no code implementations • SignLang (LREC) 2022 • Zhaoyang Xia, Yuxiao Chen, Qilong Zhangli, Matt Huenerfauth, Carol Neidle, Dimitri Metaxas
We modify a motion-based image animation model to generate high-resolution videos with the signer identity changed, but with the preservation of linguistically significant motions and facial expressions.
no code implementations • SignLang (LREC) 2022 • Saad Hassan, Matthew Seita, Larwan Berke, YingLi Tian, Elaine Gale, Sooyeon Lee, Matt Huenerfauth
We are releasing a dataset containing videos of both fluent and non-fluent signers using American Sign Language (ASL), which were collected using a Kinect v2 sensor.
no code implementations • LTEDI (ACL) 2022 • Akhter Al Amin, Saad Hassan, Cecilia O. Alm, Matt Huenerfauth
We make available a pairing of word embeddings and their human-annotated importance scores.
no code implementations • Findings (EMNLP) 2021 • Saad Hassan, Matt Huenerfauth, Cecilia Ovesdotter Alm
Much of the world's population experiences some form of disability during their lifetime.
no code implementations • LREC 2020 • Saad Hassan, Larwan Berke, Elahe Vahdani, Longlong Jing, YingLi Tian, Matt Huenerfauth
We have collected a new dataset consisting of color and depth videos of fluent American Sign Language (ASL) signers performing sequences of 100 ASL signs from a Kinect v2 sensor.
no code implementations • 1 May 2020 • Elahe Vahdani, Longlong Jing, YingLi Tian, Matt Huenerfauth
Our system is able to recognize grammatical elements on ASL-HW-RGBD from manual gestures, facial expressions, and head movements and successfully detect 8 ASL grammatical mistakes.
1 code implementation • 22 Aug 2019 • Danielle Bragg, Oscar Koller, Mary Bellard, Larwan Berke, Patrick Boudrealt, Annelies Braffort, Naomi Caselli, Matt Huenerfauth, Hernisa Kacorri, Tessa Verhoef, Christian Vogler, Meredith Ringel Morris
Developing successful sign language recognition, generation, and translation systems requires expertise in a wide range of fields, including computer vision, computer graphics, natural language processing, human-computer interaction, linguistics, and Deaf culture.
Cultural Vocal Bursts Intensity Prediction Sign Language Recognition +1
no code implementations • 7 Jun 2019 • Longlong Jing, Elahe Vahdani, Matt Huenerfauth, YingLi Tian
In this paper, we propose a 3D Convolutional Neural Network (3DCNN) based multi-stream framework to recognize American Sign Language (ASL) manual signs (consisting of movements of the hands, as well as non-manual face movements in some cases) in real-time from RGB-D videos, by fusing multimodality features including hand gestures, facial expressions, and body poses from multi-channels (RGB, depth, motion, and skeleton joints).
no code implementations • WS 2019 • Sushant Kafle, Cecilia O. Alm, Matt Huenerfauth
Word error rate, a traditional metric for evaluating automatic speech recognition, fails to capture that some words are more important for a system to transcribe correctly than others.
Automatic Speech Recognition Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) +1
no code implementations • LREC 2018 • Sushant Kafle, Matt Huenerfauth
Motivated by a project to create a system for people who are deaf or hard-of-hearing that would use automatic speech recognition (ASR) to produce real-time text captions of spoken English during in-person meetings with hearing individuals, we have augmented a transcript of the Switchboard conversational dialogue corpus with an overlay of word-importance annotations, with a numeric score for each word, to indicate its importance to the meaning of each dialogue turn.
Automatic Speech Recognition Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) +1