Matthew
Turk
University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA.
mturk@cs.ucsb.edu
Abstract
There has been a significant volume of
research on vision based gesture recognition in the past decade, and
most
papers on the subject begin with a brief explanation of why this is an
important
subject. Rarely, if ever, are these explanations convincing. Is there a
compelling argument to be made that vision based gesture recognition is
needed
and useful beyond a limited number of niche applications? Or is this
largely a
community of researchers just looking to develop technology, regardless
of it
eventual utility? In this talk I will opine about the importance (or
lack
thereof) of gesture recognition and discuss relevant technical issues
and
obstacles in current gesture acquisition research.