Advances in phonetics-based sub-unit modeling for transcription alignment and sign language recognition

IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Pitsikalis, Vassilis ^a   Theodorakis, Stavros ^a   Vogler, Christian ^b   Maragos, Petros ^a  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS NTUA   (Greece)

^b INSTITUTE FOR LANGUAGE AND SPEECH PROCESSING   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC RECOGNITION; BOUNDARY INFORMATION; DATA-DRIVEN APPROACH; PHONETIC TRANSCRIPTIONS; SIGN LANGUAGE; SIGN LANGUAGE RECOGNITION; STATISTICAL MODELS; STRUCTURED SEQUENCE; SUB-UNITS; SYMBOLIC PROCESSING; VISUAL DATA; VISUAL FEATURE;

COMPUTER VISION; TRANSCRIPTION;

LINGUISTICS;

EID: 80054935152     PISSN: 21607508     EISSN: 21607516     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CVPRW.2011.5981681     Document Type: Conference Paper

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