Signer-independent continuous sign language recognition based on SRN/HMM

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

Volumn 2298, Issue , 2002, Pages 76-85

  Fang, Gaolin ^a   Gao, Wen ^a,b   Chen, Xilin ^a   Wang, Chunli ^c   Ma, Jiyong ^b  

^a HARBIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF COMPUTING TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c DALIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Chinese sign language; Continuous sign language recognition; Hidden markov models; Simple recurrent network

Indexed keywords

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; RECURRENT NEURAL NETWORKS; VITERBI ALGORITHM;

CHINESE SIGN LANGUAGE; DIVIDE-AND-CONQUER APPROACH; SIGN LANGUAGE RECOGNITION; SIMPLE RECURRENT NETWORKS; SUB-PROBLEMS;

HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS;

EID: 84942602108     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-47873-6_8     Document Type: Conference Paper

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