Handshapes and movements: Multiple-channel American sign language recognition

Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (Subseries of Lecture Notes in Computer Science)

Volumn 2915, Issue , 2004, Pages 247-258

  Vogler, Christian ^a   Metaxas, Dimitris ^b  

^a GALLAUDET UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

AMERICAN SIGN LANGUAGE; BASIC BUILDING BLOCK; COMBINATORIAL EXPLOSION; FUNDAMENTAL BUILDING BLOCKS; MULTIPLE CHANNELS; SCALABLE RECOGNITION; THREE CHANNEL; HANDSHAPES; LANGUAGE RECOGNITION; RECOGNITION SYSTEMS;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; GESTURE RECOGNITION;

EID: 7444248023     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-24598-8_23     Document Type: Conference Paper

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