Monday, April 28, 2008

Invariant features for 3-D gesture recognition

Summary:

Campbell et al. use HMMs and a list of features to find a good recognition rate for a set of T'ai Chi gestures that are performed by users in a swivel chair; a hand gesture's change in polar coordinates provided the highest recognition for the 18 gestures tested.


Discussion:

Performing T'ai Chi in a chair kind of defeats the purpose of T'ai Chi. That's like trying to study race car drivers by observing people who take the bus.

1 comment:

- D said...

That, and all they do is shotgun a bunch of feature vectors at a hidden Markov model. It's pretty stupid, even without the chair.