Gesture recognition approach for sign language using curvature scale space and hidden Markov model

2004 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME)

Volumn 2, Issue , 2004, Pages 1187-1190

  Chang, Chin Chen ^a   Pengwu, Chung Mou ^b  

^a CHUNG HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; FORMAL LANGUAGES; MARKOV PROCESSES; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; ROTATION; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS; THRESHOLD ELEMENTS;

CURVATURE SCALE SPACE (CSS); HAND POSTURE RECOGNITION; MODEL-BASED TRACKING; SIGN LANGUAGE RECOGNITION;

GESTURE RECOGNITION;

EID: 11244338155     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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