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JAIR
2008
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Gesture Salience as a Hidden Variable for Coreference Resolution and Keyframe Extraction
Gesture is a non-verbal modality that can contribute crucial information to the understanding of natural language. But not all gestures are informative, and non-communicative hand...
Jacob Eisenstein, Regina Barzilay, Randall Davis
IJCV
2006
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Hand Motion Gesture Frequency Properties and Multimodal Discourse Analysis
Gesture and speech are co-expressive and complementary channels of a single human language system. While speech carries the major load of symbolic presentation, gesture provides th...
Yingen Xiong, Francis K. H. Quek
IJISTA
2008
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Gesture recognition with a Time-Of-Flight camera
Abstract: This paper presents a new approach for gesture classification using x- and y-projections of the image and optional depth features. The system uses a 3-D time-of-flight (T...
Eva N. K. Kollorz, Jochen Penne, Joachim Hornegger...
IJISTA
2008
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View invariant gesture recognition using the CSEM SwissRanger SR-2 camera
: This paper introduces use of range information acquired by a CSEM SwissRanger SR-2 camera for view invariant recognition of one and two arms gestures. The range data enables moti...
Michael B. Holte, Thomas B. Moeslund, Preben Fihl
CORR
2010
Springer
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Function and form of gestures in a collaborative design meeting
This paper examines the relationship between gestures' function and form in design collaboration. It adopts a cognitive design research viewpoint. The analysis is restricted t...
Willemien Visser
COGSCI
2010
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Gesturing Saves Cognitive Resources When Talking About Nonpresent Objects
In numerous experimental contexts, gesturing has been shown to lighten a speaker's cognitive load. However, in all of these experimental paradigms, the gestures have been dir...
Raedy Ping, Susan Goldin-Meadow
MM
2010
ACM
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iWalk: a tool for interacting with geo-located data through movement and gesture
In this work, we present iWalk, a multimedia exploration tool that provides an interactive virtual environment for physically exploring geo-tagged data. This tool is flexible enou...
Visruth Premraj, Margaret Schedel, Tamara L. Berg
AIIDE
2009
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Automatically Choosing Appropriate Gestures for Jokes
We examine the problem of automatically selecting gestures that are appropriate to use when telling a joke or a short story. Our current application of this is a joke telling huma...
Dai Hasegawa, Jonas Sjöbergh, Rafal Rzepka, K...
BMVC
1998
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Gesture Recognition for Visually Mediated Interaction using Probabilistic Event Trajectories
An approach to gesture recognition is presented in which gestures are modelled probabilistically as sequences of visual events. These events are matched to visual input using prob...
Stephen J. McKenna, Shaogang Gong
AAAI
1998
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Template-Based Recognition of Pose and Motion Gestures On a Mobile Robot
For mobile robots to assist people in everyday life, they must be easy to instruct. This paper describes a gesture-based interface for human robot interaction, which enables peopl...
Stefan Waldherr, Sebastian Thrun, Roseli Romero, D...