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FGR
2004
IEEE
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14 years 4 months ago
Towards a One-Way American Sign Language Translator
Inspired by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's (DARPA) recent successes in speech recognition, we introduce a new task for sign language recognition research: a ...
R. Martin McGuire, Jose L. Hernandez-Rebollar, Tha...
ACII
2005
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Static Gesture Quantization and DCT Based Sign Language Generation
To collect data for sign language recognition is not a trivial task. The lack of training data has become a bottleneck in the research of singer independence and large vocabulary r...
Chenxi Zhang, Feng Jiang, Hongxun Yao, Guilin Yao,...
ICMI
2005
Springer
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14 years 5 months ago
Recognition of sign language subwords based on boosted hidden Markov models
Sign language recognition (SLR) plays an important role in human-computer interaction (HCI), especially for the convenient communication between deaf and hearing society. How to e...
Liang-Guo Zhang, Xilin Chen, Chunli Wang, Yiqiang ...
IBPRIA
2005
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Robust Person-Independent Visual Sign Language Recognition
Sign language recognition constitutes a challenging field of research in computer vision. Common problems like overlap, ambiguities, and minimal pairs occur frequently and require...
Jörg Zieren, Karl-Friedrich Kraiss
GW
2005
Springer
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14 years 5 months ago
Visual Sign Language Recognition Based on HMMs and Auto-regressive HMMs
Abstract. A sign language recognition system based on Hidden Markov Models(HMMs) and Auto-regressive Hidden Markov Models(ARHMMs) has been proposed in this paper. ARHMMs fully cons...
Xiaolin Yang, Feng Jiang, Han Liu, Hongxun Yao, We...
GW
2005
Springer
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14 years 5 months ago
A Comparison Between Etymon- and Word-Based Chinese Sign Language Recognition Systems
Hitherto, one major challenge to sign language recognition is how to develop approaches that scale well with increasing vocabulary size. In large vocabulary speech recognition real...
Chunli Wang, Xilin Chen, Wen Gao
GW
2005
Springer
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14 years 5 months ago
Re-sampling for Chinese Sign Language Recognition
In Sign Language recognition, one of the problems is to collect enough data. Data collection for both training and testing is a laborious but necessary step. Almost all of the stat...
Chunli Wang, Xilin Chen, Wen Gao
ASSETS
2006
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
American sign language recognition in game development for deaf children
CopyCat is an American Sign Language (ASL) game, which uses gesture recognition technology to help young deaf children practice ASL skills. We describe a brief history of the game...
Helene Brashear, Valerie L. Henderson, Kwang-Hyun ...
ICPR
2006
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
A Unified System for Segmentation and Tracking of Face and Hands in Sign Language Recognition
This paper presents a unified system for segmentation and tracking of face and hands in a sign language recognition using a single camera. Unlike much related work that uses colou...
George Awad, Junwei Han, Alistair Sutherland
ICASSP
2009
IEEE
14 years 7 months ago
Product-HMMs for automatic sign language recognition
We address multistream sign language recognition and focus on efficient multistream integration schemes. Alternative approaches are investigated and the application of Product-HM...
Stavros Theodorakis, Athanassios Katsamanis, Petro...