Spoken language processing techniques for sign language recognition and translation.

We present an approach to automatically recognize sign language and translate it into a spoken language. A system to address these tasks is created based on state-of-the-art techniques from statistical machine translation, speech recognition, and image processing research. Such a system is necessary...

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Publicado en:Technology & Disability Vol. 20; no. 2; pp. 121 - 134
Autores principales: Dreuw P, Stein D, Deselaers T, Rybach D, Zahedi M, Bungeroth J, Ney H
Formato: equations & formulas pictorial research tables/charts Journal Article
Publicado: Sage Publications Inc. 2008
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          Stein D
          Deselaers T
          Rybach D
          Zahedi M
          Bungeroth J
          Ney H
        affil: Human Language Technology and Pattern Recognition, Computer Science Department, Aachen University, Germany
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          Communication
          Computers and Computerization
          Deafness
          Sign Language
          Benchmarking
          Evaluation Research
          Models, Theoretical
          Speech Perception
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      ab: We present an approach to automatically recognize sign language and translate it into a spoken language. A system to address these tasks is created based on state-of-the-art techniques from statistical machine translation, speech recognition, and image processing research. Such a system is necessary for communication between deaf and hearing people. The communication is otherwise nearly impossible due to missing sign language skills on the hearing side, and the low reading and writing skills on the deaf side. As opposed to most current approaches, which focus on the recognition of isolated signs only, we present a system that recognizes complete sentences in sign language. Similar to speech recognition, we have to deal with temporal sequences. Instead of the acoustic signal in speech recognition, we process a video signal as input. Therefore, we use a speech recognition system to obtain a textual representation of the signed sentences. This intermediate representation is then fed into a statistical machine translation system to create a translation into a spoken language. To achieve good results, some particularities of sign languages are considered in both systems. We use a publicly available corpus to show the performance of the proposed system and report very promising results.
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