AI technologies can play an important role in breaking down the communication barriers of
deaf or hearing-impaired people with other communities, contributing significantly to their …

Sign language is the fundamental communication language of deaf people. Efforts to
develop sign language generation systems can make the life of these people smooth and …

Sign languages are the native languages for many pre-lingually deaf people and must be
treated as genuine natural languages worthy of academic study in their own right. For such …

I want to thank my advisors Dr. Mitch Marcus and Dr. Martha Palmer for being so generous
with their time and advice during the past four years. I am grateful for the trust they placed in …

Written information is often of limited accessibility to deaf people who use sign language.
The eSign project was undertaken as a response to the need for technologies enabling …

The use of virtual humans (ie, avatars) holds the potential for interactive, automated
interaction in domains such as remote communication, customer service, or public …

In this article we present a multichannel animation system for producing utterances signed in
French Sign Language (LSF) by a virtual character. The main challenges of such a system …

Sign language production (SLP) is the process of generating sign language videos from
spoken language expressions. Since sign languages are highly under-resourced, existing …

Sign language is a visual gesture language. Deaf people use sign language as their main
source for communication. They use their hands, face and arms for conveying thoughts and …

Signing avatars are increasingly used as an interface for communication to the deaf
community. In recent years, an emerging approach uses captured data to edit and generate …