• Pattern Recognition
• Human Language Technology
• Image Processing and Recognition

See the list of publications of the Chair here.

If you have reached this page, the following may be of interest to you:

• the current issues in Sign Language research for further information on this topic.

• the I6-BOSTON10 database, containing 110 utterances of 10 American sign language words.
• the I6-BOSTON50 database, containing 483 utterances of 50 American sign language words.
• the I6-BOSTON201 database, containing 201 American sign language sentenses.
• the i6-gesture database, a new database of fingerspelling letters of German Sign Language (Deutsche Gebärdensprache, DGS).

• the home page of my colleague Jan Bungeroth
• the home page of my colleague Thomas Deselaers
• the home page of my colleague Philippe Dreuw
• the home page of my former colleague Daniel Keysers

List of Publications (reverse chronological order)

2007

• Philippe Dreuw, David Rybach, Thomas Deselaers, Morteza Zahedi and Hermann Ney. Speech Recognition Techniques for a Sign Language Recognition System. In Interspeech/ICSLP 2007, accepted for publication,, Antwerp, Belgium, August 2007.

2006

• Morteza Zahedi, Philippe Dreuw, David Rybach, Thomas Deselaers and H. Ney. Using Geometric Features to Improve Continuous Appearance-based Sign Language Recognition. In BMVC 06, 17th British Maschine Vision Conference, volume 3, pages 1019-1028,, Edinburgh, UK, September 2006.

• M. Zahedi, P. Dreuw, D. Rybach, T. Deselaers, J. Bungeroth and H. Ney. Continuous Sign Language Recognition - Approaches from Speech Recognition and Available Data Resources. In LREC 06, Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages: lexicographic matters and didactic scenarios. pages 21-24., Genoa, Italy, May 2006.

• J. Bungeroth, D. Stein, P. Dreuw, M. Zahedi and H. Ney. A German Sign Language Corpus of the Domain Weather Report. In LREC 06, The fifth international conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, Genoa, Italy, May 2006.

2005

• M. Zahedi, D. Keysers, and H. Ney. Appearance-Based Recognition of Words in American Sign Language. In IbPRIA 2005, 2nd Iberian Conference on Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis, Estoril, Portugal, Volume LNCS 3522 of Lecture Notes in Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis, pages 511-519, June 2005.

• M. Zahedi, D. Keysers, and H. Ney. Pronunciation Clustering and Modeling of Variability for Appearance-Based Sign Language Recognition. In GW 2005, 6th International Workshop on Gesture in Human-Computer Interaction and Simulation, Vannes, France, , Volume LNAI 3881 of Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, pages 68-79, May 2005.

• M. Zahedi, D. Keysers, T. Deselaers, and H. Ney. Combination of Tangent Distance and an Image Distortion Model for Appearance-Based Sign Language Recognition. In DAGM 2005, 27th Annual meeting of the German Association for Pattern Recognition, Vienna, Austria, Volume LNCS 3663, pages 401-408, Augest/September 2005.

2004

• M. Zahedi, D. Keysers, and H. Ney. Appearance-Based Recognition of Signs in American Sign Language. Poster presentation at the 5th Sign Language Workshop of the RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany, October 29, 2004.

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