Visual Hand Tracking Algorithms

Tracking is an important section in a gesture recognition system. Numerous techniques for segmentation, tracking, modeling and recognition have been proposed during several past years. A few papers comparing different approaches have been published. However, a comprehensive survey on tracking is still missing. We try to fill this vacuum by reviewing most widely used methods and techniques and collecting their numerical evaluation results

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