Visual Recognition of American Sign Language Using Hidden Markov Models

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  • Thad Starner
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Hidden Markov models (HMM's) have been used prominently and successfully in speech recognition and, more recently, in handwriting recognition. Consequently , they seem ideal for visual recognition of complex, structured hand gestures such as are found in sign language. We describe an HMM-based system for recognizing sentence level American Sign Language (ASL) which attains a word accuracy of 99.2% without explicitly modeling the ngers.

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تاریخ انتشار 1995