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A Motion Capture System for Sign Language Synthesis: Overview and Related Issues

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Advances in Visual Computing (ISVC 2005)

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HANDY[1] is a project for the synthesis of articulatory sign-language as used by the deaf. This paper describes a sub-project named HANDYCap, which is used as a prior stage to the actual sign-language synthesis. HANDYCap is a low-cost hand-motion capture and data-processing system which we use to enable semi-automatic construction of the sign database. Additionally, the paper gives a broad survey of the technical and linguistic issues relating to the signing task. The optical tracking system used for motion-capture is described, together with related issues. In performing the database-construction task it is necessary to pay attention to the linguistic background, as well as to the problems of loading and storing the data efficiently and correctly.

This work is supported under contract no. TST-00014/2003 from the Hungarian Ministry of Education.

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  1. PannonVision, Csap utca 4., H-6727, Szeged, Hungary

    László Havasi

  2. National Association of the Deaf, Benczúr utca 21, H-1068, Budapest, Hungary

    Helga M. Szabó

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  1. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Nevada, Reno, USA

    George Bebis

  2. NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, USA

    Richard Boyle

  3. Desert Research Institute, Reno, NV, USA

    Darko Koracin

  4. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA

    Bahram Parvin

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Havasi, L., Szabó, H.M. (2005). A Motion Capture System for Sign Language Synthesis: Overview and Related Issues. In: Bebis, G., Boyle, R., Koracin, D., Parvin, B. (eds) Advances in Visual Computing. ISVC 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3804. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11595755_78

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