CSE 6369 - Sign Language Recognition
Reading Material

• Detection and Tracking of Humans
  • (assigned to Rommel) P. Buehler, M. Everingham, D. P. Huttenlocher, A. Zisserman. Long Term Arm and Hand Tracking for Continuous Sign Language TV Broadcasts . In British Machine Vision Conference, 2008.
  • (assigned to Zhong) V. Ferrari, M. Marin-Jimenez, and A. Zisserman. Progressive search space reduction for human pose estimation . In IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2008.
  • P. Viola, M. Jones, and D. Snow. Detecting pedestrians using patterns of motion and appearance . In International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), volume 2, pages 734-741, 2003.
  • M. W. Lee and R. Nevatia. Human pose tracking in monocular sequence using multilevel structured models . IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI), 31(1):27-38, 2009.
  • (assigned to Zhong) L. Sigal, S. Bhatia, S. Roth, M. J. Black, and M. Isard. Tracking loose-limbed people . In IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), pages 421-428, 2004.
  • J. Wang, V. Athitsos, S. Sclaroff, and M. Betke. Detecting objects of variable shape structure with Hidden State Shape Models . IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI), 30(3):477-492, 2008.
• Gesture Recognition
  • J. Alon, V. Athitsos, Q. Yuan, and S. Sclaroff. A unified framework for gesture recognition and spatiotemporal gesture segmentation . IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI), 31(9):1685-1699, 2009.
  • A.F. Bobick and J.W. Davis. The recognition of human movement using temporal templates . IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI), 23(3):257-267, 2001.
  • (assigned to Weihua) L. Gorelick, M. Blank, E. Shechtman, M. Irani, and R. Basri. Actions as space-time shapes . IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, vol. 29, no. 12, pp. 2247-2253, 2007.
  • Y. Ke, R. Sukthankar, and M. Hebert. Efficient visual event detection using volumetric features . In IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), vol. 1, 2005, pp. 166-173.
  • Sushmita Mitra and Tinku Acharya. Gesture Recognition: A Survey . IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part C: Applications and Reviews, vol.37, no.3, pp.311-324, May 2007.
• Sign Language Recognition
  • H. Cooper and R. Bowden. Learning signs from subtitles: A weakly supervised approach to sign language recognition . In IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR). (2009) 2568-2574.
  • S. Nayak, S. Sarkar, and B. Loeding. Automated Extraction of Signs from Continuous Sign Language Sentences using Iterated Conditional Modes . IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), pp. 2583-2590, June 2009.
  • Sylvie C.W. Ong and Surendra Ranganath. Automatic Sign Language Analysis: A Survey and the Future beyond Lexical Meaning . IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI), vol. 27, no. 6, June 2005
  • (assigned to Alexis) T. Starner and A. Pentland. Real-time American Sign Language recognition using desk and wearable computer based video . IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence 20 (1998) 1371-1375.
  • C. Vogler and D.N. Metaxas. Parallel Hidden Markov Models for American Sign Language recognition . In IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV). (1999) 116-122.
  • (assigned to Chris) H. Wang, A. Stefan, S. Moradi, V. Athitsos, C. Neidle, and F. Kamangar. A system for large vocabulary sign search . In Workshop on Sign, Gesture and Activity (SGA), 2010.
  • M. Zahedi, P. Dreuw, D. Rybach, T. Deselaers, and H. Ney. Geometric Features for Improving Continuous Appearance-based Sign Language Recognition . In British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC), volume 3, pages 1019-1028, 2006.
• Theoretical Methods
  • (assigned to Soheil) A. Blake and M. Isard. The CONDENSATION algorithm - conditional density propagation for visual tracking . International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV), 29(1), pages 5-28, 1998.
  • (assigned to Pat) G.R. Hjaltason and H. Samet. Properties of embedding methods for similarity searching in metric spaces . IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 25(5):530-549, 2003.
  • Kevin Murphy. Dynamic Bayesian Networks: Representation, Inference and Learning . Ph.D. Thesis, UC Berkeley, 2002.
  • A. Quattoni, S. Wang, L.-P. Morency, M. Collins, and T. Darrell. Hidden conditional random fields . IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, vol. 29, no. 10, pp. 1848-1852, 2007.
  • Lawrence R. Rabiner. A tutorial on hidden markov models and selected applications in speech recognition . Proceedings of the IEEE, 1989, pages 257-286.
  • P. Viola and M. Jones. Rapid object detection using a boosted cascade of simple features . In IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), volume 1, pages 511-518, 2001.
  • Greg Welch and Gary Bishop. An Introduction to the Kalman Filter . University of North Carolina Technical Report TR 95-041, 1995.