Geometric features for improving continuous appearance-based sign language recognition

BMVC 2006 - Proceedings of the British Machine Vision Conference 2006

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 1019-1028

  Zahedi, Morteza ^a   Dreuw, Philippe ^a   Rybach, David ^a   Deselaers, Thomas ^a   Ney, Hermann ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

APPEARANCE-BASED SIGN LANGUAGE; BASELINE SYSTEMS; GEOMETRIC FEATURE; LARGE VOCABULARY SPEECH RECOGNITION; OPTIMIZED SYSTEM; STATISTICAL FRAMEWORK; WORD ERROR RATE;

COMPUTER VISION;

EID: 84898023435     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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