'Can you see me now?' An objective metric for predicting intelligibility of compressed American sign language video

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6492, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Ciaramello, Francis M ^a   Hemami, Sheila S ^a  

^a School of Operations Research and Industrial Engineering

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMAGE CODING; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

CELLULAR TECHNOLOGY; SIGN LANGUAGE VIDEO; TEXT-BASED COMMUNICATION; VIDEO RELAY SERVICES;

IMAGE COMPRESSION;

EID: 34548280749     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.707448     Document Type: Conference Paper

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