peters@ee.udel.edu (Shirley Peters) (06/02/91)
Index Number: 15933
I'm looking for references and names of research done in the area of
Sign language recognition. This could be hand shape recognition using a
glove sensing device, or video image recognition, or anything else that
will ultimately end up dealing with sign language.
(I already know about James Kramer's talking glove, and Sidney Fels'
Glove-talk.)
Thanx in advance,
Shirley
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+------------------------------------------------------------------------+Fran.O'Gorman@f94.n272.z1.fidonet.org (Fran O'Gorman) (06/17/91)
Index Number: 16061
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WR> From: peters@ee.udel.edu (Shirley Peters)
WR> Subject: Sign Language Recognition
WR> I'm looking for references and names of research done in the area
WR> of Sign language recognition. This could be hand shape
WR> recognition using a glove sensing device, or video image
WR> recognition, or anything else that will ultimately end up dealing
WR> with sign language.
Shirley, I believe you already know about my Sign Friends-- don't
know if you've had a chance to see it though. Of course it's only
a straight tutorial and has nothing to do with actuation via the
handshape of the user --in fact it has no way of knowing how the
user is doing his/her sign at all. I imagine the recognition you
mean is the computer's or program's ability to do that, rather
than the user's, which is more what Sign Friends is about.
I should tell you, that since we last communicated, there are a
couple of people here on this echo who are working on a version of
Sign Friends that will use 3-D images in the case of one, and
perhaps video (real people) images in the other. Also there's a
third person who's working on an Apple version of it --pretty
wild, huh?
Anyway good luck with your project--let us know how you progress!
--Fran
PS Something to consider --facial expression and body language--
might be hard to incorporate-- but then my little man lacks that
too... guess a computer is no substitute for the real
flesh-and-blood thing...:-) Those video images Caren Park was
going to do might have a little more of that, though...
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Internet: Fran.O'Gorman@f94.n272.z1.fidonet.orgJames.Womack@f14.n300.z1.fidonet.org (James Womack) (06/17/91)
Index Number: 16073
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I regret I cannot recall much about it, but there was an article i{n
Discover magazine a few years ago. Some institute was woking on a robotic
hand that could sign. Maybe checking with the magazine will result
in a copy of that article. The IBM Handicapped Center (in Georgia,
I think), might also have that information. __
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