Auto Clustering for Unsupervised Learning of Atomic Gesture Components Using Minimum Description Length

  • Authors:
  • Michael Walter;Alexandra Psarrou;Shaogang Gong

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • RATFG-RTS '01 Proceedings of the IEEE ICCV Workshop on Recognition, Analysis, and Tracking of Faces and Gestures in Real-Time Systems (RATFG-RTS'01)
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

Abstract: We present an approach to automatically segment and label a continuous observation sequence of hand gestures for a complete unsupervised model acquisition. The method is based on the assumption that gestures can be viewed as repetitive sequences of atomic components, similar to phonemes in speech, governed by a high level structure controlling the temporal sequence. We show that the generating process for the atomic components can be described in gesture space by a mixture of Gaussian, with each mixture component tied to one atomic behaviour. Mixture components are determined using a standard EM approach while the determination of the number of components is based on an information criteria, the Minimum Description Length.