Real-Time American Sign Language Recognition from Video Using Hidden Markov Modells

AAAI Fall Symposium - Technical Report

Volumn FS-96-05, Issue , 1996, Pages 109-116

  Starner, Thad ^a   Pentland, Alex ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHARACTER RECOGNITION; MODELING LANGUAGES; SPEECH RECOGNITION; VISUAL LANGUAGES;

AMERICAN SIGN LANGUAGE; HAND GESTURE; HANDWRITING RECOGNITION; HIDDEN MARKOV; HIDDEN-MARKOV MODELS; REAL- TIME; SIGN LANGUAGE; SIGN LANGUAGE RECOGNITION; VISUAL RECOGNITION; WORD ACCURACIES;

HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS;

EID: 85169557314     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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