Image statistics of American Sign Language: Comparison with faces and natural scenes

Journal of the Optical Society of America A: Optics and Image Science, and Vision

Volumn 23, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 2085-2096

  Bosworth, Rain G ^a   Bartlett, Marian Stewart ^b   Dobkins, Karen R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION AIDS FOR NONVOCAL PERSONS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; PHOTOGRAPHY; VISION;

AMERICAN SIGN LANGUAGE; FOURIER ANALYSIS; IMAGE STATISTICS; MEAN AMPLITUDE; SPATIAL FREQUENCY;

IMAGE ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; FACE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGN LANGUAGE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VISION;

DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FACE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGN LANGUAGE; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 33750118153     PISSN: 10847529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAA.23.002085     Document Type: Article

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