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Early gesture recognition consists of recognizing gestures at their beginning, using incomplete information. Among other applications, these methods can be used to compensate for the delay of gesture-based interactive systems. We propose a new approach for early recognition of full-body gestures based on dynamic time warping (DTW) that uses a single example from each category. Our method is based on the comparison between time sequences obtained from known and unknown gestures. The classifier provides a response before the unknown gesture finishes. We performed experiments in the MSR-Actions3D benchmark and another data set we built. Results show that, in average, the classifier is capable of recognizing gestures with 60% of the information, losing only 7.29% of accuracy with respect to using all of the information.
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Sabinas, Y., Morales, E.F., Escalante, H.J. (2013). A One-Shot DTW-Based Method for Early Gesture Recognition. In: Ruiz-Shulcloper, J., Sanniti di Baja, G. (eds) Progress in Pattern Recognition, Image Analysis, Computer Vision, and Applications. CIARP 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8259. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-41827-3_55
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