• DocumentCode
    2834241
  • Title

    Isolated sign language recognition using hidden Markov models

  • Author

    Grobel, Kirsti ; Assan, Marcell

  • Author_Institution
    Lehrstuhl fur Technische Inf., Tech. Hochschule Aachen, Germany
  • Volume
    1
  • fYear
    1997
  • fDate
    12-15 Oct 1997
  • Firstpage
    162
  • Abstract
    This paper is concerned with the video-based recognition of isolated signs. Concentrating on the manual parameters of sign language, the system aims for the signer dependent recognition of 262 different signs. For hidden Markov modelling a sign is considered a doubly stochastic process, represented by an unobservable state sequence. The observations emitted by the states are regarded as feature vectors, that are extracted from video frames. The system achieves recognition rates up to 94%
  • Keywords
    feature extraction; hidden Markov models; image recognition; image sequences; doubly stochastic process; feature vectors; hidden Markov models; isolated sign language recognition; signer dependent recognition; unobservable state sequence; video frames; video-based recognition; Arm; Cameras; Computer vision; Data gloves; Deafness; Handicapped aids; Hidden Markov models; Motion analysis; Speech; Stochastic processes;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, 1997. Computational Cybernetics and Simulation., 1997 IEEE International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Orlando, FL
  • ISSN
    1062-922X
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-4053-1
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ICSMC.1997.625742
  • Filename
    625742