Error-tolerant sign retrieval using visual features and maximum a posteriori estimation

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 495-508

  Wu, Chung Hsien ^a   Chiu, Yu Hsien ^a   Cheng, Kung Wei ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Alternative and augmentative communication; Error tolerant retrieval; Gesture feature; Taiwanese sign language

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING; ESTIMATION; INDEXING (OF INFORMATION); INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; OBJECT RECOGNITION; PATTERN MATCHING; QUERY LANGUAGES; USER INTERFACES;

ANTHROPOMORPHIC INTERFACE; ERROR TOLERANT RETRIEVAL; GESTURE RETRIEVAL; POSTERIORI ESTIMATION; SIGN RETRIEVAL; TAIWANESE SIGN LANGUAGE;

FEATURE EXTRACTION;

ALGORITHM; ARM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMMUNICATION AID; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVALUATION; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE SUBTRACTION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; METHODOLOGY; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; QUALITY CONTROL; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGN LANGUAGE; SIGNAL PROCESSING; VALIDATION STUDY;

ALGORITHMS; ARM; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMMUNICATION AIDS FOR DISABLED; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; QUALITY CONTROL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGN LANGUAGE; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 1842478898     PISSN: 01628828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPAMI.2004.1265864     Document Type: Article

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