A similarity measure for vision-based sign recognition

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 5616 LNCS, Issue PART 3, 2009, Pages 607-616

  Wang, Haijing ^a   Stefan, Alexandra ^a   Athitsos, Vassilis ^a  

^a University of Texas at Arlington   (United States)

Author keywords

American Sign Language; Dynamic Space Time Warping; Gesture recognition; Sign language recognition; Similarity based retrieval; Video databases

Indexed keywords

AMERICAN SIGN LANGUAGE; COMPUTER VISION SYSTEM; ENGLISH WORD; LOOKUPS; QUERY VIDEO; SIGN LANGUAGE RECOGNITION; SIGN RECOGNITION; SIMILARITY MEASURE; SIMILARITY-BASED RETRIEVAL; TIME WARPING; VIDEO DATABASE; VIDEO DATABASES; VISION BASED;

COMPUTER VISION; DATABASE SYSTEMS; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; LINGUISTICS; VIDEO RECORDING; WEAVING;

GESTURE RECOGNITION;

EID: 70350279563     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-02713-0_64     Document Type: Conference Paper

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