Australian sign language recognition

Machine Vision and Applications

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 312-320

  Holden, Eun Jung ^a   Lee, Gareth ^b   Owens, Robyn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b MURDOCH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Human recognition; Target detection; Vision system; Visual tracking

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; ROTATION; TWO DIMENSIONAL; VISION;

HUMAN RECOGNITION; TARGET DETECTION; VISION SYSTEMS; VISUAL TRACKING;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

EID: 29144509882     PISSN: 09328092     EISSN: 14321769     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00138-005-0003-1     Document Type: Article

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