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<p>Thanks Val for sharing.</p>
<p>See here to try it out.<br>
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<p><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://mediapipe.dev/demo/holistic_remote/">https://mediapipe.dev/demo/holistic_remote/</a></p>
<p>Jonathan<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 12/3/2021 1:27 PM, Valerie Sutton
wrote:<br>
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SignWriting List
<div class="">December 3, 2021</div>
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<div class="">Dear SW List Members:</div>
<div class="">This message was just sent to me from the Sign
Language Linguists List (SLLING-L). Very interesting message
about Machine learning, and sign languages.</div>
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<div class="">Val ;-)</div>
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style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue,
Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"
class=""><b class="">From: </b></span><span
style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue,
Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">Mark Mandel <<a
href="mailto:markamandel@GMAIL.COM"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext" moz-do-not-send="true">markamandel@GMAIL.COM</a>><br
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style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue,
Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"
class=""><b class="">Subject: </b></span><span
style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue,
Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><b class="">AI +
machine learning to teach SLs on the web</b><br
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style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue,
Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"
class=""><b class="">Date: </b></span><span
style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue,
Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">December 3, 2021 at
6:05:08 AM PST<br class="">
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style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue,
Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"
class=""><b class="">To: </b></span><span
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Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><a
href="mailto:SLLING-L@LISTSERV.VALENCIACOLLEGE.EDU"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext" moz-do-not-send="true">SLLING-L@LISTSERV.VALENCIACOLLEGE.EDU</a><br
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margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span
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class=""><b class="">Reply-To: </b></span><span
style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue,
Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">linguists interested in
signed languages <<a
href="mailto:SLLING-L@LISTSERV.VALENCIACOLLEGE.EDU"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext" moz-do-not-send="true">SLLING-L@LISTSERV.VALENCIACOLLEGE.EDU</a>><br
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<div dir="auto" class=""><b class="">Machine learning to
make sign language more accessible</b></div>
<div dir="auto" class=""><<a
href="https://blog.google/outreach-initiatives/accessibility/ml-making-sign-language-more-accessible/amp/"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext" moz-do-not-send="true">https://blog.google/outreach-initiatives/accessibility/ml-making-sign-language-more-accessible/amp/</a>></div>
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<div class=""><i class="">Kemal El Moujahid</i></div>
<div class=""><i class=""> Director, Product
Management </i></div>
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<i class=""> Published Dec 01, 2021</i> </div>
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<div dir="auto" class="">Google has spent over twenty
years helping to make information accessible and
useful in more than 150 languages. And our work is
definitely not done, because the internet changes so
quickly. About 15% of searches we see are entirely new
every day. And when it comes to other types of
information beyond words, in many ways, technology
hasn’t even begun to scratch the surface of what’s
possible. Take one example: sign language.</div>
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<div dir="auto" class="">The task is daunting. There are
as many sign languages as there are spoken languages
around the world. That’s why, when we began exploring
how we could better support sign language, we started
small by researching and experimenting with what
machine learning models could recognize. We spoke with
members of the Deaf community, as well as linguistic
experts, working closely with our partners at The
Nippon Foundation, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
and Kwansei Gakuin University. We began combining
several ML models to recognize sign language as a sum
of its parts — going beyond just hands to include body
gestures and facial expressions.</div>
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<div dir="auto" class="">Advances in AI and ML now allow
us to reliably detect hands, body poses and facial
expressions using any camera inside a laptop or mobile
phone. SignTown uses the <a
href="https://google.github.io/mediapipe/solutions/holistic"
class="" moz-do-not-send="true">MediaPipe Holistic
model</a> to identify keypoints from raw video
frames, which we then feed into a classifier model to
determine which sign is the closest match. This all
runs inside of the user's browser, powered by <a
href="https://www.tensorflow.org/js" class=""
moz-do-not-send="true">Tensorflow.js</a>.<b class=""><br
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<div dir="auto" class=""><i class="">Click link for full
article</i></div>
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</i></div>
<div dir="auto" class="">Mark Mandel</div>
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