Model-level data-driven sub-units for signs in videos of continuous sign language

ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 2262-2265

  Theodorakis, Stavros ^a   Pitsikalis, Vassilis ^a   Maragos, Petros ^a  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

HMM; Sign language; Subunit modeling

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER VISION; LINGUISTICS; MODELING LANGUAGES;

DATA DRIVEN; HIDDEN-MARKOV MODELS; PHONETIC INFORMATION; REGION-BASED; SIGN LANGUAGE; SIMPLE++; SUB-UNITS; SUBUNIT MODELING; VISUAL FEATURE; VISUAL-PROCESSING;

HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS;

EID: 78049380402     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2010.5495875     Document Type: Conference Paper

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