Towards a one-way American sign language translator

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

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 620-625

  McGuire, R Martin ^a   Hernandez Rebollar, Jose ^b   Starner, Thad ^a   Henderson, Valerie ^a   Brashear, Helene ^a   Ross, Danielle S ^c  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b The George Washington University   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMERICAN SIGN LANGUAGE (ASL); DEFENSE ADVANCED RESEARCH PROJECTS AGENCY (DARPA); ELECTROMAGNETIC TRACKERS; HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS (HMM);

CAMERAS; DATA ACQUISITION; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); HEARING AIDS; MARKOV PROCESSES; NEURAL NETWORKS; PROGRAM INTERPRETERS; WEARABLE COMPUTERS;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 4544351005     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/AFGR.2004.1301602     Document Type: Conference Paper

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