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From: tap@ai.toronto.edu (Tony Plate)
Subject: Re: Hand Shape recognition (Sign Language)
Message-ID: <91May30.122511edt.792@neuron.ai.toronto.edu>
Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto
References: <54953@nigel.ee.udel.edu>
Date: 30 May 91 16:25:27 GMT
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In article <54953@nigel.ee.udel.edu> peters@ee.udel.edu (Shirley Peters) writes:
>I'm looking for references and names of research done in the area of
>Sign language recognition.  This could be hand shape recognition using a
>glove sensing device, or video image recognition, or anything else that
>will ultimately end up dealing with sign language.
>

Sidney Fels here at the University of Toronto is working
on a system called "Glove-Talk", which uses a neural net
to recognize hand configurations and trajectories (with
a dataglove). The system generates speech as output.

Here's a reference:

@inproceedings  (fels-hinton-90,
key     =       "fels",
author  =       "Fels, S.~S. and Hinton, G.~E.",
title   =       "Building adaptive interfaces with neural networks: The
{G}love-{T}alk pilot study. ",
booktitle   =   "Proceedings of the IFIP TC 13 Third International Conference
on Human-Computer Interaction ",
publisher   =   "Elsevier",
address     =   "North Holland",
pages       =   "683-688",
year        =   "1990"
)

Tony Plate
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