Simultaneous 4 gestures 6 DOF real-time two-hand tracking without any markers

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@INPROCEEDINGS{schlattmann-2007-simultaneous,
      author = {Schlattmann, Markus and Klein, Reinhard},
       title = {Simultaneous 4 gestures 6 DOF real-time two-hand tracking without any markers},
   booktitle = {ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology (VRST '07)},
        year = {2007},
       month = nov,
    abstract = {In this paper we present a novel computer vision based handtracking
                method, which is capable of simultaneously tracking 6+4
                degrees of freedom (DOFs) of each human hand in real-time (25
                frames per second) with the help of 3 (or more) off-the-shelf consumer
                cameras. 6+4 DOF means that the system can track the
                global pose (6 continuous parameters for translation and rotation)
                of 4 different gestures. Different studies discovered the need for
                two-handed interaction to enable an intuitive 3D Human-Computer-
                Interaction. Previously, using both hands as at least 6 DOF input
                devices involved the use of either datagloves or markers. Applying
                our two-hand-tracking we evaluated the use of both hands as input
                devices for two applications: fly-through exploration of a virtual
                world and a mesh editing application.},
  conference = {VRST '07: The ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology}
}