In this paper, we present how appearance-based features can be used for the recognition of words in American sign language (ASL) from a video stream. The features are extracted wit...
Sign language recognition constitutes a challenging field of research in computer vision. Common problems like overlap, ambiguities, and minimal pairs occur frequently and require...
In this paper we study the problem of finding most topical named entities among all entities in a document, which we refer to as focused named entity recognition. We show that th...
A real-time audio segmentation and indexing scheme is presented in this paper. Audio recordings are segmented and classified into basic audio types such as silence, speech, music,...
Abstract. Multiresolution techniques are often used to shorten the execution times of dynamic programming based deformable contour optimization methods by decreasing the image reso...