Gesture-Based Human-Computer Interaction and Simulation: 7th International Gesture Workshop, GW 2007, Lisbon, Portugal, May 23-25, 2007, Revised Selected Papers

✍ Scribed by Radu-Daniel Vatavu, Laurent Grisoni, Stefan-Gheorghe Pentiuc (auth.), Miguel Sales Dias, Sylvie Gibet, Marcelo M. Wanderley, Rafael Bastos (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 294
• Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science 5085 : Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Gesture-Based Human-Computer Interaction and Simulation, GW 2007, held in Lisbon, Portugal, in May 2007.

The 31 revised papers presented were carefully selected from 53 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on analysis and synthesis of gesture; theoretical aspects of gestural communication and interaction; vision-based gesture recognition; sign language processing; gesturing with tangible interfaces and in virtual and augmented reality; gesture for music and performing arts; gesture for therapy and rehabilitation; and gesture in Mobile computing and usability studies.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages -
Gesture Recognition Based on Elastic Deformation Energies....Pages 1-12
Approximation of Curvature and Velocity for Gesture Segmentation and Synthesis....Pages 13-23
Motion Primitives and Probabilistic Edit Distance for Action Recognition....Pages 24-35
On the Parametrization of Clapping....Pages 36-47
Improving the Believability of Virtual Characters Using Qualitative Gesture Analysis....Pages 48-56
A Method for Selection of Optimal Hand Gesture Vocabularies....Pages 57-68
Person-Independent 3D Sign Language Recognition....Pages 69-80
Skin Color Profile Capture for Scale and Rotation Invariant Hand Gesture Recognition....Pages 81-92
Robust Tracking for Processing of Videos of Communication’s Gestures....Pages 93-101
Representation of Human Postures for Vision-Based Gesture Recognition in Real-Time....Pages 102-107
Enhancing a Sign Language Translation System with Vision-Based Features....Pages 108-113
Generating Data for Signer Adaptation....Pages 114-121
A Qualitative and Quantitative Characterisation of Style in Sign Language Gestures....Pages 122-133
Sequential Belief-Based Fusion of Manual and Non-manual Information for Recognizing Isolated Signs....Pages 134-144
Gesture Modelling for Linguistic Purposes....Pages 145-150
Automatic Classification of Expressive Hand Gestures on Tangible Acoustic Interfaces According to Laban’s Theory of Effort....Pages 151-162
Implementing Distinctive Behavior for Conversational Agents....Pages 163-174
Using Hand Gesture and Speech in a Multimodal Augmented Reality Environment....Pages 175-180
A Virtual Reality-Based Framework for Experiments on Perception of Manual Gestures....Pages 181-186
Processing Iconic Gestures in a Multimodal Virtual Construction Environment....Pages 187-192
Analysis of Emotional Gestures for the Generation of Expressive Copying Behaviour in an Embodied Agent....Pages 193-198
Gestures to Intuitively Control Large Displays....Pages 199-204
Geometry and Effort in Gestural Renderings of Musical Sound....Pages 205-215
String Bowing Gestures at Varying Bow Stroke Frequencies: A Case Study....Pages 216-226
Gesture Control of Sound Spatialization for Live Musical Performance....Pages 227-238
Validation of an Algorithm for Segmentation of Full-Body Movement Sequences by Perception: A Pilot Experiment....Pages 239-244
Signs Workshop: The Importance of Natural Gestures in the Promotion of Early Communication Skills of Children with Developmental Disabilities....Pages 245-254
The Ergonomic Analysis of the Workplace of Physically Disabled Individuals....Pages 255-260
Mnemonical Body Shortcuts for Interacting with Mobile Devices....Pages 261-271
The Effects of the Gesture Viewpoint on the Students’ Memory of Words and Stories....Pages 272-281
Back Matter....Pages -

✦ Subjects

User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Computer Imaging, Vision, Pattern Recognition and Graphics; Pattern Recognition; Image Processing and Computer Vision