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Towards an Intuitive Sign Language Animation Authoring Environment For the Deaf Alexis Heloir, Fabrizio Nunnari UVHC, LAMIH - Valenciennes, France DFKI-MMCI, SLSI group - Germany NLP: Parallel Corpora Aligned annotated videos Aligned Glosses


  1. Towards an Intuitive Sign Language Animation Authoring Environment For the Deaf Alexis Heloir, Fabrizio Nunnari UVHC, LAMIH - Valenciennes, France DFKI-MMCI, SLSI group - Germany

  2. NLP: Parallel Corpora Aligned annotated videos Aligned Glosses DictaSign Project (2009--2012) RWTH-Phoenix corpus (2010)

  3. NLP: Corpora Hand-crafting Motion capture CUNY SL Corpus (2012) ATLAS (2009-- 2011) SignCom System (2012)

  4. SL Corpora - Videos - Motion capture - Manual annotation - Hand-crafted animation

  5. Video + Easy to use and accessible + High fidelity - Low semantics

  6. Motion Capture + High fidelity + 3D plus numerical values - Still Low semantics - Cumbersome and expensive

  7. Hand-crafted animation + More intelligible animation + Theory independent motion abstraction - Expensive - Requires both expert interpreters and 3D animators

  8. Annotation + High semantic + Abstracted away - Requires expert annotators - Theory Dependent

  9. SL corpuses Abstraction Synthetic signs s n o i t (Sign Writing, HamNoSys) a t o n n A ??? Hand-crafted animation Motion Capture Videos Quantity of data

  10. SL corpuses Abstraction Synthetic signs s n o i t (Sign Writing, HamNoSys) a t o n n A Monitored handcrafted NEW! avatar animation Hand-crafted animation Motion Capture Videos Quantity of data

  11. Current SL production pipelines Mocap 3D operator operator Performance Sign animation mocap → Data Cleanup Capture Cleanup Hired Signary Performer / Interpreter Video hand-craft → Sign animation Capture 3D operator & Interpreter

  12. Production pipeline: to the user Mocap 3D operator operator Performance Sign animation mocap → Data Cleanup Capture Cleanup Signary Deaf user Video hand-craft → Sign animation Capture 3D operator & Interpreter

  13. Production pipeline: no complex 3D authoring Mocap 3D operator operator Performance Sign animation mocap → Data Cleanup Capture Cleanup Signary Deaf user hand-craft →

  14. Production pipeline: NUIs and no specialized operators Mocap 3D operator operator Performance Sign animation Data Cleanup Capture Cleanup Signary Deaf user NUI !!!

  15. Production pipeline: possibility to refine captured signs Performance Sign animation Data Cleanup Capture Cleanup Signary Deaf user

  16. New SL production pipelines Performance Data Cleanup Capture Signary Deaf user Manual Edit

  17. Production pipeline at work Video

  18. Future: Gathering users’ intention ● LIS relevant info ○ Contacts Manual Edit ○ Time alignments ○ Gesture amplification ○ ... Edit history Patterns extraction

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