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May 2, 2014 / Last updated : February 22, 2021 irfan Thesis

PhD Thesis by Zahoor Zafrulla “Automatic recognition of American Sign Language Classifiers”

Title: Automatic recognition of American Sign Language Classifiers Zahoor ZafrullaSchool of Interactive ComputingCollege of ComputingGeorgia Institute of Technologyhttp://www.cc.gatech.edu/grads/z/zahoor/ Committee: Dr. Thad Starner (Advisor, School of Interactive Computing, Georgia Tech) Dr. Irfan Essa (Co-Advisor, School of Interactive Computing, Georgia Tech) Dr. Jim Rehg (School of Interactive Computing, Georgia Tech) Dr. Harley Hamilton (School of Interactive Computing, […]
February 4, 2009 / Last updated : February 21, 2021 irfan ICASSP

Paper (2009): ICASSP “Learning Basic Units in American Sign Language using Discriminative Segmental Feature Selection”

Citation [bibtex key= 2009-Yin-LBUASLUDSFS] Abstract The natural language for most deaf signers in the United States is American Sign Language (ASL). ASL has internal structure like spoken languages, and ASL linguists have introduced several phonemic models. The study of ASL phonemes is not only interesting to linguists, but also useful for scalability in recognition by […]
December 14, 1996 / Last updated : January 5, 2020 irfan Activity Recognition

Paper: IEEE PAMI (1996) "Task-specific gesture analysis in real-time using interpolated views"

Darrell, T.J.; Essa, I.A.; Pentland, A.P., “Task-specific gesture analysis in real-time using interpolated views” Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence , vol.18, no.12, pp.1236-1242, Dec 1996 URL: [ieeexplore.ieee.org] [DOI] Abstract Hand and face gestures are modeled using an appearance-based approach in which patterns are represented as a vector of similarity scores to a set […]
August 25, 1996 / Last updated : August 25, 1996 irfan Face and Gesture

Paper: ICPR (1996): "Motion regularization for model-based head tracking"

S. Basu, I. Essa, A. Pentland (1996) “Motion regularization for model-based head tracking.” In Proceedings of  Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, 1996., 25-29 Aug 1996 Volume: 3, page(s): 611-616. [ DOI | PDF] Abstract This paper describes a method for the robust tracking of rigid head motion from video. This method […]
April 9, 1996 / Last updated : March 20, 2023 irfan Computer Vision

Scientific American Article (1996): “Smart Rooms” by Alex Pentland

An article by my Ph.D. Advisor, Alex (Sandy) Pentland describing the Smart Rooms project (also sometimes called the “Looking at People” project, at the MIT Media Laboratory from the early 1990s, in the Scientific American Magazine. My work as a Ph.D. student (1990-1994) and as Research Scientist (1994-1996) was featured in this article. Alex Pentland […]