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[2012]	Helen Cooper, Eng-Jon Ong, Nicolas Pugeault, Richard Bowden, "Sign Language Recognition using Sub-Units", In Journal of Machine Learning Research, vol. 13, pp. 2205-2231, 2012. [bib] [pdf]
[2011]	Helen Cooper, Brian Holt, Richard Bowden, "Sign Language Recognition", Chapter in Visual Analysis of Humans: Looking at People, Springer, pp. 539 - 562, 2011. (pre-print) [bib] [pdf] [doi]

[2012]	Eng-Jon Ong, Helen Cooper, Nicolas Pugeault, Richard Bowden, "Sign Language Recognition using Sequential Pattern Trees", In Proceedings of the IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Providence, Rhode Island, USA, 2012. [bib] [pdf]
[2009]	Helen Cooper, Richard Bowden, "Sign Language Recognition: Working With Limited Corpora", In Proceedings of the International Conference on Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction. Addressing Diversity, vol. 1, San Diego, CA, USA, pp. 472 - 481, 2009. [bib] [pdf] [doi]
[2009]	Helen Cooper, Richard Bowden, "Learning Signs From Subtitles: A Weakly Supervised Approach To Sign Language Recognition", In Proceedings of the IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Miami, FL, USA, pp. 2568 - 2574, 2009. (New Scientist Article on this work.) [bib] [pdf] [doi]
[2007]	Helen Cooper, Richard Bowden, "Sign Language Recognition Using Boosted Volumetric Features", In Proceedings of the IAPR Conference on Machine Vision Applications, Tokyo, Japan, pp. 359 - 362, 2007. [bib] [pdf]

[2011]	Brian Holt, Eng-Jon Ong, Helen Cooper, Richard Bowden, "Putting the pieces together: Connected Poselets for Human Pose Estimation", In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision Workshop : Consumer Depth Cameras for Computer Vision, 2011. [bib] [pdf]
[2011]	Ralph Elliott, Helen Cooper, John Glauert, Richard Bowden, François Lefebvre-Albaret, "Search-By-Example in Multilingual Sign Language Databases", In Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Sign Language Translation and Avatar Technology (SLTAT), Dundee, Scotland, 2011. [bib] [pdf]
[2011]	Helen Cooper, Nicolas Pugeault, Richard Bowden, "Reading the Signs: A Video Based Sign Dictionary", In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision Workshop : ARTEMIS, Barcelona, Spain, 2011. [bib] [pdf]
[2010]	Helen Cooper, Richard Bowden, "Sign Language Recognition using Linguistically Derived Sub-Units", In Proceedings of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages : Corpora and Sign Languages Technologies, Valetta, Malta, 2010. (poster(pdf)) [bib] [pdf] [doi]
[2007]	Helen Cooper, Richard Bowden, "Large Lexicon Detection Of Sign Language", In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision Workshop : Human Computer Interaction, Rio de Janario, Brazil, pp. 88 - 97, 2007. [bib] [pdf] [doi]

[2011]	Helen Cooper, Eng-Jon Ong, Richard Bowden, "Give Me a Sign : A Person Independent Interactive Sign Dictionary", Technical report, FEPS, University of Surrey, no. VSSP-TR-1/2011, Guildford, UK, 2011. [bib] [pdf]
[2010]	Helen Cooper, "Sign Language Recognition : Generalising to More Complex Corpora", PhD thesis, Centre For Vision Speech and Signal Processing, University Of Surrey, 2010. [bib] [pdf]

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Learning Sign From Subtitles