An automatic sign recognition and translation system

ACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Volumn 15-16-November-2001, Issue , 2001, Pages 9-

  Yang, Jie ^a   Gao, Jiang ^a   Zhang, Ying ^a   Chen, Xilin ^a   Waibel, Alex ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Perceptive user interface; Sign detection; Sign translation; Vision based interface

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGY; PATTERN RECOGNITION; TRANSLATION (LANGUAGES); VIDEO CAMERAS;

ENVIRONMENTAL AWARENESS; SIGN DETECTION; SPOKEN LANGUAGE TRANSLATION; SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; TRANSLATION SYSTEMS; USER-CENTERED APPROACH; VISION BASED INTERFACE; VISUALLY HANDICAPPED;

USER INTERFACES;

EID: 84982812596     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/971478.971490     Document Type: Conference Paper

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