HMM-based continuous sign language recognition using stochastic grammars

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

Volumn 1739, Issue , 1999, Pages 185-196

  Hienz, Hermann ^a   Bauer, Britta ^a   Kraiss, Karl Friedrich ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; IMAGE RECORDING; MARKOV PROCESSES; STOCHASTIC MODELS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS; VIDEO CAMERAS;

BI-GRAM LANGUAGE MODELS; HMM-BASED; SIGN LANGUAGE; SIGN LANGUAGE RECOGNITION; STOCHASTIC GRAMMARS; STOCHASTIC LANGUAGE MODELS;

HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS;

EID: 84958953848     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-46616-9_17     Document Type: Conference Paper

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