Early Recognition of Gestures

This paper is concerned with two topics on gesture recognition. The first topic is early recognition for providing the recognition result of a gesture before the gesture is completed. The second topic is motion prediction for guessing the subsequent posture of the person who makes a gesture. Both topics are mutually related and linked to the realization of proactive humanmachine interface. For each of those two topics, a simple technique is developed and examined to reveal its limitation. Possible directions to deal with the limitation are also discussed as the future work on those topics.