Gesture and Sign Language in Human-Computer Interaction International Gesture Workshop, Bielefeld, Germany, September 17-19, 1997, Proceedings /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Wachsmuth, Ipke (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Fröhlich, Martin (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 1998.
• Edition: 1st ed. 1998.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence ; 1371
• Subjects: Artificial intelligence.; User interfaces (Computer systems).; Pattern recognition.; Computer simulation.; Artificial Intelligence.; User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction.; Pattern Recognition.; Simulation and Modeling.

This book presents the thoroughly refereed post-workshop proceedings of an International Workshop on Gesture and Sign Language in Human-Computer Interaction held in Bielefeld, Germany, in 1997. The book presents 25 revised papers together with two invited lectures. Recently, gesture and sign languag...

Table of Contents:

• Research challenges in gesture: Open issues and unsolved problems
• Progress in sign language recognition
• Movement phases in signs and co-speech gestures, and their transcription by human coders
• Classifying two dimensional gestures in interactive systems
• Are listeners paying attention to the hand gestures of an anthropomorphic agent? an evaluation using a gaze tracking method
• Gesture-Based and haptic interaction for human skill acquisition
• High performance real-time gesture recognition using Hidden Markov Models
• Velocity profile based recognition of dynamic gestures with discrete Hidden Markov Models
• Video-based sign language recognition using Hidden Markov Models
• Corpus of 3D natural movements and sign language primitives of movement
• On the use of context and a priori knowledge in motion analysis for visual gesture recognition
• Automatic estimation of body regions from video images
• Rendering gestures as line drawings
• Investigating the role of redundancy in multimodal input systems
• Gesture recognition of the upper limbs - From signal to symbol
• Exploiting distant pointing gestures for object selection in a virtual environment
• An intuitive two-handed gestural interface for computer supported product design
• Detection of fingertips in human hand movement sequences
• Neural architecture for gesture-based human-machine-interaction
• Robotic gesture recognition
• Image based recognition of gaze direction using adaptive methods
• Towards a dialogue system based on recognition and synthesis of Japanese sign language
• The recognition algorithm with non-contact for Japanese sign language using morphological analysis
• Special topics of gesture recognition applied in intelligent home environments
• BUILD-IT: An intuitive design tool based on direct object manipulation.