Rapid signer adaptation for continuous sign language recognition using a combined approach of eigenvoices, MLLR, and MAP

U Von Agris, C Blomer, KF Kraiss - 2008 19th International …, 2008 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Current sign language recognition systems are still designed for signer-dependent
operation only and thus suffer from the problem of interpersonal variability in production …

Rapid signer adaptation for isolated sign language recognition

U Von Agris, D Schneider, J Zieren… - 2006 Conference on …, 2006 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Research in the field of sign language recognition has not yet addressed the problem of
interpersonal variance in large vocabulary on the classification level. Current recognition …

Adaptive sign language recognition with Exemplar extraction and MAP/IVFS

Y Zhou, X Chen, D Zhao, H Yao… - IEEE signal processing …, 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Sign language recognition systems suffer from the problem of signer dependence. In this
letter, we propose a novel method that adapts the original model set to a specific signer with …

Unsupervised adaptive sign language recognition based on hypothesis comparison guided cross validation and linguistic prior filtering

Y Zhou, X Yang, Y Zhang, X Xu, Y Wang, X Chai, W Lin - Neurocomputing, 2015 - Elsevier
Signer adaptation is important for sign language recognition systems because a fixed
system cannot perform well on all kinds of signers. In supervised signer adaptation, the …

Visual modeling and feature adaptation in sign language recognition

P Dreuw, H Ney - ITG conference on voice communication [8 …, 2008 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We propose a tracking adaptation to recover from early tracking errors in sign language
recognition by optimizing the obtained tracking paths wrt the hypothesized word sequences …

The significance of facial features for automatic sign language recognition

U Von Agris, M Knorr, KF Kraiss - 2008 8th IEEE international …, 2008 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Although facial features are considered to be essential for humans to understand sign
language, no prior research work has yet examined their significance for automatic sign …

Signer-independent sign language recognition based on SOFM/HMM

G Fang, W Gao, J Ma - … , Analysis, and Tracking of Faces and …, 2001 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The aim of sign language recognition is to provide an efficient and accurate mechanism to
transcribe sign language into text or speech. State-of-the-art sign language recognition …

Expanding training set for chinese sign language recognition

C Wang, X Chen, W Gao - 7th International Conference on …, 2006 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
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 problem …

Improving signer-independence using pose estimation and transfer learning for sign language recognition

M Marais, D Brown, J Connan, A Boby - … Advanced Computing Conference, 2022 - Springer
Abstract Automated Sign Language Recognition (SLR) aims to bridge the communication
gap between the hearing and the hearing disabled. Computer vision and deep learning lie …

Semantics constrained dictionary learning for signer-independent sign language recognition

F Yin, X Chai, Y Zhou, X Chen - 2015 IEEE International …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, a sparse coding based framework is proposed for sign language recognition
(SLR), especially for the signer-independent case. To deal with the inter-signer variation, a …