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Presentation 2008-06-19 10:00
Sign Language Recognition Based on Position and Movement Using Hidden Markov Model
Masaru Maebatake, Masafumi Nishida, Yasuo Horiuchi, Shingo Kuroiwa (Chiba Univ.) DE2008-2 PRMU2008-20
Abstract (in Japanese) (See Japanese page) 
(in English) In sign language, the meaning of a word varies with hand positions. Thus, we studied on word recognition method integrated the position and movement of hands. The hand position was normalized for each utterance.
We extracted the difference between frames as the movement from the position coordinate. The word recognition was performed using hidden Markov model based on these features. Furthermore, we assumed that the importance of the position and movement of hands changes with words and also performed the word recognition by the multi-stream HMM. As a result, recognition accuracy was 67.1 % by using only hand position and was 79.9 % by using both of the position and movement of hands. Moreover, we demonstrated that the importance of the movement was larger than the position by the multi-stream HMM.
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(in English) Sign Language / hand position / hand movement / hidden Markov model / multi-stream / / /  
Reference Info. IEICE Tech. Rep., vol. 108, no. 94, PRMU2008-20, pp. 7-12, June 2008.
Paper # PRMU2008-20 
Date of Issue 2008-06-12 (DE, PRMU) 
ISSN Print edition: ISSN 0913-5685    Online edition: ISSN 2432-6380
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Conference Information
Committee PRMU DE  
Conference Date 2008-06-19 - 2008-06-20 
Place (in Japanese) (See Japanese page) 
Place (in English) Otaru-Shimin-Kaikan 
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Registration To PRMU 
Conference Code 2008-06-PRMU-DE 
Language Japanese 
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Title (in English) Sign Language Recognition Based on Position and Movement Using Hidden Markov Model 
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Keyword(1) Sign Language  
Keyword(2) hand position  
Keyword(3) hand movement  
Keyword(4) hidden Markov model  
Keyword(5) multi-stream  
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1st Author's Name Masaru Maebatake  
1st Author's Affiliation Chiba University (Chiba Univ.)
2nd Author's Name Masafumi Nishida  
2nd Author's Affiliation Chiba University (Chiba Univ.)
3rd Author's Name Yasuo Horiuchi  
3rd Author's Affiliation Chiba University (Chiba Univ.)
4th Author's Name Shingo Kuroiwa  
4th Author's Affiliation Chiba University (Chiba Univ.)
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Date Time 2008-06-19 10:00:00 
Presentation Time 30 minutes 
Registration for PRMU 
Paper # DE2008-2, PRMU2008-20 
Volume (vol) vol.108 
Number (no) no.93(DE), no.94(PRMU) 
Page pp.7-12 
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Date of Issue 2008-06-12 (DE, PRMU) 


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