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Pattern recognition and synthesis for sign language translation system

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Assets '94: Proceedings of the first annual ACM conference on Assistive technologies

Pages 1 - 8

https://doi.org/10.1145/191028.191030

Published: 31 October 1994 Publication History

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Sign language is one means of communication for hearing-impaired people. Words and sentences in sign language are mainly represented by hands' gestures. In this report, we show a sign language translation system which we are developing. The system translates Japanese sign language into Japanese and vice versa. In this system, hand shape and position data are inputted using DataGlove. Inputted hand motions are recognized and translated into Japanese sentences. Japanese text is translated into sign language represented as 3-D computer-graphic animation of sign language gestures.

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DOI:10.1145/191028

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Saksiri BFerrell WRuenwongsa P(2006)Virtual sign animated pedagogic agents to support computer education for deaf learnersACM SIGACCESS Accessibility and Computing10.1145/1196148.1196158(40-44)Online publication date: 1-Sep-2006
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1196148.1196158
Lu SIgi SMatsuo HNagashima Y(2006)Towards a dialogue system based on recognition and synthesis of Japanese sign languageGesture and Sign Language in Human-Computer Interaction10.1007/BFb0053005(259-271)Online publication date: 19-May-2006
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