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Automated visual hand-gesture understanding could serve as a very practical tool in cases such as interfacing with intelligent machines (e.g. robots) ([1], [2]) or serving social purposes in the case of sign-language understanding [3].
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Viblis, M.K., Kyriakopoulos, K.J. (1999). Gesture Recognition : The Gesture Segmentation Problem. In: Tzafestas, S.G. (eds) Advances in Intelligent Systems. International Series on Microprocessor-Based and Intelligent Systems Engineering, vol 21. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-4840-5_33
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