RETRACTED: Model-based 3D tracking of an articulated hand from single depth images

This article has been retracted: please see Elsevier Policy on Article Withdrawal (http://www.elsevier.com/locate/withdrawalpolicy).It has come to the attention of the Editors-in-Chief of Pattern Recognition Letters that most of the contents of this article are plagiarized from the two papers mentioned below:I. Oikonomidis, N. Kyriazis, and A. A. Argyros: Efficient Model-based 3D Tracking of Hand Articulations using Kinect, Proc. Of British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC) 2011, http://dx.doi.org/10.5244/C.25.101 andI. Oikonomidis, N. Kyriazis, and A. A. Argyros: Tracking the articulated motion of two strongly interacting hands, Proc. Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2012, http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/CVPR.2012.6247885.