A novel approach to automatically extracting basic units from chinese sign language

Proceedings - International Conference on Pattern Recognition

Volumn 4, Issue , 2004, Pages 454-457

  Fang, Gaolin ^a   Gao, Xiujuan ^a   Gao, Wen ^a,b   Chen, Yiqiang ^b  

^a HARBIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF COMPUTING TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHINESE SIGN LANGUAGE (CSL); HIDDEN MARKOV MODEL (HMM); SIGN LANGUAGE RECOGNITION (SLR); TEMPORAL CLUSTERING ALGORITHM;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER VISION; DATABASE SYSTEMS; ENCODING (SYMBOLS); HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 10044236337     PISSN: 10514651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICPR.2004.1333800     Document Type: Conference Paper

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