An Indian Sign Language (ISL) Corpus of the Domain Disaster Message - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

1 Ali Yavar Jung National Institute of 2 Center for Development of Advanced Hearing Handicapped (AYJNIHH), Computing (C-DAC), Mumbai, India Pune India An Indian Sign Language (ISL) Corpus of the Domain Disaster Message Using Avatar Mahesh Kulkarni 2 , P.J.Mathew Martin 1 , Swapnil Belhe 2 , Sunil Sahasrabudhe 1 , Sudesh Mudliar 2 3rd International Symposium on Sign Language Translation and Avatar Technology (SLTAT’13)

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CHALLENGES, TECHNOLOGY & SOLUTIONS COARTICULATION CONTIGUITY EMOTIONS  It may be defined as Manual and  It may be defined as ‘Manual and  It may be defined as facial non-manual features of ISL which non-manual’ features of ISL which expression concatenated with non- are used at the same time by the are used at the same time by the manual features of ISL which are signer, but are not part of a sign but signer, but are not always used at the same time by the signer, . always correlated. correlated.  Solution is identifying and recording  Solution is identifying and recording  Solution is identification of position of expression of various emotions for of areas of contiguity & creating a of co-articulation the purpose of translation by creating appropriate algorithm a appropriate algorithm