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Computer Science and Moves Institute
Naval Postgraduate School, MOVES, mailstop WA-265
700 Dyer Road Monterey, CA, 93943-5001
Tel: (831)-656-3443
 
 
 

Publications

2008

  • “Designing Hand Gesture Vocabularies for Natural Interaction by Combining Psycho-Physiological and Recognition Factors”. H. Stern, J.P. Wachs. Y. Edan. 2008. Int. Journal of Semantic Computing. Special Issue on Gesture in Multimodal Systems. 2008. Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 137-160. PDF
  • “A hand gesture sterile tool for browsing MRI images in the OR”. J. Wachs, H. Stern, Y. Edan, M. Gillam, C. Feied, M. Smith, and J. Handler. 2008. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. Volume 15, Issue 3. PDF
  • “A Real-Time Hand Gesture Interface for a Medical Image Guided System”. J. Wachs, H. Stern, Y. Edan, M. Gillam, C. Feied, M. Smith, and J. Handler. International Journal of Intelligent Computing in Medical Sciences and Image Processing. 2008 .Vol. 1, No. 3, Issue 1, pp. 175-185. PDF
  • “Optimal Consensus Intuitive Hand Gesture Vocabulary Design.” H. Stern, J. Wachs and Y. Edan. In Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing, 2008. pp. 96-103. PDF
  • “A Holistic Framework for Hand Gestures Design.” J. Wachs, H. Stern, Y. Edan. In Proceedings of 2nd Annual Visual and Iconic Language Conference. July 21-22, San Diego, CA, 2008, pp. 24-34. PDF

2007

  • “Gestix: A Doctor-Computer Sterile Gesture Interface for Dynamic Environments”. J. Wachs, H. Stern, Y. Edan, M. Gillam, C. Feied, M. Smith, J. Handler. Soft Computing in Industrial Applications. Recent and Emerging Methods and Techniques Series: Advances in Soft Computing, Vol. 39 Saad, A.; Avineri, E.; Dahal, K.; Sarfraz, M.; Roy, R. (Eds.) 2007, pp. 30-39. PDF
  • “Multi-modal Registration Using a Combined Similarity Measure”. J. Wachs, H. Stern, T. Burks, and V.Alchanatis. Applications of Soft Computing: Recent Trends. Springer Verlag, Germany, Series: Advances in Soft Computing ,Tiwari, A.; Knowles, J.; Avineri, E.; Dahal, K.; Roy, R. (Eds.), vol. 38, pp. 170-180 (to appear). PDF
  • “An Analytic Approach for Optimal Hand Gestures”., H. Stern, J. Wachs, Y. Edan. In Proc. of the 7th Intl Workshop on Gesture in Human-Computer Interaction and Simulation, GW 2007. 23-25 May 2007, Lisbon, Portugal. PDF
  • “Doctor-Computer Interface using Gestures”, J. Wachs, H. Stern, Y. Edan, M. Gillam, C. Feied, M. Smith, J. Handler, In Workshop on Gesture in Human-Computer Interaction and Simulation, GW 2007. 23-25 May 2007, Lisbon, Portugal. PDF

2006

  • “Human factors for design of hand gesture Human - Machine Interaction”. H. Stern, J. Wachs, Y. Edan. Proceedings of 2006 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Oct. 8 -11, Taipei, Taiwan, 2006, pp. 4052-4056. PDF
  • “Optimal Hand Gesture Vocabulary Design Using Psycho-Physiological and Technical Factors”. H. Stern, J. Wachs, Y. Edan. Proceedings of 7th International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition, FG2006, Southampton, UK, April 10-12 2006, pp. 257-262. PDF
  • “A Real-Time Hand Gesture Interface for Medical Visualization Applications”. J. Wachs, H. Stern, Y. Edan, M. Gillam, C. Feied, M. Smith, J. Handler. 2006. Applications of Soft Computing : Recent Trends. Springer Verlag, Germany, Series: Advances in Soft Computing ,Tiwari, A.; Knowles, J.; Avineri, E.; Dahal, K.; Roy, R. (Eds.), vol. 36, pp. 153-163. PDF
  • “A Real-Time Hand Gesture System Based on Evolutionary Search”. J. Wachs, H. Stern, Y. Edan, M. Gillam, C. Feied, M. Smith, and J. Handler. Vision. vol. 22, no. 3, Oct. 2006, Dearborn, Mich.: Society of Manufacturing Engineers. PDF
  • “A Real-Time Hand Gesture Interface for a Medical Image Guided System”. J. Wachs, H. Stern, Y. Edan, M. Gillam, C. Feied, M. Smith and J. Handler. In the Ninth Israeli Symposium on Computer-Aided Surgery, Medical Robotics, and Medical Imaging, ISRACAS 2006, May 11, 2006, Petach Tikva, Israel. PDF

