Sign Language
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

A unified framework for gesture recognition and spatiotemporal gesture segmentation.

30 Aug 2009 Within the context of hand gesture recognition, spatiotemporal gesture segmentation is the task of determining, in a video sequence, where the gesturing hand is located and when the gesture starts and ends. Existing gesture recognition methods ... Read more...

Sign language in Landau-Kleffner syndrome.

30 Jul 2009 This article reviews the history of sign language (SL) and the rationale for its use in children with profound auditory agnosia due to Landau-Kleffner syndrome (LKS), illustrated by studies of children and adults followed for many years and rare ... Read more...

Sign language spotting with a threshold model based on conditional random fields.

29 Jun 2009 Sign language spotting is the task of detecting and recognizing signs in a signed utterance, in a set vocabulary. The difficulty of sign language spotting is that instances of signs vary in both motion and appearance. Moreover, signs appear within a ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Sign Language'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• A unified framework for gesture recognition and spatiotemporal gesture segmentation. 30 Aug 2009
• Sign language in Landau-Kleffner syndrome. 30 Jul 2009
• Deafness and pregnancy. 29 Jun 2009
• Sign language spotting with a threshold model based on conditional random fields. 29 Jun 2009
• Structural priming of adjective-noun structures in hearing and deaf children. Jun 2009
• Bimodal bilinguals reveal the source of tip-of-the-tongue states. 25 May 2009
• Is visual selective attention in deaf individuals enhanced or deficient? The case of the useful field of view. 18 May 2009
• Muscle synergies as a predictive framework for the EMG patterns of new hand postures. 10 May 2009
• Brain systems mediating semantic and syntactic processing in deaf native signers: biological invariance and modality specificity. 9 May 2009
• Distinguishing the processing of gestures from signs in deaf individuals: an fMRI study. May 2009
• Championing the needs of deaf parents. 29 Apr 2009
• Adapting health education material for deaf audiences. 29 Apr 2009
• Health-related vocabulary knowledge among deaf adults. 29 Apr 2009
• Evolving the language-ready brain and the social mechanisms that support language. 15 Apr 2009
• Chinese deaf adolescents' free recall of taxonomic, slot-filler, and thematic categories. 12 Apr 2009
• Predicting academic success among deaf college students. 6 Apr 2009
• Validation of an Australian sign language instrument of outcome measurement for adults in mental health settings. 30 Mar 2009
• Making sense of nonsense in British Sign Language (BSL): The contribution of different phonological parameters to sign recognition. 30 Mar 2009
• Long-term use of cochlear implant systems in paediatric recipients and factors contributing to non-use. 27 Feb 2009
• Speech acquisition in older nonverbal individuals with autism: a review of features, methods, and prognosis. 27 Feb 2009

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Technical information about 'Sign Language'

Definition: A system of hand gestures used for communication by the deaf or by people speaking different languages.

Descriptor UI: D012813

Alternative terms: Sign Language; Language, Sign; Languages, Sign; Sign Languages;

Tree Number: E02.831.671.609.668; F01.145.209.530.702.668; L01.143.649.526.668;

Online Note: use MANUAL COMMUNICATION to search SIGN LANGUAGE 1974

History Note: 91(75)63-65; was see under MANUAL COMMUNICATION 1974-90; was heading 1963-65

Technical Notes: no qualif