Progress in automated computer recognition of sign language

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 3118, Issue , 2004, Pages 1079-1087

  Loeding, Barbara L ^a   Sarkar, Sudeep ^b   Parashar, Ayush ^b   Karshmer, Arthur I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PATTERN RECOGNITION;

AUTOMATED RECOGNITION; HEAD MOVEMENTS; SIGN LANGUAGE; SIGN RECOGNITION; STATE OF THE ART;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

EID: 33748561381     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-27817-7_159     Document Type: Article

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