The “Midas Touch” problem has long been a<br>difficult problem existing in gesture-based interaction. This<br>paper proposes a visual attention-based method to address<br>this problem from the perspective of cognitive psychology.<br>There are three main contributions in this paper: (1) a visual<br>attention-based parallel perception model is constructed by<br>combining top-down and bottom-up attention, (2) a framework<br>is proposed for dynamic gesture spotting and recognition<br /