This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Gesture and Sign Languages Based Human-Computer Interaction, GW 2003, held in Genova, Italy in April 2003.
The 51 revised papers presented were carefully selected from numerous submissions during two rounds of reviewing and improvement. The papers are organized in topical sections on foundational issues, gesture tracking, gesture recognition, gesture notation and synthesis, multimodal gestural interfaces, and gestures in multimedia and performing arts.
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Foundational Issues
Gesture Analysis: Invariant Laws in Movement
The Features People Use to Recognize Human Movement Style
Multimodal Analysis of Expressive Gesture in Music and Dance Performances
Correlation of Gestural Musical Audio Cues and Perceived Expressive Qualities
Gestural Imagery in the Service of Musical Imagery
The Interaction of Iconic Gesture and Speech in Talk
Conceptual and Lexical Factors in the Production of Speech and Conversational Gestures: Neuropsychological Evidence
The Communicative System of Touch. Alphabet, Lexicon,and Norms of Use
Some Issues in Sign Language Processing
Multimodality and Gestures in the Teacher's Communication
Deixis in Multimodal Human Computer Interaction:An Interdisciplinary Approach
The Analysis of Gesture: Establishing a Set of Parameters
Gesture Tracking
Holistic Body Tracking for Gestural Interfaces
Recovering Articulated Motion with a Hierarchical Factorization Method
An Experimental Comparison of Trajectory-Based and History-Based Representation for Gesture Recognition
Tracking of Real Time Acrobatic Movements by Image Processing
A Dynamic Model for Real-Time Tracking of Hands in Bimanual Movements
Gesture Recognition
Robust Video-Based Recognition of Dynamic Head Gestures in Various Domains - Comparing a Rule-Based and a Stochastic Approach
Remote Vision-Based Multi-type Gesture Interaction
Model-Based Motion Filtering for Improving Arm Gesture Recognition Performance
GesRec3D: A Real-Time Coded Gesture-to-Speech System with Automatic Segmentation and Recognition Thresholding Using Dissimilarity Measures
Classification of Gesture with Layered Meanings
Handshapes and Movements:Multiple-Channel American Sign Language Recognition
Hand Postures Recognition in Large-Display VR Environments
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Gesture Notation and Synthesis
Multimodal Gestural Interfaces
Gesture in Multimedia amd Performing Arts
Author Index