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FGR
2006
IEEE
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Expanding Training Set for Chinese Sign Language Recognition
In Sign Language recognition, one of the problems is to collect enough training data. Almost all of the statistical methods used in Sign Language Recognition suffer from this prob...
Chunli Wang, Xilin Chen, Wen Gao
GW
2007
Springer
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Gesture Modelling for Linguistic Purposes
The study of sign languages attempts to create a coherent model that binds the expressive nature of signs conveyed in gestures to a linguistic framework. Gesture modelling offers a...
Guillaume J.-L. Olivrin
ASSETS
2007
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
Variable frame rate for low power mobile sign language communication
The MobileASL project aims to increase accessibility by enabling Deaf people to communicate over video cell phones in their native language, American Sign Language (ASL). Real-tim...
Neva Cherniavsky, Anna Cavender, Richard E. Ladner...
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
ICPR
2000
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
Video-Based Continuous Sign Language Recognition Using Statistical Methods
This paper is concerned with a development of a videobased recognition system of continuous sign language. The system aimsfor an automatic signer dependent recognition of sign lan...
Britta Bauer, Hermann Hienz, Karl-Friedrich Kraiss
IBPRIA
2009
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Smoothed Disparity Maps for Continuous American Sign Language Recognition
For the recognition of continuous sign language we analyse whether we can improve the results by explicitly incorporating depth information. Accurate hand tracking for sign languag...
Philippe Dreuw, Pascal Steingrube, Thomas Deselaer...
FGR
2002
IEEE
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An Approach Based on Phonemes to Large Vocabulary Chinese Sign Language Recognition
Hitherto, the major challenge to sign language recognition is how to develop approaches that scale well with increasing vocabulary size. In this paper we present an approach to la...
Chunli Wang, Shiguang Shan, Wen Gao
IV
2003
IEEE
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Requirements of Deaf User of Information Visualization An Interdisciplinary Approach
In literature exist many links to translation of speech into sign language and links to gesturing with avatars. But the author cannot get any link to a visualization of background...
Dirk Burmeister
SBIA
2004
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
An Experiment on Handshape Sign Recognition Using Adaptive Technology: Preliminary Results
This paper presents an overview of current work on the recognition of sign language and a prototype of a simple editor for a small subset of the Brazilian Sign Language, LIBRAS. Ha...
Hemerson Pistori, João José Neto
PCM
2004
Springer
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Vision-Based Sign Language Recognition Using Sign-Wise Tied Mixture HMM
Abstract. In this paper, a new sign-wise tied mixture HMM (SWTMHMM) is proposed and applied in vision-based sign language recognition (SLR). In the SWTMHMM, the mixture densities o...
Liangguo Zhang, Gaolin Fang, Wen Gao, Xilin Chen, ...