The use of hand gestures provides an attractive alternative to cumbersome interface devices
for human-computer interaction (HCI). In particular, visual interpretation of hand gestures …

Affective computing is currently one of the most active research topics, furthermore, having
increasingly intensive attention. This strong interest is driven by a wide spectrum of …

W/sup 4/is a real time visual surveillance system for detecting and tracking multiple people
and monitoring their activities in an outdoor environment. It operates on monocular gray …

How do we decide how to represent an intelligent system in its interface, and how do we
decide how the interface represents information about the world and about its own workings …

A comprehensive survey of computer vision-based human motion capture literature from the
past two decades is presented. The focus is on a general overview based on a taxonomy of …

In this paper, we argue for embodied corrversational characters as the logical extension of
the metaphor of human-computer interaction as a conversation. We argue that the only way …

Machine Learning: Discriminative and Generative covers the main contemporary themes
and tools in machine learning ranging from Bayesian probabilistic models to discriminative …

W/sup 4/is a real time visual surveillance system for detecting and tracking people and
monitoring their activities in an outdoor environment. It operates on monocular grayscale …

Embodied conversational agents are specifically conversational in their behaviors, and
specifically humanlike in the way they use their bodies in conversation. That is, embodied …

Gait is a biometric which is subject to increasing interest. Current approaches include
modelling gait as a spatio-temporal sequence and as an articulated model. By considering …