign Language in Human-Computer Interaction. GW 1997. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1371. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0052998

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