Publications

Papers

Bowden R, Dreuw P, Maragos P, Piater J, Proceedings of the International Workshop on Sign, Gesture and Activity SGA2010. Compiled Volume Sept 2010.
Braffort A, Bolot L, Chételat-Pelé E, Choisier A, Delorme M, Filhol M, Segouat J, Verrecchia C, Badin F, Devos N, "Sign Language corpora for analysis, processing and evaluation", 7th international conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), May 19-21 2010. (view)
Braffort A, Filhol M, Segouat J, "Traitement automatique des langues des signes : le projet Dicta-Sign, des corpus aux applications", 17e conférence sur le Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles 2010 (TALN 2010), session demo, July 19-23, 2010 (view)
Braffort A, Sansonnet J-P, Martin J-C, Verrecchia C, "Diva, une architecture pour le support des agents gestuels interactifs sur Internet", Journal "Technique et Science Informatiques", special issue on "Agents Conversationnels Animés", 2010, 29/7, 777-806 (view)
Braffort A, Sansonnet JP, Verrecchia C, "Issues in dynamic generation of Sign Language utterances for a Web 2.0 virtual signer", In Proc. IVA, Amsterdam, Sept 09 (view)
Chételat Pelé E, Braffort A, "Investigation et analyse des GNM impliqués en LSF : le cas des clignements", 17e conférence sur le traitement automatique des langues naturelles (TALN 2010) – traitement automatique des langues des signes (TALS 2010), July 19-23, 2010 (view)
Collet C, Gonzalez M, Milachon F, Architecture d'un Système Distribué pour l'Annotation Assistée de Corpus Vidéo. Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles 2010 (TALN 2010), Traitement Automatique des Langues des Signes 2010 (TALS 2010), 23/07 Montréal, Canada. (view)
Collet C, Gonzalez M, Milachon F, Distributed system architecture for assisted annotation of video corpora. Proceedings of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages : Corpora and Sign Languages Technologies, Valetta, Malta, May 17th–23rd 2010, (view)
Cooper H. and Bowden R., Sign Language Recognition: Working with Limited Corpora. Proceedings of UAHCI 2009/HCI 2009, Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science 5616, pp 472-481, 2009, DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-02713-0_50 (view)
Cooper H. and Bowden R., Learning Signs from Subtitles: A Weakly Supervised Approach to Sign Language Recognition. Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2009), Miami, Florida, USA. 22-25 June 2009, pp. 2568-2574, DOI 10.1109/CVPRW.2009.5206647 (view)
Cooper H. and Bowden R., Sign Language Recognition using Linguistically Derived Sub-Units. Proceedings of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages : Corpora and Sign Languages Technologies, Valetta, Malta, May 17th–23rd 2010, (view)
Cooper H, Holt B, Bowden R, Sign Language Recognition, In Looking at People: Automatic visual analysis of humans, Part 4. Thomas B. Moeslund, Adrian Hilton, Volker Krüger, Leonid Sigal (Eds). Springer 2011. pp539-562. DOI: 10.1007/978-0-85729-997-0_27 (view pre-print)
Cooper H, Pugeault N, Bowden R, Reading the Signs: A Video Based Sign Dictionary, In Proc IEEE Workshop on Analysis and Retrieval of Tracked Events and Motion in Imagery Streams (ARTEMIS), Proc ICCV 2011. (view)
Delorme M, Filhol M, Braffort A, "An architecture for Sign Language Synthesis", Proc of The 8th International Gesture Workshop, Bielefeld, Feb 09 (view)
Delorme M, "Sign Language Synthesis : Skeleton Modelling for More Realistic Gestures", In ACM SigAccess Newsletter, vol 96, Jan 2010 (view)
Efthimiou E. et al., Sign Language Recognition, Generation, and Modelling: A Research Effort with Applications in Deaf Communication. Proceedings of UAHCI 2009/HCI 2009, Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science 5614, pp 21-30, 2009, DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-02707-9_3 (view)
Efthimiou E. et al., Dicta-Sign: Sign Language Recognition, Generation, and Modelling: A Research Effort with Applications in Deaf Communication. Proceedings of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages : Corpora and Sign Languages Technologies, Valetta, Malta, May 17th–23rd 2010, (view)
Efthimiou, E., Fotinea S.-E., and Dimos A.-L.: “Creating educational content from a Sign Language corpus annotated to support Sign Language Technologies”. Submitted for publication in Language Resources and Evaluation Journal, Special Issue: Resources and Tools for Language Learners. Guest Editors: Serge Sharoff, Sofie Johansson Kokkinakis, Claudia Soria, Stefania Spina. Springer.
