Sign language finger alphabet recognition from gabor-PCA representation of hand gestures

Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Machine Learning and Cybernetics, ICMLC 2007

Volumn 4, Issue , 2007, Pages 2218-2223

  Amin, M Ashraful ^a   Hong, Yan ^a,b  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Clustering algorithm; Finger alphabet recognition; Gabor wavelets; PCA; Sign language

Indexed keywords

CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER AIDED ANALYSIS; DATA REDUCTION; FUZZY CLUSTERING; HANDICAPPED PERSONS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

FINGER ALPHABET RECOGNITION; GABOR WAVELETS; SIGN LANGUAGES;

GESTURE RECOGNITION;

EID: 38049001119     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICMLC.2007.4370514     Document Type: Conference Paper

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