Facial and head movements of a sign interpreter and their application to Japanese sign animation

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

Volumn 3118, Issue , 2004, Pages 1172-1177

  Kawano, Sumihiro ^a   Kurokawa, Takao ^b  

^a TSUKUBA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b KYOTO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; TRANSLATION (LANGUAGES);

COMMUNICATION ENVIRONMENTS; HEAD MOVEMENTS; HEARING IMPAIRED; JAPANESE SIGN LANGUAGES; LINGUISTIC INFORMATION; MULTI-MODAL;

AUDITION;

EID: 35048872704     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-27817-7_172     Document Type: Article

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