A novel approach to American Sign Language (ASL) phrase verification using reversed signing

2010 IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition - Workshops, CVPRW 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 48-55

  Zafrulla, Zahoor ^a   Brashear, Harley ^a   Hamilton, Harley ^a   Starner, Thad ^a  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

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AMERICAN SIGN LANGUAGE; CONFIDENCE MEASURE; CONVENTIONAL APPROACH; CROSS VALIDATION; DATA SETS; EDUCATIONAL GAME; FALSE REJECT RATE; GROUND TRUTH; INPUT DATAS; LIKELIHOOD SCORE; LOG-LIKELIHOOD RATIOS;

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EID: 77956511853     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CVPRW.2010.5543268     Document Type: Conference Paper

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