TOWARD AN ANNOTATION SOFTWARE FOR VIDEO OF SIGN LANGUAGE, INCLUDING IMAGE PROCESSING TOOLS AND SIGNING SPACE MODELLING

International audienceSeveral French national projects have been achieved last years, allowing linguist and computer scientists working on French Sign Language (FSL) to establish a permanent collaboration. During these projects, several video FSL corpora have been realised. One of the research orientations induced by these projects relates to multidisciplinary annotation. From the computer scientist s side, the aim is to develop an annotation software integrating different kind of tools based on image processing and 3d modelling that will be used to automatically annotate both lexical and syntactic information. This article presents several of these components. A first version of the annotation software integrating these components is under development

Toward an annotation software for video of Sign Language, including image processing tools and signing space modelling

Several French national projects have been achieved last years, allowing linguist and computer scientists working on French Sign Language (FSL) to establish a permanent collaboration. During these projects, several video FSL corpora have been realised. One of the research orientations induced by these projects relates to multi-disciplinary annotation. From the computer scientist s side, the aim is to develop an annotation software integrating different kind of tools based on image processing and 3d modelling that will be used to automatically annotate both lexical and syntactic information. This article presents several of these components. A first version of the annotation software integrating these components is under development. 1

Assistive technology for relieving communication lumber between hearing/speech impaired and hearing people

This study proposes an automatic sign language translator, which is developed as assistive technology to help the hearing/speech impaired communities to communicate with the rest of the world. The system architecture, which includes feature extraction and recognition stages is described in detail. The signs are classified into two types: static and dynamic. Various types of sign features are presented and analysed. Recognition stage considers the hidden Markov model and segmentation signature. Real-time implementation of the system with the use of Windows7 and LINUX Fedora 16 operating systems with VMware workstation is presented in detail. The system has been successfully tested on Malaysian sign language

New South Wales Rural Fire Service helicopter with the Rain Maker incendiary device mounted inside, Namadgi National Park, Australian Capital Territory, April 2013 /

Title devised from information supplied by photographer.; Part of the collection: ACT Parks and Conservation Service undertake a controlled burn in the Corin Dam area of Namadgi National Park, Australian Capital Territory, 5 April 2013.; "Photograph of the Rain Maker helicopter mounted incendiary device. The Rain Maker primes small incendiary pods that are then dropped above the fire ground."--Photographers notes.; Mode of access: Online.; Photographed by a staff member of the National Library of Australia