3D Gesture Recognition and Interaction

Joseph J. LaViola is Associate Professor, University of Central Florida, Dept of EE/CS. Research interests include pen-based computing, 3D user interfaces for games, human motion estimation, virtual reality, human-robot interaction and interactive computer graphics. He is also an adjunct associate professor (Research), Brown University Computer Science Department; Eugene M.Taranta is a Staff Engineer at Seagate Technology and a Senior Researcher at the Graphics Lab, University of Central Florida. Research interests include: Gesture recognition, computer graphics, and RAID performance and coding theory.

Introduction. Collecting 3D Gesture Data. Working with 3D Gesture Data. Recognizing 3D Gestures – Heuristics. Recognizer 3D Gestures – Machine Learning. Using Context in 3D Gesture Recognition. Evaluating 3D Gesture Recognizers and Interfaces. Defining 3D Gestural Interfaces. Conclusions and Further Thoughts.