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Just consider the undertaking of detecting gestures. The most rudimentary manner to approach it would involve some form of heuristics; for example, if the hand joint is higher than the head joint, the person has their hand raised. It is not difficult to see how this increases in complexity for even the simplest of gestures. A hand-waving gesture would require some way to track the periodicity of the wave to check whether the person is actually waving, just saying stop, or perhaps just has their hand raised idly. Given that each joint has three position properties, our conditional statements stand to be very long and undesirably nested. The situation worsens dramatically if we start considering velocity and acceleration.
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Rahman, M. (2017). Miscellaneous Tools. In: Beginning Microsoft Kinect for Windows SDK 2.0. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-2316-1_8
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