Recognition of continuous Korean sign language using gesture tension model and soft computing technique

IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems

Volumn E87-D, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1265-1270

  Kim, Jung Bae ^a   Bien, Zeungnam ^a  

^a Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Continuous gesture; Gesture recognition; Gesture tension model; Sign language recognition; Soft computing

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ATTENUATION; CHARACTER RECOGNITION; COLOR; FUZZY SETS; GESTURE RECOGNITION; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SKIN; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

CONTINUOUS GESTURE; GESTURE TENSION MODEL; SIGN LANGUAGE RECOGNITION; SOFT COMPUTING TECHNIQUE;

FORMAL LANGUAGES;

EID: 2642571855     PISSN: 09168532     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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