NDLI: Facial movement analysis in ASL

Content Provider	Springer Nature Link
Author	Vogler, Christian Goldenstein, Siome
Copyright Year	2007
Abstract	In the age of speech and voice recognition technologies, sign language recognition is an essential part of ensuring equal access for deaf people. To date, sign language recognition research has mostly ignored facial expressions that arise as part of a natural sign language discourse, even though they carry important grammatical and prosodic information. One reason is that tracking the motion and dynamics of expressions in human faces from video is a hard task, especially with the high number of occlusions from the signers’ hands. This paper presents a 3D deformable model tracking system to address this problem, and applies it to sequences of native signers, taken from the National Center of Sign Language and Gesture Resources (NCSLGR), with a special emphasis on outlier rejection methods to handle occlusions. The experiments conducted in this paper validate the output of the face tracker against expert human annotations of the NCSLGR corpus, demonstrate the promise of the proposed face tracking framework for sign language data, and reveal that the tracking framework picks up properties that ideally complement human annotations for linguistic research.
Starting Page	363
Ending Page	374
Page Count	12
File Format	PDF
ISSN	16155289
Journal	Universal Access in the Information Society
Volume Number	6
Issue Number	4
e-ISSN	16155297
Language	English
Publisher	Springer-Verlag
Publisher Date	2007-11-03
Publisher Place	Berlin, Heidelberg
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Business Information Systems Computers and Society Information Systems Applications (incl.Internet) Information Storage and Retrieval Computer Communication Networks User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Computer Networks and Communications Information Systems Human-Computer Interaction Software

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