Toward scalability in ASL recognition: Breaking down signs into phonemes

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

Volumn 1739, Issue , 1999, Pages 211-224

  Vogler, Christian ^a   Metaxas, Dimitris ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS; MARKOV PROCESSES;

BASIC UNITS; HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS (HMMS); HMM-BASED; PHONOLOGICAL MODELING;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

EID: 84958962331     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-46616-9_19     Document Type: Conference Paper

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