Multimodal gesture recognition
Athanasios Katsamanis, Vassilis Pitsikalis, Stavros Theodorakis, Petros A. Maragos · ACM eBooks · 2017
Starting from the famous "Put That There!" demonstration prototype, developed by the Architecture Machine Group at MIT in the late 1970s, the growing potential of multimodal gesture interfaces in natural human-machine communication setups has stimulated people's imagination and motivated significant research efforts in the fields of computer vision, speech recognition, multimodal sensing, fusion, and human-computer interaction (HCI). In the words of Bolt [1980, p. 1]: "Because voice can be augmented with simultaneous pointing, the free usage of pronouns becomes possible, with a corresponding gain in naturalness and economy of expression. Conversely, gesture aided by voice gains precision in its power to reference."