Liwicki, S. and Everingham, M. (2009) Automatic recognition of fingerspelled words in British Sign Language. In: Proceedings of CVPR4HB'09. 2nd IEEE Workshop on CVPR for Human Communicative Behavior Analysis, Thursday June 25th, 2009, Miami, Florida. , pp. 50-57.
Abstract
We investigate the problem of recognizing words from video, fingerspelled using the British Sign Language (BSL) fingerspelling alphabet. This is a challenging task since the BSL alphabet involves both hands occluding each other, and contains signs which are ambiguous from the observer’s viewpoint. The main contributions of our work include: (i) recognition based on hand shape alone, not requiring motion cues; (ii) robust visual features for hand shape recognition; (iii) scalability to large lexicon recognition with no re-training. We report results on a dataset of 1,000 low quality webcam videos of 100 words. The proposed method achieves a word recognition accuracy of 98.9%.
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Item Type: | Proceedings Paper |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Engineering & Physical Sciences (Leeds) > School of Computing (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Miss Jamie Grant |
Date Deposited: | 07 Jul 2009 11:35 |
Last Modified: | 16 Sep 2016 13:47 |
Status: | Published |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:8903 |