%0 Journal Article %T Combined Hand Gesture ¡ª Speech Model for Human Action Recognition %A Sheng-Tzong Cheng %A Chih-Wei Hsu %A Jian-Pan Li %J Sensors %D 2013 %I MDPI AG %R 10.3390/s131217098 %X This study proposes a dynamic hand gesture detection technology to effectively detect dynamic hand gesture areas, and a hand gesture recognition technology to improve the dynamic hand gesture recognition rate. Meanwhile, the corresponding relationship between state sequences in hand gesture and speech models is considered by integrating speech recognition technology with a multimodal model, thus improving the accuracy of human behavior recognition. The experimental results proved that the proposed method can effectively improve human behavior recognition accuracy and the feasibility of system applications. Experimental results verified that the multimodal gesture-speech model provided superior accuracy when compared to the single modal versions. %K hand gesture detection %K hand gesture recognition %K speech recognition %K human behavior %U http://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/13/12/17098