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From: Fran.O'Gorman@f94.n272.z1.fidonet.org (Fran O'Gorman)
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Subject: Re: Sign Language Recognition
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Date: 17 Jun 91 15:30:48 GMT
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[This is from the Silent Talk Conference]

 WR> From: peters@ee.udel.edu (Shirley Peters)
 WR> Subject: Sign Language Recognition
 WR> I'm looking for references and names of research done in the area
 WR> of Sign language recognition.  This could be hand shape
 WR> recognition using a glove sensing device, or video image
 WR> recognition, or anything else that will ultimately end up dealing
 WR> with sign language.

Shirley, I believe you already know about my Sign Friends-- don't
know if you've had a chance to see it though.  Of course it's only
a straight tutorial and has nothing to do with actuation via the
handshape of the user --in fact it has no way of knowing how the
user is doing his/her sign at all.  I imagine the recognition you
mean is the computer's or program's ability to do that, rather
than the user's, which is more what Sign Friends is about.

I should tell you, that since we last communicated, there are a
couple of people here on this echo who are working on a version of
Sign Friends that will use 3-D images in the case of one, and
perhaps video (real people) images in the other.  Also there's a
third person who's working on an Apple version of it --pretty
wild, huh?

Anyway good luck with your project--let us know how you progress!

--Fran

PS Something to consider --facial expression and body language--
might be hard to incorporate-- but then my little man lacks that
too... guess a computer is no substitute for the real
flesh-and-blood thing...:-)  Those video images Caren Park was
going to do might have a little more of that, though...

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