Unsupervised modeling of signs embedded in continuous sentences

IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops

Volumn 2005-September, Issue , 2005, Pages

  Nayak, Sunita ^a   Sarkar, Sudeep ^a   Loeding, Barbara ^b  

^a University of South Florida   (United States)

^b FLORIDA POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER VISION; DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING; SPEECH RECOGNITION; STATE SPACE METHODS; STATISTICAL TESTS;

CO-ARTICULATION; CONTINUOUS STATE SPACE MODELS; IMAGE-BASED FEATURES; LOW-LEVEL FEATURES; PROGRAMMING FRAMEWORK; SIGN LANGUAGE RECOGNITION; SPATIAL RELATIONSHIPS; UNSUPERVISED APPROACHES;

HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS;

EID: 67349090815     PISSN: 21607508     EISSN: 21607516     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CVPR.2005.547     Document Type: Conference Paper

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