Automated extraction of signs from continuous sign language sentences using iterated conditional modes

2009 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, CVPR 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 2583-2590

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

^a University of South Florida   (United States)

^b FLORIDA POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Photometria Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER VISION;

AUTOMATED EXTRACTION; ITERATED CONDITIONAL MODES; MULTIDIMENSIONAL TIME SERIES; MULTIPLE INSTANCES; MULTIPLE VIDEO SEQUENCES; SIGN LANGUAGE; SPOKEN WORDS; TRAINING SETS;

MODELING LANGUAGES;

EID: 70450186189     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CVPRW.2009.5206599     Document Type: Conference Paper

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