Gesture-Based Human-Computer Interaction and Simulation

1. Front Matter

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2. Analysis and Synthesis of Gesture

   1. Gesture Recognition Based on Elastic Deformation Energies

      • Radu-Daniel Vatavu, Laurent Grisoni, Stefan-Gheorghe Pentiuc

      Pages 1-12

   2. Approximation of Curvature and Velocity for Gesture Segmentation and Synthesis

      • Sylvie Gibet, Pierre-François Marteau

      Pages 13-23

   3. Motion Primitives and Probabilistic Edit Distance for Action Recognition

      • Preben Fihl, Michael B. Holte, Thomas B. Moeslund

      Pages 24-35

3. Theoretical Aspects of Gestural Communication and Interaction

   1. On the Parametrization of Clapping

      • Herwin van Welbergen, Zsófia Ruttkay

      Pages 36-47

   2. Improving the Believability of Virtual Characters Using Qualitative Gesture Analysis

      • Barbara Mazzarino, Manuel Peinado, Ronan Boulic, Gualtiero Volpe, Marcelo M. Wanderley

      Pages 48-56

   3. A Method for Selection of Optimal Hand Gesture Vocabularies

      • Helman Stern, Juan Wachs, Yael Edan

      Pages 57-68

4. Vision-Based Gesture Recognition

   1. Person-Independent 3D Sign Language Recognition

      • Jeroen F. Lichtenauer, Gineke A. ten Holt, Marcel J. T. Reinders, Emile A. Hendriks

      Pages 69-80

   2. Skin Color Profile Capture for Scale and Rotation Invariant Hand Gesture Recognition

      • Rafael Bastos, Miguel Sales Dias

      Pages 81-92

   3. Robust Tracking for Processing of Videos of Communication’s Gestures

      • Frédérick Gianni, Christophe Collet, Patrice Dalle

      Pages 93-101

   4. Representation of Human Postures for Vision-Based Gesture Recognition in Real-Time

      • Antoni Jaume-i-Capó, Javier Varona, Francisco J. Perales

      Pages 102-107

   5. Enhancing a Sign Language Translation System with Vision-Based Features

      • Philippe Dreuw, Daniel Stein, Hermann Ney

      Pages 108-113

5. Sign Language Processing

   1. Generating Data for Signer Adaptation

      • Chunli Wang, Xilin Chen, Wen Gao

      Pages 114-121

   2. A Qualitative and Quantitative Characterisation of Style in Sign Language Gestures

      • Alexis Heloir, Sylvie Gibet

      Pages 122-133

   3. Sequential Belief-Based Fusion of Manual and Non-manual Information for Recognizing Isolated Signs

      • Oya Aran, Thomas Burger, Alice Caplier, Lale Akarun

      Pages 134-144

   4. Gesture Modelling for Linguistic Purposes

      • Guillaume J. -L. Olivrin

      Pages 145-150

6. Gesturing with Tangible Interfaces and in Virtual and Augmented Reality

   1. Automatic Classification of Expressive Hand Gestures on Tangible Acoustic Interfaces According to Laban’s Theory of Effort

      • Antonio Camurri, Corrado Canepa, Simone Ghisio, Gualtiero Volpe

      Pages 151-162

   2. Implementing Distinctive Behavior for Conversational Agents

      • Maurizio Mancini, Catherine Pelachaud

      Pages 163-174

   3. Using Hand Gesture and Speech in a Multimodal Augmented Reality Environment

      • Miguel Sales Dias, Rafael Bastos, João Fernandes, João Tavares, Pedro Santos

      Pages 175-180

   4. A Virtual Reality-Based Framework for Experiments on Perception of Manual Gestures

      • Sebastian Ullrich, Jakob T. Valvoda, Marc Wolter, Gisela Fehrmann, Isa Werth, Ludwig Jaeger et al.

      Pages 181-186

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.

• HCI
• Usability
• body tracking
• computational intelligence
• conversational agents
• gestural imagery
• gestural interaction
• gesture analysis
• gesture mediated HCI
• human-computer interaction
• human-computer interaction (HCI)
• motion tracking
• multimodal interaction
• multimodal user interfaces
• sign la

• Microsoft and ISCTE, Microsoft Language Development Center, C1 and C2, Porto Salvo, Portugal

  Miguel Sales Dias

• Laboratoire Valoria, Centre de Recherche Yves Coppens, Université de Bretagne-Sud, Vannes, France

  Sylvie Gibet

• Schulich School of Music, Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Music Media and Technology (CIRMMT), McGill University, Montreal, Canada

  Marcelo M. Wanderley

• ADETTI/ISCTE, Lisboa, Portugal

  Rafael Bastos

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