Recognizing spatiotemporal gestures and movement epenthesis in sign language

IMVIP 2009 - 2009 International Machine Vision and Image Processing Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 145-150

  Kelly, Daniel ^a   McDonald, John ^a   Markham, Charles ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AREA UNDER THE CURVES; HAND GESTURE; MACHINE RECOGNITION; ROC ANALYSIS; SIGN LANGUAGE;

COMPUTER VISION; IMAGING SYSTEMS;

LINGUISTICS;

EID: 72849130536     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IMVIP.2009.33     Document Type: Conference Paper

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