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ASSISTIVE
1998
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
A Wearable Computer Based American Sign Language Recognizer
Modern wearable computer designs package workstation level performance in systems small enough to be worn as clothing. These machines enable technology to be brought where it is n...
Thad Starner, Joshua Weaver, Alex Pentland
FGR
2006
IEEE
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13 years 10 months ago
Tracking Using Dynamic Programming for Appearance-Based Sign Language Recognition
We present a novel tracking algorithm that uses dynamic programming to determine the path of target objects and that is able to track an arbitrary number of different objects. The...
Philippe Dreuw, Thomas Deselaers, David Rybach, Da...
HCI
2009
13 years 2 months ago
A Similarity Measure for Vision-Based Sign Recognition
When we encounter an English word that we do not understand, we can look it up in a dictionary. However, when an American Sign Language (ASL) user encounters an unknown sign, looki...
Haijing Wang, Alexandra Stefan, Vassilis Athitsos
CGIM
2003
13 years 5 months ago
iSign: Making the Benefits of Reading Aloud Accessible to Families with Deaf Children
In this paper, we describe an application that helps hearing-impaired students learn to read and form words by translating speech into video clips of American Sign Language (ASL)....
T. Scarlatos, Lori L. Scarlatos, F. Gallarotti
AVSS
2007
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Recovering the linguistic components of the manual signs in American Sign Language
Manual signs in American Sign Language (ASL) are constructed using three building blocks – handshape, motion, and place of articulations. Only when these three are successfully ...
Liya Ding, Aleix M. Martínez