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Klappentext With recent advances in the field of computer vision! this book collects the ideas and algorithms from the world's leading scientists where they offer a glimpse of the radical changes in computers which will change the way users interact with each computers and each other. Zusammenfassung This 1998 book collects the ideas and algorithms from the world's leading scientists! offering a glimpse of the radical changes that could occur as a result of advances in computer vision. Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword; Preface; Part I. New Interfaces and Applications: 1. Smart rooms: machine understanding of human behavior A. Pentland; 2. GestureComputer - history, design and applications C. Maggioni, and B. Kämmerer; 3. Human reader: a vision-based man-machine interface K. Mase; 4. Visual sensing of humans for active public interfaces K. Waters, J. Rehg, M. Loghlin, S. B. King, and D. Terzopoulos; 5. Pointing with uncalibrated stereo vision R. Cipolla, and N. J. Hollinghurst; Part II. Tracking Human Action: 6. Tracking faces A. Gee, and R. Cipolla; 7. Towards automated, real-time, facial animation B. Bascle, A. Blake, and J. Morris; 8. Interfacing through visual pointers C. Colombo, A. Del Bimbo, and S. De Magistris; 9. Monocular tracking of the human arm in 3D E. Di Bernado, L. Goncalves, and P. Perona; 10. Looking at people in action - an overview Y. Yacoob, L. Davis, M. Black, D. Gavrila, T. Horprasert, and C. Morimoto; Part III. Gesture Recognition and Interpretation: 11. A framework for gesture generation and interpretation J. Cassell; 12. Model-based interpreation of faces and hand gestures C. J. Taylor, A. Lanitis, T. F. Cootes, G. Edwards, and T. Ahmad; 13. Recognition of handsigns from complex backgrounds J. J. Weng, and Y. Cui; 14. Probabilistic models of verbal and body gestures C. Bregler, S. Omohundro, M. Covell, M. Slaney, S. Ahmad, D. Forsyth, and J. Feldman; 15. Looking at human gestures M. Yachida, Y. Iwai; Ackowledgements; Bibliography; List of contributors....