Geodesic active regions for segmentation and tracking of human gestures in sign language videos

Proceedings - International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 1096-1099

  Diamanti, Olga ^a   Maragos, Petros ^a  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Color model; Geodesic active regions; Optical flow; Segmentation; Sign language; Tracking

Indexed keywords

COLOR MODEL; GEODESIC ACTIVE REGIONS; SEGMENTATION; SIGN LANGUAGE; TRACKING;

ALGORITHMS; COLOR; EXTRATERRESTRIAL ATMOSPHERES; GEODESY; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGING SYSTEMS; LINGUISTICS; OPTICAL DATA PROCESSING; SKIN;

OPTICAL FLOWS;

EID: 69949160407     PISSN: 15224880     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICIP.2008.4711950     Document Type: Conference Paper

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