Adaptive template method for early recognition of gestures

We propose a new approach for early gesture recognition. Early gesture recognition is a method to recognize sequential posture patterns at their beginning parts. Using early gesture recognition, we can reduce the delay and increase the interactivity of the system. The key issue of early recognition problem is how to recognize the beginning part of gesture. Generally, a reference gesture consists of a sequence of postures. Therefore, to realize early recognition we have to select beginning parts of the posture sequences. In this paper, we propose a method to obtain such beginning parts of the posture sequences, and demonstrate its effectiveness through some experiments.