Synthetic data generation technique in Signer-independent sign language recognition

Pattern Recognition Letters

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 513-524

  Jiang, Feng ^a   Gao, Wen ^a   Yao, Hongxun ^a   Zhao, Debin ^a   Chen, Xilin ^b  

^a HARBIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF COMPUTING TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

HMMs; Mean Shift; Signer independent sign recognition; Synthetic data driving

Indexed keywords

GAS EMISSIONS; LINGUISTICS;

DENSITY FUNCTIONS; EXPERIMENTAL CONDITIONS; HMMS; MEAN SHIFT; MEAN SHIFT ALGORITHMS; MULTI STREAMS; RECOGNITION ACCURACIES; SIGN LANGUAGE RECOGNITION; SIGNER-INDEPENDENT SIGN RECOGNITION; SYNTHETIC DATA DRIVING; TRAINING SAMPLES; TRAINING SETS;

VECTOR QUANTIZATION;

EID: 60249101249     PISSN: 01678655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.patrec.2008.12.007     Document Type: Article

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