• DocumentCode
    3003341
  • Title

    Description method of Japanese manual alphabet using image features

  • Author

    Ochiai, Katsuyuki ; Kamata, Kazuo

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Inf. Sci., Utsunomiya Univ., Japan
  • fYear
    1989
  • fDate
    14-17 Nov 1989
  • Firstpage
    1091
  • Abstract
    A description is given of a method for handshapes of the Japanese manual alphabet (JMA) based on their contour features. JMA has 46 patterns each of which represents a voiceless sound of the Japanese spoken language. Since 5 fingerspellings have motion, the authors adopt a set of 41 fingerspellings
  • Keywords
    character recognition; natural languages; Japanese manual alphabet; contour features; fingerspellings; image features; Classification tree analysis; Fingers; Handicapped aids; Image edge detection; Image processing; Image segmentation; Information science; Natural languages; Shape; Wrist;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Systems, Man and Cybernetics, 1989. Conference Proceedings., IEEE International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Cambridge, MA
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ICSMC.1989.71467
  • Filename
    71467