Gesture Recognition
Kelly S. Hale, Kay M. Stanney · 2014
A primary goal of virtual environments (VEs) is to provide natural, efcient, powerful, and ªexible interaction for users while navigating, exploring, and communicating. Providing gestural capabilities as an input modality, particularly in the context of multimodal interaction (Jaimes & Sebe, 2005), can help meet these requirements. Human gestures are natural and ªexible and may often be efcient and powerful, especially as compared with alternative interaction modes. This chapter will cover automatic gesture recognition, focusing particularly on computer vision-based techniques that do not require the user to wear extra sensors, clothing, or equipment.