Sign language recognition using a combination of new vision based features

Pattern Recognition Letters

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 572-577

  Zaki, Mahmoud M ^a   Shaheen, Samir I ^a  

^a CAIRO UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Appearance based features; Hand gesture; Hidden Markov Model (HMM); Kurtosis; PCA; Sign language recognition

Indexed keywords

APPEARANCE BASED; HAND GESTURE; HIDDEN MARKOV MODEL (HMM); KURTOSIS; PCA; SIGN LANGUAGE RECOGNITION;

CODES (SYMBOLS); FACE RECOGNITION; GESTURE RECOGNITION; HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS; NAVIGATION; OBJECT RECOGNITION; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

FEATURE EXTRACTION;

EID: 78650350692     PISSN: 01678655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.patrec.2010.11.013     Document Type: Article

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