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| Title: | Towards a One-Way American Sign Language Translator |
| Authors: | Brashear, Helene
Henderson, Valerie
Hernandez-Rebollar, Jose
McGuire, R. Martin
Ross, Danielle S.
Starner, Thad
Georgia Institute of Technology. Graphics, Visualization and Usability Center
George Washington University. School of Engineering and Applied Science
University of Rochester. Dept. of Brain & Cognitive Sciences |
| Subjects : | Formulaic language
One-way translator
Sign language recognition system
Speech recognition
Wearable computers |
| Issue Date: | May-2004 |
| Publisher: | Georgia Institute of Technology |
| Abstract: | Inspired by the Defense Advanced Research Projects
Agency's (DARPA) recent successes in speech recognition,
we introduce a new task for sign language recognition research:
a mobile one-way American Sign Language translator.
We argue that such a device should be feasible in the
next few years, may provide immediate practical benefits for
the Deaf community, and leads to a sustainable program of
research comparable to early speech recognition efforts. We
ground our efforts in a particular scenario, that of a Deaf
individual seeking an apartment and discuss the system requirements
and our interface for this scenario. Finally, we
describe initial recognition results of 94% accuracy on a
141 sign vocabulary signed in phrases of fours signs using
a one-handed glove-based system and hidden Markov models
(HMMs). |
| Description: | Presented at the 6th IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition, Seoul, Korea, May 2004.
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| Type: | Proceedings |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1853/28993 |
| Appears in Collections: | Contextual Computing Group Publications
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