CUED SPEECH HAND SHAPE RECOGNITION - Belief Functions as a Formalism to Fuse SVMs & Expert Systems

Thomas Burger, Alexandra Urankar, Oya Aran, Lale Akarun, Alice Caplier

2007

Abstract

As part of our work on hand gesture interpretation, we present our results on hand shape recognition. Our method is based on attribute extraction and multiple binary SVM classification. The novelty lies in the fashion the fusion of all the partial classification results are performed. This fusion is (1) more efficient in terms of information theory and leads to more accurate result, (2) general enough to allow other source of information to be taken into account: Each SVM output is transformed to a belief function, and all the corresponding functions are fused together with some other external evidential sources of information.

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Burger T., Urankar A., Aran O., Akarun L. and Caplier A. (2007). CUED SPEECH HAND SHAPE RECOGNITION - Belief Functions as a Formalism to Fuse SVMs & Expert Systems . In Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 2: VISAPP, ISBN 978-972-8865-74-0, pages 5-12. DOI: 10.5220/0002041700050012


in Bibtex Style

@conference{visapp07,
author={Thomas Burger and Alexandra Urankar and Oya Aran and Lale Akarun and Alice Caplier},
title={CUED SPEECH HAND SHAPE RECOGNITION - Belief Functions as a Formalism to Fuse SVMs & Expert Systems},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 2: VISAPP,},
year={2007},
pages={5-12},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002041700050012},
isbn={978-972-8865-74-0},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 2: VISAPP,
TI - CUED SPEECH HAND SHAPE RECOGNITION - Belief Functions as a Formalism to Fuse SVMs & Expert Systems
SN - 978-972-8865-74-0
AU - Burger T.
AU - Urankar A.
AU - Aran O.
AU - Akarun L.
AU - Caplier A.
PY - 2007
SP - 5
EP - 12
DO - 10.5220/0002041700050012