Automatic skin segmentation and tracking in sign language recognition

IET Computer Vision

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 24-35

  Han, J ^a   Awad, G ^b   Sutherland, A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c DUBLIN CITY UNIVERSITY   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE LEARNING; EXPERIMENTAL EVALUATION; ILLUMINATION VARIATION; OBJECT TRACKING; POSITION INFORMATION; REAL-WORLD; REGION SEGMENTATION; SEGMENTATION AND TRACKING; SIGN LANGUAGE RECOGNITION; SKIN COLOUR; SKIN SEGMENTATION; TRACKING SYSTEM;

COLOR; CONTROL THEORY; EDUCATION; LINGUISTICS; NAVIGATION; TRACKING (POSITION);

SKIN;

EID: 67249130294     PISSN: 17519632     EISSN: 17519640     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/iet-cvi:20080006     Document Type: Article

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