A Multi-modal Machine Learning Approach and Toolkit to Automate Recognition of Early Stages of Dementia among British Sign Language Users

no code implementations • 1 Oct 2020 • Xing Liang, Anastassia Angelopoulou, Epaminondas Kapetanios, Bencie Woll, Reda Al-Batat, Tyron Woolfe

In particular, screening for dementia in ageing Deaf signers of British Sign Language (BSL) poses additional challenges as the diagnostic process is bound up with conditions such as quality and availability of interpreters, as well as appropriate questionnaires and cognitive tests.

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Machine Learning for Enhancing Dementia Screening in Ageing Deaf Signers of British Sign Language

no code implementations • LREC 2020 • Xing Liang, Bencie Woll, Kapetanios Epaminondas, Anastasia Angelopoulou, Reda Al-Batat

The experiments show the effectiveness of our deep learning based approach in terms of sign space tracking, facial motion tracking and early stage dementia performance assessment tasks.

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