Improved face and hand tracking for sign language recognition

International Conference on Information Technology: Coding and Computing, ITCC

Volumn 2, Issue , 2005, Pages 141-146

  Soontranon, N ^a   Aramvith, S ^a   Chalidabhongse, T H ^b  

^a CHULALONGKORN UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^b KING MONGKUT'S INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY LADKRABANG   (Thailand)

Author keywords

Ellipse model; Hand tracking; Motion estimation; Sign language; Skin color segmentation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CHARACTER RECOGNITION; COLOR IMAGE PROCESSING; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; FACE RECOGNITION; GESTURE RECOGNITION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MOTION ESTIMATION; SKIN; TRACKING (POSITION);

ELLIPSE MODEL; HAND TRACKING; SIGN LANGUAGES; SKIN-COLOR SEGMENTATION;

PATTERN RECOGNITION SYSTEMS;

EID: 24744443899     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/itcc.2005.172     Document Type: Conference Paper

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