Methods to describe and recognize sign language based on gesture components represented by symbols and numerical values

Knowledge-Based Systems

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 287-294

  Sagawa, Hirohiko ^a   Takeuchi, Masaru ^a   Ohki, Masaru ^a  

^a HITACHI LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chereme; Gesture description; Sign language recognition

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

GESTURE DESCRIPTIONS; SIGN LANGUAGE RECOGNITION;

PATTERN RECOGNITION;

EID: 0032024881     PISSN: 09507051     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0950-7051(97)00039-7     Document Type: Article

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