Real-Time
Hand
Gesture
Recognition
in
Complex
Environments
by
Milyn
C. Moy
Submitted
to
the
Department
of
Electrical
Engineering
and
Computer
Science
in
partial
fulfillment of
the
requirements
for
the
degrees
of
Master
of
Engineering
in
Electrical
Engineering
and Computer
Science
and
Bachelor of
Science
in
Computer
Science
and
Engineering
at
the
Massachusetts
Institute
of
Technology
May
1998
@
Milyn
C.
Moy,
MCMXCVIII.
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MIT
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Computer
Science
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22, 1998
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of
Electrical
Engineering
and
Computer
Science
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