A new instrumented approach for translating American Sign Language into sound and text

Proceedings - Sixth IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 547-552

  Hernandez Rebollar, Jose L ^a   Kyriakopoulos, Nicholas ^a   Lindeman, Robert W ^a  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS (HMM); PHONETIC STRUCTURES; POSTURE; SIGN LANGUAGE;

CAMERAS; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; HUMAN ENGINEERING; PATTERN RECOGNITION; SENSORS; TRAJECTORIES; VECTORS;

GESTURE RECOGNITION;

EID: 4544320010     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/AFGR.2004.1301590     Document Type: Conference Paper

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