Reading the signs: A video based sign dictionary

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 914-919

  Cooper, Helen ^a   Pugeault, Nicolas ^a   Bowden, Richard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA SETS; MARKOV MODEL; RECOGNITION RATES; SIGN LANGUAGE; SIGN RECOGNITION; SUB-COMPONENTS; SUB-UNITS;

IMAGE PROCESSING; LINGUISTICS; MARKOV PROCESSES; PATTERN RECOGNITION;

VISUAL LANGUAGES;

EID: 84856668705     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICCVW.2011.6130349     Document Type: Conference Paper

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