On Feature Extraction and Sign Recognition for Greek Sign Language

Proceedings of the IASTED International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing

Volumn 7, Issue , 2003, Pages 93-98

  Pashaloudi, Vassilia N ^a   Margaritis, Konstantinos G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MACEDONIA   (Greece)

Author keywords

Greek Sign Language; Hidden Markov Models

Indexed keywords

DECODING; ESTIMATION; FACE RECOGNITION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; MARKOV PROCESSES; NEURAL NETWORKS; PERSONNEL TRAINING; VECTORS;

GREEK SIGN LANGUAGES (GSL); HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS (HMM);

LINGUISTICS;

EID: 1542286736     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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