Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Havasi, László
• Szabó, Helga M.
• Pala, Karel
• Sojka, Petr
• Kopeček, Ivan

Titel

HANDY: Sign Language Synthesis from Sublexical Elements Based on an XML Data Representation

Ist Teil von

• Lecture notes in computer science, 2004, p.73-80

Ort / Verlag

Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg

Erscheinungsjahr

2004

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• This paper deals with computer-human interfacing in the special context of sign language as used by deaf persons; it focuses on sign-language synthesis employing a uniform data representation model. The data is built up from the sublexical elements of sign language, since this is most natural from a linguistic point of view. It is also economical: using only four types of sublexical elements, many meaningful lexical items can be constructed. Two principal advantages of this synthesis approach are that the components of the database are language-independent, and that complex signs can be effectively described. Although we do not discuss the 3D engine in detail, in our implementation we have succeeded in our objective that the synthesis should be performed in real-time. Here we consider only problems associated with the visualization of hand and arm positions; the other parts of the body used for signing are the subject of future work.