Signer-independent sign language recognition based on SOFM/HMM

Proceedings of the International Workshop on Recognition, Analysis, and Tracking of Faces and Gestures in Real-Time Systems

Volumn 2001-January, Issue January, 2001, Pages 90-95

  Fang, Gaolin ^a   Gao, Wen ^a,b   Ma, Jiyong ^b  

^a HARBIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF COMPUTING TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHARACTER RECOGNITION; COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; CONFORMAL MAPPING; FACE RECOGNITION; GESTURE RECOGNITION; HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; MARKOV PROCESSES; PATTERN RECOGNITION; SELF ORGANIZING MAPS; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

CHINESE SIGN LANGUAGE; HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS (HMMS); RECOGNITION ACCURACY; RECOGNITION ALGORITHM; SELF-ADJUSTING; SIGN LANGUAGE RECOGNITION; SIGN RECOGNITION; STATE OF THE ART;

REAL TIME SYSTEMS;

EID: 84931838110     PISSN: 15301044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/RATFG.2001.938915     Document Type: Conference Paper

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