Conversational agents are supposed to combine speech with non‐verbal modalities for
intelligible multimodal utterances. In this paper, we focus on the generation of gesture and …

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 …

Signing avatars make it possible for deaf people to access information in their preferred
language. However, sign language synthesis represents a challenge for the computer …

Virtual humans are employed in many interactive applications using 3D virtual
environments, including (serious) games. The motion of such virtual humans should look …

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 …

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We describe a method for automatically synthesizing deaf signing animations from a high-
level description of signs in terms of the HamNoSys transcription system. Lifelike movement …

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 …

One of the most useful tools in human-computer interaction is the task model, a structured
decomposition of user actions toward a goal. Task models can predict average human …