ISBN: 3-540-66935-3
TITLE: Gesture-Based Communication in Human-Computer Interaction
AUTHOR: Braffort, Annelies; Gherbi, Rachid; Gibet, Sylvie; Richardson, James; Teil, Daniel (Eds.)
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Section 1: Human Perception and Production of Gesture
Invited Paper
Seeing Biological Motion - Is There a Role for Cognitive Strategies? 3
Winand H. Dittrich (University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, England)
Long Papers
The Expressive Power of Gestures: Capturing Scent in a Spatial Shape 23
Caroline Hummels and Kees Overbeeke
Non-obvious Performer Gestures in Instrumental Music 37
Marcelo M. Wanderley
Short Papers
The Ecological Approach to Multimodal System Design 49
Antonella De Angeli, Frdric Wolff, Laurent Romary and Walter Gerbino
Analysis of Trunk and Upper Limb Articular Synergies 53
Agnes Roby-Brami, Mounir Mokhtari, Isabelle Laffont, Nezha Bennis and Elena Biryukova
Section 2: Localisation and Segmentation
Long Papers
GREFIT: Visual Recognition of Hand Postures 61
Claudia Nlker and Helge Ritter
Towards Imitation Learning of Grasping Movements by an Autonomous Robot 73
Jochen Triesch, Jan Wieghardt, Eric Mal and Christoph von der Malsburg
A Line-Scan Computer Vision Algorithm for Identifying Human Body Features 85
Damian M. Lyons and Daniel L. Pelletier
Short Paper
Hand Posture Recognition in a Body-Face Centered Space 97
Sbastien Marcel and Olivier Bernier
Section 3: Recognition
Invited Paper
Vision-Based Gesture Recognition: A Review 103
Ying Wu and Thomas S. Huang (University of Illinois, Urbana, USA)
Long Papers
Person Localization and Posture Recognition for Human-Robot Interaction 117
Hans-Joachim Boehme, Ulf-Dietrich Braumann, Andrea Corradini and Horst-Michael Gross
Statistical Gesture Recognition Through Modelling of Parameter Trajectories 129
J. Martin, D. Hall and J.L. Crowley
Gesture Recognition for Visually Mediated Interaction 141
A. Jonathan Howell and Hilary Buxton
Short Papers
Interpretation of Pointing Gestures: The PoG System. 153
Rachid Gherbi and Annelies Braffort
Control of In-vehicle Systems by Gestures 159
Jean-Franois Kamp, Frank Poirier and Philippe Doignon
Section 4: Sign Language
Invited Paper
French Sign Language: Proposition of a Structural Explanation by Iconicity 165
Christian Cuxac (Paris 8 University, St-Denis, France)
Long Papers
HMM-Based Continuous Sign Language Recognition Using Stochastic Grammars 185
Hermann Hienz, Britta Bauer and Karl-Friedrich Kraiss
A Method for Analyzing Spatial Relationships Between Words in Sign Language Recognition 197
Hirohiko Sagawa and Masaru Takeuchi
Toward Scalability in ASL Recognition: Breaking Down Signs into Phonemes 211
Christian Vogler and Dimitris Metaxas
Section 5: Gesture Synthesis and Animation
Long Papers
A Complete System for the Specification and the Generation of Sign Language Gestures 227
Thierry Lebourque and Sylvie Gibet
Sign Specification and Synthesis 239
Olivier Losson and Jean-Marc Vannobel
Active Character: Dynamic Reaction to the User 253
Shan Lu and Seiji Igi
Short Papers
Reactiva'Motion Project: Motion Synthesis Based on a Reactive Representation 265
Frdric Julliard and Sylvie Gibet
The Emotional Avatar: Non-verbal Communication Between Inhabitants of Collaborative Virtual Environments 269
Marc Fabri, David J. Moore and Dave J. Hobbs
Section 6: Multimodality
Invited Paper
Communicative Rhythm in Gesture and Speech 277
Ipke Wachsmuth (Faculty of Technology, Bielefeld, Germany)
Long Papers
Temporal Symbolic Integration Applied to a Multimodal System
Using Gestures and Speech 291
Timo Sowa, Martin Frhlich and Marc Erich Latoschik
A Multimodal Interface Framework for Using Hand Gestures and Speech in Virtual Environment Applications 303
Joseph J. LaViola Jr.
Round Table
Stimulating Research into Gestural Human Machine Interaction 317
Marilyn Panayi, David Roy (Odense University, Odense, Denmark) James Richardson (University of Paris-Sud, Orsay, France)
Author Index 333
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