The Myth of Signing Avatars

no code implementations • MTSummit 2021 • John C. McDonald, Rosalee Wolfe, Eleni Efthimiou, Evita Fontinea, Frankie Picron, Davy Van Landuyt, Tina Sioen, Annelies Braffort, Michael Filhol, Sarah Ebling, Thomas Hanke, Verena Krausneker

Development of automatic translation between signed and spoken languages has lagged behind the development of automatic translation between spoken languages, but it is a common misperception that extending machine translation techniques to include signed languages should be a straightforward process.

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A survey of Shading Techniques for Facial Deformations on Sign Language Avatars

no code implementations • LREC 2020 • Ronan Johnson, Rosalee Wolfe

Of the five phonemic parameters in sign language (handshape, location, palm orientation, movement and nonmanual expressions), the one that still poses the most challenges for effective avatar display is nonmanual signals.

Synthesizing the finger alphabet of Swiss German Sign Language and evaluating the comprehensibility of the resulting animations

no code implementations • WS 2015 • Sarah Ebling, Rosalee Wolfe, Jerry Schnepp, Souad Baowidan, John McDonald, Robyn Moncrief, S Sidler-Miserez, ra, Katja Tissi

Expanding n-gram analytics in ELAN and a case study for sign synthesis

no code implementations • LREC 2014 • Rosalee Wolfe, John McDonald, Larwan Berke, Marie Stumbo

Corpus analysis is a powerful tool for signed language synthesis.