Tangible User Interfaces (TUIs) are commonly accepted as those in which the configuration of physical objects embodies digital system state, providing “graspable” digital medi...
Recently, the bag-of-words approach has been successfully applied to automatic image annotation, object recognition, etc. The method needs to first quantize an image using the vis...
Among the visual features of multimedia content, shape is of particular interest because humans can often recognize objects solely on the basis of shape. Over the past three decad...
The development of mid-level concepts helps to bridge the gap between low-level feature and high-level semantics in video analysis. Most existing work combines the customized mid-...
Vision-based hand gesture interfaces require fast and extremely robust hand detection. Here, we study view-specific hand posture detection with an object recognition method recent...