Facial feature tracking and occlusion recovery in American Sign Language

Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Pattern Recognition in Information Systems, PRIS 2006, in Conjunction with ICEIS 2006

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 81-90

  Castelli, Thomas J ^a   Betke, Margrit ^a   Neidle, Carol ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMERICAN SIGN LANGUAGE; FACE MODELS; FACIAL FEATURE; FACIAL FEATURE TRACKING; FACIAL GESTURES; GEOMETRIC RELATIONSHIPS; GRAMMATICAL INFORMATION; HEAD MOVEMENTS; KEY INDICATOR; OCCLUSION RECOVERY; SIGN LANGUAGE RECOGNITION; SYNTACTIC INFORMATION;

FACE RECOGNITION; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; LINGUISTICS; QUERY LANGUAGES;

PATTERN RECOGNITION SYSTEMS;

EID: 70350320317     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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