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Recognition of Simple Head Gestures Based on Head Pose Estimation Analysis

Authors:
George Galanakis
Pavlos Katsifarakis
Xenophon Zabulis
Ilia Adami

Keywords: head gesture recognition; head gesture detection

Abstract:
A recognition method for simple gestures is proposed and evaluated. Such gestures are of interest as they are the primitive elements of more complex gestures utilized in natural communication and human computer interaction. The input to the recognition method is obtained from a head tracker that is based on images acquired from a depth camera. Candidate gestures are detected within continuous head motion and recognized, acknowledging that head pose estimates might be inaccurate. The proposed method is evaluated within the context of human-computer dialog.The reported results show that the proposed approach yields competitive recognition results to state-of-the-art approaches.

Pages: 88 to 96

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2014

Publication date: August 24, 2014

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2326-9324

ISBN: 978-1-61208-356-8

Location: Rome, Italy

Dates: from August 24, 2014 to August 28, 2014