A shared parameter model for gesture and sub-gesture analysis

  • Authors:
  • Manavender R. Malgireddy;Ifeoma Nwogu;Subarna Ghosh;Venu Govindaraju

  • Affiliations:
  • Computer Science and Engineering, NY;Computer Science and Engineering, NY;Computer Science and Engineering, NY;Computer Science and Engineering, NY

  • Venue:
  • IWCIA'11 Proceedings of the 14th international conference on Combinatorial image analysis
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

Gesture sequences typically have a common set of distinct internal sub-structures which can be shared across the gestures. In this paper, we propose a method using a generative model to learn these common actions which we refer to as sub-gestures, and in-turn perform recognition. Our proposed model learns sub-gestures by sharing parameters between gesture models. We evaluated our method on the Palm Graffiti digits-gesture dataset and showed that the model with shared parameters outperformed the same model without the shared parameters. Also, we labeled different observation sequences thereby intuitively showing how sub-gestures are related to complete gestures.