Lexicon-free fingerspelling recognition from video: Data, models, and signer adaptation

T Kim, J Keane, W Wang, H Tang, J Riggle… - Computer Speech & …, 2017 - Elsevier
We study the problem of recognizing video sequences of fingerspelled letters in American
Sign Language (ASL). Fingerspelling comprises a significant but relatively understudied part …

Fingerspelling recognition with semi-Markov conditional random fields

T Kim, G Shakhnarovich… - Proceedings of the IEEE …, 2013 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Recognition of gesture sequences is in general a very difficult problem, but in certain
domains the difficulty may be mitigated by exploiting the domain's" grammar". One such …

Sign Language technologies and resources of the Dicta-Sign project

E Efthimiou, SE Fotinea, T Hanke, J Glauert… - 5th Workshop on the …, 2012 - hal.science
Here we present the outcomes of Dicta-Sign FP7-ICT project. Dicta-Sign researched ways to
enable communication between Deaf individuals through the development of human …

Hand tracking and affine shape-appearance handshape sub-units in continuous sign language recognition

A Roussos, S Theodorakis, V Pitsikalis… - Trends and Topics in …, 2012 - Springer
We propose and investigate a framework that utilizes novel aspects concerning probabilistic
and morphological visual processing for the segmentation, tracking and handshape …

[PDF][PDF] Dynamic affine-invariant shape-appearance handshape features and classification in sign language videos

A Roussos, S Theodorakis, V Pitsikalis… - The Journal of Machine …, 2013 - jmlr.org
We propose the novel approach of dynamic affine-invariant shape-appearance model (Aff-
SAM) and employ it for handshape classification and sign recognition in sign language (SL) …

Recognitionwith raw canonical phonetic movement and handshape subunits on videos of continuous sign language

S Theodorakis, V Pitsikalis… - 2012 19th IEEE …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The visual processing of Sign Language (SL) videos offers multiple interdisciplinary
challenges for image processing and recognition. Based on tracking and visual feature …

American Sign Language fingerspelling recognition from video: Methods for unrestricted recognition and signer-independence

T Kim - arXiv preprint arXiv:1608.08339, 2016 - arxiv.org
In this thesis, we study the problem of recognizing video sequences of fingerspelled letters
in American Sign Language (ASL). Fingerspelling comprises a significant but relatively …

On a maximizing model of spherical Bezdek-type possibilistic c-means and fuzzy multi-medoids clustering

Y Kanzawa - 2014 IEEE International Conference on Granular …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this study, two clustering frameworks are proposed based on a maximizing model of
spherical Bezdek-type fuzzy clustering are proposed. One using possibilistic c-means, and …

Dynamic Affine-Invariant Shape-Appearance Handshape Features and Classification in Sign Language Videos

A Roussos, S Theodorakis, V Pitsikalis, P Maragos - Gesture Recognition, 2017 - Springer
We propose the novel approach of dynamic affine-invariant shape-appearance model (Aff-
SAM) and employ it for handshape classification and sign recognition in sign language (SL) …

[PDF][PDF] Towards gestural understanding for intelligent robots

JN Fritsch - 2012 - core.ac.uk
A strong driving force of scientific progress in the technical sciences is the quest for systems
that assist humans in their daily life and make their life easier and more enjoyable …