Multi-Cue Exemplar-Based Nonparametric Model for Gesture Recognition

Abstract: This paper presents an approach for a multi-cue, viewbased recognition of gestures. We describe an exemplarbased technique that combines two different forms of exemplars - shape exemplars and motion exemplars - in a unified probabilistic framework. Each gesture is represented as a sequence of learned body poses as well as a sequence of learned motion parameters. The shape exemplars are comprised of pose contours, and the motion exemplars are represented as affine motion parameters extracted...