APPLICATIONS AND REVIEWS‚ VOL. 37‚ NO. 3‚ MAY 2007 311 Gesture Recognition: A Survey Sushmita Mitra‚ Senior Member‚ IEEE‚ and Tinku Acharya‚ Senior Member‚ IEEE Abstract—Gesture recognition pertains to recognizing meaningful expressions of motion by a human‚ involving the hands‚ arms‚ face‚ head‚ and/or body. It is of utmost importance in designing an intelligent and efficient human–computer interface. The applications of gesture recognition are manifold‚ ranging from sign language through medical rehabilitation
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said Jackie Fenn‚ a Fellow in emerging trends and technologies for Gartner‚ a market research firm. GESTURE-RECOGNITION TECHNOLOGY In the early 1960s‚ users could move a light-emitting pen to control the Sketchpad computer-aided design system. Several subsequent commercial systems also worked with light-emitting pens. Research into camera-based computer vision for gesture recognition began in earnest in the early 1990s at places such as the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab‚ Japan’s
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The extent that virtual learning environments (VLEs) enhance traditional face to face teaching in higher education is in itself a very complex issue‚ since most of the universities across the world intend to upgrade their teaching facilities to be more state of the art. The Joint Information Systems Committee JISC (2007‚ citied in Maltby & Mackie 2009:49) defines a VLE as a set of components in which learners and tutors participate in ‘online’ interactions of various kinds‚ including online learning
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Are faces special? Critically evaluate the evidence that we have evolved a specialised neural network dedicated to processing faces. Brian Marron‚ 11461992‚ SF TSM. INTRODUCTION Processing faces is extremely important to humans as social beings. We are able to put and identity on thousands of faces (Gazzaniga‚ 2002) with ease‚ something we might take for granted. The value of this ability can be better understood when the world is viewed through the eyes of somebody with prosopagnosia‚ the inability
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Jeffrey McGurren Com. 103 March 4‚ 2004 Research Paper 1 "Face-to-Face Versus Online Education" Education is essential to the future of our society. Many adults‚ including scholars and teachers‚ are constantly searching for the best way to educate students today. Face-to-face education‚ being the genuine form‚ seems to be the first choice of many students. However‚ online education is becoming more popular and is being used more often at universities. Online courses are convenient for some who
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Densie Keaton Social Networking Advantages and Disadvantages HLT 610 Grand Canyon University Finding the advantages and disadvantages of social networking for career advancement was to say the least interesting. The employment advancement with Social media in education can teach students marketing skills early on in the process. When using sites like Facebook‚ twitter‚ and Instagram individuals are able to send information about themselves out to millions of people. If that same person
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Voice recognition software Patrick Maxfield CIS/207 July 24‚ 2013 Luciano Brito Voice recognition software Voice recognition software has come a long ways in a short time. It was first used in home appliances such as washing machines so the consumer could operate the washing controls through vocal commands and then the invention of mobile phones with voice-activated dialing came along. Know day’s voice recognition is so widely used that I could not begin to identify them all. The technology
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A Miller Prof. Gould ENG 262 12-3-11 Recognition and Reversal: Othello Aristotle classifies both recognitions and reversals as the greatest point of tragedy in a play or story. Recognitions and reversals are consistently used to develop character‚ advance the plot‚ and get a reaction of pity and fear from the audience. Recognition is the act of realization or knowledge or feeling that someone or something present has been encountered before. Reversals
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Face Detection Ming-Hsuan Yang University of California‚ Merced‚ CA 95344 mhyang@ucmerced.edu Synonyms Detecting faces Definition Face detection is concerned with finding whether or not there are any faces in a given image (usually in gray scale) and‚ if present‚ return the image location and content of each face. This is the first step of any fully automatic system that analyzes the information contained in faces (e.g.‚ identity‚ gender‚ expression‚ age‚ race and pose). While earlier work
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“Thoughts” on Redistribution and Recognition The ideas of redistribution and recognition by Fraser‚ really intrigued me to further my thoughts on these concepts. Fraser explains that recognition can be a cultural group looking for recognition of difference whereas redistribution is classified as a transfer or reduction of socioeconomic classes. This made me wonder‚ does redistribution include a progression of taxes according to income? If this is true‚ I can see a strong indication of how this
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