Recognition of local features for camera-based sign language recognition system

Proceedings - International Conference on Pattern Recognition

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 849-853

  Imagawa, Kazuyuki ^a   Matsuo, Hideaki ^b   Taniguchi, Rin Ichiro ^c   Arita, Daisaku ^c   Lu, Shan ^b   Igi, Seiji ^b  

^a PANASONIC CORPORATION   (Japan)

^b KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMAGE PROCESSING;

CLUSTERING TECHNIQUES; GLOBAL FEATURE; HAND MOVEMENT; LOCAL FEATURE; SIGN LANGUAGE; SIGN LANGUAGE IMAGE; SIGN LANGUAGE RECOGNITION; TRAINING SETS;

PATTERN RECOGNITION SYSTEMS;

EID: 33750921419     PISSN: 10514651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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