2005

  • “Cluster Labeling and Parameter Estimation for the Automated Setup of a Hand-Gesture Recognition System”. J. Wachs, H. Stern, Y. Edan. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics. Part A. vol. 35, no. 6, Nov. 2005, pp. 932-944. PDF
  • “A Method to Enhance the ‘Possibilistic C-Means with Repulsion’ Algorithm based on Cluster Validity Index”. J. Wachs, O. Shapira, and H. Stern. 2005. Applied Soft Computing Technologies: The Challenge of Complexity, Springer Verlag, Germany, Series: Advances in Soft Computing, Abraham, A.; Baets, B.d.; Köppen, M.; Nickolay, B. (Eds.),vol. 34, pp. 77-90. PDF
  • “KISS Human-Robot Interfaces”. A. Eliav, T. Lavie, Y. Parmet, H. Stern, J. Wachs, Y. Edan. In the 18th International Conference on Production Research (ICPR), July, 2005, Salerno, Italy.
  • "A Real-Time Hand Gesture System based on Evolutionary Search”. J. Wachs, H. Stern, Y. Edan, M. Gillam, C. Feied, M. Smith and J. Handler, In Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO ’05), June, 2005 ,Washington DC, USA. PDF

2004

  • “Hand Gesture Vocabulary Design: A Multicriteria Optimization”. H. Stern, J. Wachs, Y. Edan. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man & Cybernetics. The Hague, Netherlands, 2004. PDF
  • “A Graphical method based on the Xie-Beni Validity index to improve the ‘Possibilistic C-Means with Repulsion’ Algorithm”. O. Shapira and J. Wachs. In Proceedings of the 4th International Symposium on Intelligent Manufacturing Systems, Sakarya, Turkey, 2004, pp. 958 – 967. PDF
  • “Optimization of hand gesture command vocabularies - A multiobjetive quadratic assignment approach”. Paper selected to represent Israel at X ELAVIO Latin American Association of Operations Research Societies Summer School for Young Scholars. Montevideo, Uruguay, 2004. PDF
  • “Parameter Calibration for Reconfiguration of a Hand Gesture Tele-Robotic Control System”. H. Stern, J. Wachs, Y. Edan. In Proceedings of the U.S.A.-Japan Symposium on Flexible Automation, Denver, Colorado, 2004. PDF

2003

  • “Parameter search for an image processing fuzzy C-means hand gesture recognition system”. J. Wachs, H. Stern, Y. Edan. In Proc. of IEEE Intl Conference on Image Processing ICIP, 2003, Spain, vol 3, pp. 341. PDF

2002

  • “Segmentation of Faces Using Fuzzy Min-Max Neural Network”. J. Wachs, H. Stern, M. Last. International Journal of Image and Graphics. vol. 2, no. 4, 2002, pp: 587-601. PDF
  • “Real-Time Hand Gesture Telerobotic System Using the Fuzzy C-Means Clustering Algorithm”. J. Wachs, U. Kartoun, Y. Edan, H. Stern. In IE&M 2002, Proc. 2th annual conference of Industrial Engineering and Management, Tel-Aviv, Israel, pp. 94-98. Received Student Paper Award. PDF
  • “Real-Time Hand Gesture Telerobotic System Using the Fuzzy C-Means Clustering Algorithm”. J. Wachs, U. Kartoun, Y. Edan, H. Stern. In Proceedings of the 5th Biannual World Automation Congress, WAC 2002, Orlando, Florida, USA, vol. 13, pp. 403 – 409. PDF

Thesis

  • PhD Thesis: "Optimal Hand Gesture Vocabulary Design Methodology for Virtual Robotic Control". J. Wachs. Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, 2007. (289 pages, PDF)