Communicating an auditory experience with words is a difficult task and, in consequence, people often rely on imitative non-verbal vocalizations and gestures. This work explored the combination of such vocalizations and gestures to communicate auditory sensations and representations elicited by non-vocal everyday sounds. Whereas our previous studies have analyzed vocal imitations, the present r...

Intelligent recognition of traffic police command gestures increases authenticity and interactivity in virtual urban scenes. To actualize real-time traffic gesture recognition, a novel spatiotemporal convolution neural network (ST-CNN) model is presented. We utilized Kinect 2.0 to construct a traffic police command gesture skeleton (TPCGS) dataset collected from 10 volunteers. Subsequently, con...

More and More researchers concerned about designing a health supporting system for elders that is light weight, no disturbing to user, and low computing complexity. In the paper, we introduced a micro wearable device based on a tri-axis accelerometer, which can detect acceleration change of human body based on the position of the device being set. Considering the flexibility of human finger, we...

More and More researchers concerned about designing a health supporting system for elders that is light weight, no disturbing to user, and low computing complexity. In the paper, we introduced a micro wearable device based on a tri-axis accelerometer, which can detect acceleration change of human body based on the position of the device being set. Considering the flexibility of human finger, we...

Douglas Yacek’s recent book The Transformative Classroom proposes a useful aspirational model of transformative education. In this critical commentary, I review and suggest that while it succeeds in overcoming some ethical shortcomings other dominant models education, would like to focusing on more subtle gestures could have the benefit being less dependent teacher’s intention transform constra...

What if one thinks not in terms of shared meanings or contents, but rather iterablegesturesavailable for re-enactment different times and places order to conceive a cross-cultural world literature? This essay sets out explore, within the discursive mode lyric, whether notion gesture could be more helpful than meaning-based translation account transferability literary texts envi...

With the development of new trends in human-machine interfaces, animated feature films and video games, better avatars and virtual agents are required that more accurately mimic how humans communicate and interact. Gestures and speech are jointly used to express intended messages. The tone and energy of the speech, facial expression, rigid head motion and hand motion combine in a non-trivial ma...

In this work a framework based on histogram of orientation optical flow (HOOF) and local binary pattern from three orthogonal planes (LBP_TOP) is proposed for recognizing dynamic hand gestures. HOOF algorithm extracts shape motion information gestures image sequences descriptor LBP extended to create an efficient descriptor. These features are invariant scale, translation, illumination directio...

Automatic recognition of finger gestures can be used for promotion of life quality. For example, a senior citizen can control the home appliance, call for help in emergency, or even communicate with others through simple finger gestures. Here, we focus on one-stroke finger gesture, which are intuitive to be remembered and performed. In this paper, we proposed and evaluated an accelerometer-base...