Quantitative survey of the state of the art in sign language recognition

O Koller - arXiv preprint arXiv:2008.09918, 2020 - arxiv.org
This work presents a meta study covering around 300 published sign language recognition
papers with over 400 experimental results. It includes most papers between the start of the …

Feature extraction in Brazilian Sign Language Recognition based on phonological structure and using RGB-D sensors

SGM Almeida, FG Guimarães, JA Ramírez - Expert Systems with …, 2014 - Elsevier
In contrast to speech recognition, whose speech features have been extensively explored in
the research literature, feature extraction in Sign Language Recognition (SLR) is still a very …

Sign language recognition

H Cooper, B Holt, R Bowden - Visual Analysis of Humans: Looking at …, 2011 - Springer
This chapter covers the key aspects of sign-language recognition (SLR), starting with a brief
introduction to the motivations and requirements, followed by a précis of sign linguistics and …

[PDF][PDF] Multi-layered gesture recognition with Kinect.

F Jiang, S Zhang, S Wu, Y Gao, D Zhao - J. Mach. Learn. Res., 2015 - jmlr.org
This paper proposes a novel multi-layered gesture recognition method with Kinect. We
explore the essential linguistic characters of gestures: the components concurrent character …

Large lexicon detection of sign language

H Cooper, R Bowden - … Interaction: IEEE International Workshop, HCI 2007 …, 2007 - Springer
This paper presents an approach to large lexicon sign recognition that does not require
tracking. This overcomes the issues of how to accurately track the hands through self …

Combination of tangent distance and an image distortion model for appearance-based sign language recognition

M Zahedi, D Keysers, T Deselaers, H Ney - Pattern Recognition: 27th …, 2005 - Springer
In this paper, we employ a zero-order local deformation model to model the visual variability
of video streams of American sign language (ASL) words. We discuss two possible ways of …

Enhanced continuous sign language recognition using PCA and neural network features

YL Gweth, C Plahl, H Ney - 2012 IEEE Computer Society …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this work a Gaussian Hidden Markov Model (GHMM) based automatic sign language
recognition system is built on the SIGNUM database. The system is trained on appearance …

Non-manual cues in automatic sign language recognition

G Caridakis, S Asteriadis, K Karpouzis - Proceedings of the 4th …, 2011 - dl.acm.org
Present work deals with the incorporation of non-manual cues in automatic sign language
recognition. More specifically eye gaze, head pose and facial expressions are discussed in …

BoMW: Bag of manifold words for one-shot learning gesture recognition from kinect

L Zhang, S Zhang, F Jiang, Y Qi… - … on Circuits and …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we study one-shot learning gesture recognition on RGB-D data recorded from
Microsoft's Kinect. To this end, we propose a novel bag of manifold words (BoMW)-based …

New shared & interconnected asl resources: Signstream® 3 software; dai 2 for web access to linguistically annotated video corpora; and a sign bank

C Neidle, A Opoku, G Dimitriadis… - 8th Workshop on the …, 2018 - par.nsf.gov
2017 marked the release of a new version of SignStream® software, designed to facilitate
linguistic analysis of ASL video. SignStream® provides an intuitive interface for labeling and …