Fingerspelling recognition through classification of letter-to-letter transitions

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 5996 LNCS, Issue PART 3, 2010, Pages 214-225

  Ricco, Susanna ^a   Tomasi, Carlo ^a  

^a Duke University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMERICAN SIGN LANGUAGE; AT-SPEED; ERROR PRONES; STATIC POSTURES; TEMPORAL SEGMENTATIONS;

COMPUTER VISION;

EID: 78650444526     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-12297-2_21     Document Type: Conference Paper

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