Tracking, Analysis and Recognition of Human Gestures
Speaker: Stan Sclaroff , BU
Date: April 20 2005
Time: 2:45PM to 3:45PM
Location: Kiva
Host: Greg Shakhnarovich, CSAIL
Contact: Greg Shakhnarovich, xx3-8170, gregory@csail
Relevant URL: ABSTRACT
I will give an overview of our research effort to develop computer vision
systems for automatic recognition of gestural communication. Examples will
be given in two domains: American Sign Language (a very rich, and
challenging domain), and hand signals (easier) like those employed by
referees at sporting events, flight-directors on airport runways, etc. I
will describe a variety of approaches for localizing and tracking human
hands, estimating hand pose and upper body pose, as well as methods for
efficiently spotting, comparing, and recognizing specific upper-body and
hand gestures of interest in video streams.
This is collaborative research with Profs. Margrit Betke and George Kollios
(BU Computer Science), Prof. Vladimir Pavlovic (Rutgers), Prof. Carol Neidle
(ASL linguist, BU Modern Foreign Languages and Literatures), and BU graduate
students Joni Alon, Vassilis Athitsos, Rui Li, Ashwin Thangali, Tai-peng
Tian, and Quan Yuan.
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