Cued Speech Gesture Recognition: A First Prototype Based on Early Reduction
Cued Speech is a specific linguistic code for hearing-impaired people. It is based on both lip reading and manual gestures. In the context of THIMP (Telephony for the Hearing-IMpaired Project), we work on automatic cued speech translation. In this paper, we only address the problem of automatic cued...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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SpringerOpen
2008-01-01
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| Series: | EURASIP Journal on Image and Video Processing |
| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2007/73703 |
| Summary: | Cued Speech is a specific linguistic code for hearing-impaired people. It is based on both lip reading and manual gestures. In the context of THIMP (Telephony for the Hearing-IMpaired Project), we work on automatic cued speech translation. In this paper, we only address the problem of automatic cued speech manual gesture recognition. Such a gesture recognition issue is really common from a theoretical point of view, but we approach it with respect to its particularities in order to derive an original method. This method is essentially built around a bioinspired method called early reduction. Prior to a complete analysis of each image of a sequence, the early reduction process automatically extracts a restricted number of key images which summarize the whole sequence. Only the key images are studied from a temporal point of view with lighter computation than the complete sequence. |
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| ISSN: | 1687-5176 1687-5281 |