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Robotic gesture recognition

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Gesture and Sign Language in Human-Computer Interaction (GW 1997)

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Robots of the future should communicate with humans in a natural way. We are especially interested in vision-based gesture interfaces. In the context of robotics several constraints exist, which make the task of gesture recognition particularly challenging. We discuss these constraints and report on progress being made in our lab in the development of techniques for building robust gesture interfaces which can handle these constraints. In an example application, the techniques are shown to be easily combined to build a gesture interface for a real robot grasping objects on a table in front of it.

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  1. Institut für Neuroinformatik, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, D-44780, Bochum, Germany

    Jochen Triesch & Christoph von der Malsburg

  2. Dept. of Computer Science and Section for Neurobiology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA

    Christoph von der Malsburg

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  1. Jochen Triesch
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Triesch, J., von der Malsburg, C. (1998). Robotic gesture recognition. In: Wachsmuth, I., Fröhlich, M. (eds) Gesture and Sign Language in Human-Computer Interaction. GW 1997. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1371. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0053003

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