HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS FOR MODELING AND RECOGNIZING GESTURE UNDER VARIATION

Author(s):  
ANDREW D. WILSON ◽  
AARON F. BOBICK

Conventional application of hidden Markov models to the task of recognizing human gesture may suffer from multiple sources of systematic variation in the sensor outputs. We present two frameworks based on hidden Markov models which are designed to model and recognize gestures that vary in systematic ways. In the first, the systematic variation is assumed to be communicative in nature, and the input gesture is assumed to belong to gesture family. The variation across the family is modeled explicitly by the parametric hidden Markov model (PHMM). In the second framework, variation in the signal is overcome by relying on online learning rather than conventional offline, batch learning.

2014 ◽  
Vol 2014 ◽  
pp. 1-7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yanxue Zhang ◽  
Dongmei Zhao ◽  
Jinxing Liu

The biggest difficulty of hidden Markov model applied to multistep attack is the determination of observations. Now the research of the determination of observations is still lacking, and it shows a certain degree of subjectivity. In this regard, we integrate the attack intentions and hidden Markov model (HMM) and support a method to forecasting multistep attack based on hidden Markov model. Firstly, we train the existing hidden Markov model(s) by the Baum-Welch algorithm of HMM. Then we recognize the alert belonging to attack scenarios with the Forward algorithm of HMM. Finally, we forecast the next possible attack sequence with the Viterbi algorithm of HMM. The results of simulation experiments show that the hidden Markov models which have been trained are better than the untrained in recognition and prediction.


2016 ◽  
Vol 19 (58) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Daniel Fernando Tello Gamarra

We demonstrate an improved method for utilizing observed gaze behavior and show that it is useful in inferring hand movement intent during goal directed tasks. The task dynamics and the relationship between hand and gaze behavior are learned using an Abstract Hidden Markov Model (AHMM). We show that the predicted hand movement transitions occur consistently earlier in AHMM models with gaze than those models that do not include gaze observations.


2019 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 14 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luis Acedo

Hidden Markov models are a very useful tool in the modeling of time series and any sequence of data. In particular, they have been successfully applied to the field of mathematical linguistics. In this paper, we apply a hidden Markov model to analyze the underlying structure of an ancient and complex manuscript, known as the Voynich manuscript, which remains undeciphered. By assuming a certain number of internal states representations for the symbols of the manuscripts, we train the network by means of the α and β -pass algorithms to optimize the model. By this procedure, we are able to obtain the so-called transition and observation matrices to compare with known languages concerning the frequency of consonant andvowel sounds. From this analysis, we conclude that transitions occur between the two states with similar frequencies to other languages. Moreover, the identification of the vowel and consonant sounds matches some previous tentative bottom-up approaches to decode the manuscript.


2000 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 494-495
Author(s):  
Ingmar Visser

Page's manifesto makes a case for localist representations in neural networks, one of the advantages being ease of interpretation. However, even localist networks can be hard to interpret, especially when at some hidden layer of the network distributed representations are employed, as is often the case. Hidden Markov models can be used to provide useful interpretable representations.


Author(s):  
KEREN YU ◽  
XIAOYI JIANG ◽  
HORST BUNKE

In this paper, we describe a systematic approach to the lipreading of whole sentences. A vocabulary of elementary words is considered. Based on the vocabulary, we define a grammar that generates a set of legal sentences. Our lipreading approach is based on a combination of the grammar with hidden Markov models (HMMs). Two different experiments were conducted. In the first experiment a set of e-mail commands is considered, while the set of sentences in the second experiment is given by all English integer numbers up to one million. Both experiments showed promising results, regarding the difficulty of the considered task.


Author(s):  
Intan Nurma Yulita Houw Liong The ◽  
◽  
Adiwijaya ◽  

Indonesia has many tribes, so that there are many dialects. Speech classification is difficult if the database uses speech signals from various people who have different characteristics because of gender and dialect. The different characteristics will influence frequency, intonation, amplitude, and period of the speech. It makes the system must be trained for the various templates reference of speech signal. Therefore, this study has been developed for Indonesian speech classification. The solution is a new combination of fuzzy on hidden Markov models. The result shows a new version of fuzzy hiddenMarkovmodels is better than hidden Markov model.


2018 ◽  
Vol 161 ◽  
pp. 03011
Author(s):  
Jesus Savage ◽  
Oscar Fuentes ◽  
Luis Contreras ◽  
Marco Negrete

This paper describes a map representation and localization system for a mobile robot based on Hidden Markov Models. These models are used not only to find a region where a mobile robot is, but also they find the orientation that it has. It is shown that an estimation of the region where the robot is located can be found using the Viterbi algorithm with quantized laser readings, i.e. symbol observations, of a Hidden Markov Model.


2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 172988141983484 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hongmin Wu ◽  
Yisheng Guan ◽  
Juan Rojas

Robot introspection aids robots to understand what they do and how they do it. Previous robot introspection techniques have often used parametric hidden Markov models or supervised learning techniques, implying that the number of hidden states or classes is defined a priori and fixed through the entire modeling process. Fixed parameterizations limit the modeling power of a process to properly encode the data. Furthermore, first-order Markov models are limited in their ability to model complex data sequences that represent highly dynamic behaviors as they assume observations are conditionally independent given the state. In this work, we contribute a Bayesian nonparametric autoregressive Hidden Markov model for the monitoring of robot contact tasks, which are characterized by complex dynamical data that are hard to model. We used a nonparametric prior that endows our hidden Markov models with an unbounded number of hidden states for a given robot skill (or subtask). We use a hierarchical Dirichlet stochastic process prior to learn an hidden Markov model with a switching vector autoregressive observation model of wrench signatures and end-effector pose for the manipulation contact tasks. The proposed scheme monitors both nominal skill execution and anomalous behaviors. Two contact tasks are used to measure the effectiveness of our approach: (i) a traditional pick-and-place task composed of four skills and (ii) a cantilever snap assembly task (also composed of four skills). The modeling performance or our approach was compared with other methods, and classification accuracy measures were computed for skill and anomaly identification. The hierarchical Dirichlet stochastic process prior to learn an hidden Markov model with a switching vector autoregressive observation model was shown to have excellent process monitoring performance with higher identification rates and monitoring ability.


2015 ◽  
Vol 2015 ◽  
pp. 1-7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hyesuk Kim ◽  
Incheol Kim

We introduce a vision-based arm gesture recognition (AGR) system using Kinect. The AGR system learns the discrete Hidden Markov Model (HMM), an effective probabilistic graph model for gesture recognition, from the dynamic pose of the arm joints provided by the Kinect API. Because Kinect’s viewpoint and the subject’s arm length can substantially affect the estimated 3D pose of each joint, it is difficult to recognize gestures reliably with these features. The proposed system performs the feature transformation that changes the 3D Cartesian coordinates of each joint into the 2D spherical angles of the corresponding arm part to obtain view-invariant and more discriminative features. We confirmed high recognition performance of the proposed AGR system through experiments with two different datasets.


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