Real-time Malaysian sign language translation using colour segmentation and neural network

Conference Record - IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages

  Akmeliawati, Rini ^a   Ooi, Melanie Po Leen ^a   Kuang, Ye Chow ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Image processing; Neural network; Sign language

Indexed keywords

COLOR; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; NEURAL NETWORKS; REAL TIME SYSTEMS;

REAL-TIME MALAYSIAN SIGN LANGUAGE TRANSLATION; SIGN LANGUAGE; SIGN LANGUAGE RECOGNITION; SIGN-LANGUAGE TRANSLATORS;

TRANSLATION (LANGUAGES);

EID: 34648813253     PISSN: 10915281     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/imtc.2007.379311     Document Type: Conference Paper

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