Action recognition is a hot topic in the field of computer vision. It has been widely used in human–computer/robot interaction, abnormal behavior monitoring, and medical assistive. Because of the ...

In this paper, a new skeleton-based approach is proposed for 3D hand gesture recognition. Specifically, we exploit the geometric shape of the hand to extract an effective descriptor from hand skeleton ...

About 300 skeletons, some battle-scarred, have been identified as female; like Scythian men, these women were buried with their quivers of arrows, battle-axes, spears, and horses.

Now, thanks to ancient DNA and a sculptor’s art, we can meet her again.

Paleontologists have identified a new ancient reptile from the Solnhofen limestone slabs, thanks to a chance discovery. A ...