MobileASL, a software program enabling sign-language video on mobile devices over conventional U.S. cellular networks, was evaluated in a three-week field study during the summer ...
Joy Kim, Jessica J. Tran, Tressa W. Johnson, Richa...
MobileASL is a video compression project for two-way, real-time video communication on cell phones, allowing Deaf people to communicate in the language most accessible to them, Am...
Jessica J. Tran, Tressa W. Johnson, Joy Kim, Rafae...
In this paper, we describe an application that helps hearing-impaired students learn to read and form words by translating speech into video clips of American Sign Language (ASL)....
While strings and syntax trees are used by the Natural Language Processing community to represent the structure of spoken languages, these encodings are difficult to adapt to a si...
Using results in the psycholinguistics literature on the speed and timing of American Sign Language (ASL), we built algorithms to calculate the time-duration of signs and the loca...
This paper discusses a novel approach for capturing and translating isolated gestures of American Sign Language into spoken and written words. The instrumented part of the system ...
Jose L. Hernandez-Rebollar, Nicholas Kyriakopoulos...
We discuss important factors in the design of evaluation studies for systems that generate animations of American Sign Language (ASL) sentences. In particular, we outline how some...
Matt Huenerfauth, Liming Zhao, Erdan Gu, Jan M. Al...
Abstract. We propose a new principle for recognizing fingerspelling sequences from American Sign Language (ASL). Instead of training a system to recognize the static posture for ea...
This paper describes progress toward a prototype implementation of a tool which aims to improve literacy in deaf high school and college students who are native (or near native) s...
Lisa N. Michaud, Kathleen F. McCoy, Christopher A....
In this paper, we present how appearance-based features can be used for the recognition of words in American sign language (ASL) from a video stream. The features are extracted wit...