re signing avatars

[Dan Parvaz]

I'll go dig that up, but in the meantime, what does "somewhat promising"
mean? Nearly all the recognition material I've seen so far has been on the
order of < 100 isolated signs (often less than half that), and so far has
been resistant to scaling.

Cheers,

-Dan.

On 9/18/07, Sara Morrissey <sara.morrissey2 at mail.dcu.ie> wrote:
>
> >we still don't have the basic necessary and sufficient conditions for
> sign recognition (à la the Haskins and Bell Labs research in the 1940s and
> 1950s).
>
> For anyone who's interested, Philippe Dreuw at RWTH Aachen University,
> Aachen, Germany, is working on gesture recognition and I have done some
> collaborative work with him for translating in the direction of SLs
> (American and Irish) to Engllish. The results from the ASL data so far have
> been somewhat promising, although of course there is still a lot of progress
> for it to be made usable in the mainstream. Machine translation is my area,
> not recognition, so I'm not in a position to describe this much further but
> you can find some more information in the paper "Hand in Hand: Automatic
> Sign Language to English Translation" in the Proceedings of Theoretical and
> Methodological Issues in Machine Translation (TMI-07).
>
> Sara
>
> On 17/09/2007, Fischer Susan <susan.fischer at rit.edu> wrote:
>
> >  There's a group at NTT (the national phone and post office!)in Japan
> > working on "translating" in both directions between spoken or written
> > Japanese and what they are calling Japanese sign Language.  It's really more
> > transliterating to or from signed Japanese.  When I observed a demonstration
> > a few years ago, the generation of the signing avatar was pretty impressive;
> > recognition was not, and it's a much more difficult task, not only because
> > of the corpus problem but because we still don't have the basic necessary
> > and sufficient conditions for sign recognition (à la the Haskins and Bell
> > Labs research in the 1940s and 1950s).  I think some patience is in order;
> > it took about 50 years from the time speech recognition was envisaged until
> > the time it was accurate enough to be practically useful ( e.g., Dragon
> > Naturally Speaking).  Computer scientists often drastically underestimate
> > the difficulty of determining constancy in the signal.
> >
> >
> > Susan Fischer
> > Susan.Fischer at rit.edu
> >
> >
> > Center for Research on Language
> > UCSD
> >
> >
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