RadarSense: Accurate recognition of mid-air hand gestures with radar sensing and few training examples

A Sluÿters, S Lambot, J Vanderdonckt… - ACM Transactions on …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Microwave radars bring many benefits to mid-air gesture sensing due to their large field of
view and independence from environmental conditions, such as ambient light and …

Real time hand detection in a complex background

E Stergiopoulou, K Sgouropoulos, N Nikolaou… - … Applications of Artificial …, 2014 - Elsevier
Hand gesture recognition has gained the interest of many researchers in recent years, as it
has become one of the most popular Human Computer Interfaces. The first step in most …

Entrepreneurial activities in Europe-Entrepreneurship for people with disabilities

D Halabisky - 2014 - oecd-ilibrary.org
Disability impacts a large number of people–approximately 16% of the working age
population in the EU is afflicted with a long-standing health problem or disability (European …

Smart-Pockets: Body-deictic gestures for fast access to personal data during ambient interactions

RD Vatavu - International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstract This work introduces Smart-Pockets, a new set of whole-body gesture recognition
techniques that enables users to access their personal digital content efficiently for …

The effect of sampling rate on the performance of template-based gesture recognizers

RD Vatavu - Proceedings of the 13th international conference on …, 2011 - dl.acm.org
We investigate in this work the effect of motion sampling rate over recognition accuracy and
execution time for current template-based gesture recognizers in order to provide …

The impact of motion dimensionality and bit cardinality on the design of 3D gesture recognizers

RD Vatavu - International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 2013 - Elsevier
The interactive demands of the upcoming ubiquitous computing era have set off researchers
and practitioners toward prototyping new gesture-sensing devices and gadgets. At the same …

[PDF][PDF] Disabled entrepreneurship and self-employment: The role of technology and policy building

D Vaziri, D Schreiber, R Wieching, V Wulf - 2014 - oecd-ilibrary.org
Highlighting the disproportionate risk of poverty faced by disabled individuals in the EU, this
paper delves into the employment challenges they encounter. With employment rates for …

[PDF][PDF] Gesture-based object recognition using histograms of guiding strokes

A Sadeghipour, LP Morency, S Kopp - Proceedings of the British …, 2012 - core.ac.uk
Humans perform iconic gestures to refer to entities through embodying their shapes. For
instance, people often gesture the outline of an object (eg a circle for a ball) when referring …

Multiscale detection of gesture patterns in continuous motion trajectories

RD Vatavu, L Grisoni, SG Pentiuc - … 25-27, 2009, Revised Selected Papers …, 2010 - Springer
We describe a numerical method for scale invariant detection of gesture patterns in
continuous 2D motions. The algorithm is fast due to our rejection-based reasoning achieved …

Small gestures go a long way: how many bits per gesture do recognizers actually need?

RD Vatavu - Proceedings of the Designing Interactive Systems …, 2012 - dl.acm.org
We investigate in this work the effect of bit depth on the performance of today's commonly
used nearest-neighbor gesture recognizers. As current bit representations are typically an …