Elliott R, Bueno J, Kennaway R, Glauert J, Towards the Integration of Synthetic SL Animation with Avatars in Corpus Annotation Tools. Proceedings of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages : Corpora and Sign Languages Technologies, Valetta, Malta, May 17th–23rd 2010, (view)
Elliott R, Cooper H M, Ong E J, Glauert J, Bowden R, Lefebvre-Albaret F, Search-By-Example in Multilingual Sign Language Databases, In Proc. Sign Language Translation and Avatar Technologies Workshops, 2011. (view)
Filhol M, "Stabilisation d'un modèle à contraintes pour la représentation lexicale des langues des signes", 17e conférence sur le traitement automatique des langues naturelles (TALN 2010) – traitement automatique des langues des signes (TALS 2010), July 19-23, 2010 (view)
Filhol M, "Search through lexical sign bases with a constraint-based model", Theoretical issues on Sign Language research (TISLR 10), Sep 30-Oct 2, 2010 (view)
Filhol M, Delorme M & Braffort A, "Combining constraint-based models for Sign Language synthesis", The 4th Workshop on "Representation and Processing of Sign Languages: Corpora and Sign Language Technologies", satellite workshop to LREC-2010, Malta, May 22-23 2010 (view)
Filhol M, Patris L, Pierre Guitteny P, Text-sign parallel corpus study to start designing an automatic translation system Proc Sign Language Translation and Avatar Technologies, Dundee, October 2011. (view)
Fotinea SE and Efthimiou E, A platform for sign language content presentation, In Proc. of the V International Conference on Multimedia, Information and Communication Technologies in Education (m-ICTE 2009), April 09, Lisbon, Portugal (view)
Glauert J, Elliott R, Extending the SiGML Notation - a Progress Report Proc Sign Language Translation and Avatar Technologies, Dundee, October 2011. (view)
Gonzalez M, Collet C, Dubot R, Head Tracking and Hand Segmentation during Hand over Face Occlusion in Sign Language, Workshop on Sign, Gesture and Activity (SGA), 11th European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), Heraklion, Crete, Greece, Sep. 2010. (view)
Gupta A, Bowden R, Evaluating Dimensionality Reduction Techniques for Visual Category Recognition using Renyi Entropy, In Proc. European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO2011).(view)
Hadfield S, Bowden R, Generalised Pose Estimation Using Depth, Conference: Int. Workshop on Sign, Gesture and Activity. Proc. European Conference on Computer Vision, 2010. Sept 2010 (view)
Hadfield S, Bowden R, Kinecting the Dots: Particle Based Scene Flow From Depth Sensors, In Proc. Int. Conference Computer Vision, ICCV2011, Barcelona, Nov 2011. (view)
Hanke T, Matthes S, Regen A, Storz J, Worseck S, Elliott E, Glauert J, Kennaway R, Using Timing Information to Improve the Performance of Avatars Proc Sign Language Translation and Avatar Technologies, Dundee, October 2011. (view)
Holt B, Ong E J, Cooper H, Bowden R, Putting the pieces together: Connected Poselets for Human Pose Estimation, In IEEE Workshop on Consumer Depth Cameras for Computer Vision, Proc. ICCV 2011. (view)
Jennings V, Elliott R, Kennaway R, Glauert J, Requirements for a Signing Avatar. Proceedings of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages : Corpora and Sign Languages Technologies, Valetta, Malta, May 17th–23rd 2010, (view)
Martin JC, Sansonnet JP, Braffort A, and Verrecchia C, Informing the Design of Deictic Behaviours of a Web Agent with Spoken and Sign Language Video Data, In Proc of The 8th International Gesture Workshop., Bielefeld,Feb 09 (view)
Moore S, Bowden R, The Effects of Pose On Facial Expression Recognition, In Proc. British Machine Vision Conference BMVC'09, London 2009. pp1-11 (view)
Moore S, Ong E J, Bowden R, Facial Expression Recognition using Spatiotemporal Boosted Discriminatory Classifiers, In International Conference on Image Analysis and Recognition ICIAR 2010, LNCS 6111, Portugal, June 2010, Springer, pp405-414. (view)
Moore S , Bowden R, ''Local Binary Patterns for Multi-view Facial Expression Recognition". In Computer Vision and Image Understanding, 115(4), pp541-558. April 2011. (view)
Okwechime D, Bowden R, Real-Time Motion Control Using Pose Space Probability Density Estimation, In Proc. 12th Int. Conference on Computer Vision, ICCV Workshop: IEEE International Workshop on Human-Computer Interaction, Kyoto, 2009.pp2056-2063 (view)
Okwechime D, Ong E J, Gilbert A, Bowden R, Social Interactive Human Video Synthesis. In Tenth Asian Conference on Computer Vision, Nov 2010 (view)
Okwechime D, Ong E J, Bowden R, MIMiC: Multimodal Interactive Motion Controller, IEEE Transactions on Multimedia. (TMM 2011), Vol 13(2), pp255-265, Dec 2010. (view)
Okwechime D, Ong E J, Gilbert A , Visualisation and Prediction of Conversation Interest through Mined Social Signals, In Proc. IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face & Gesture Recognition and Workshops (FG 2011), pp951-956 (view)
Ong E J, Bowden R, Learning Temporal Signatures for Lip Reading, In IEEE Workshop on Analysis and Retrieval of Tracked Events and Motion in Imagery Streams (ARTEMIS), Proc ICCV 2011. ()
Ong E J, Bowden R, Robust Facial Feature Tracking using Shape-Constrained Multi-Resolution Selected Linear Predictors. IEEE Trans Pattern Analysis and Machine Learning, Vol 33(9), pp1844-1859, Sept 2011. DOI: 10.1109/TPAMI.2010.205 (view)
Ong E J, Bowden R, Learning Sequential Patterns for Lipreading, In Proc. British Machine Vision Conference BMVC'11, pp 55.1--55.10, Dundee, Sept 2011. DOI: 10.5244/C.25.55 (view)
Oshin O, Gilbert A, Illingworth I, Bowden R, Action Recognition using Randomized Ferns, In Proc. 12th Int. Conference on Computer Vision, ICCV Workshop: IEEE workshop on Video-Oriented Object and Event Classification, Kyoto, Japan. pp530-537 (view)
Oshin O, Gilbert A, Bowden R, There is more than one way to get out of a car: Automatic Mode Finding for Action Recognition in the Wild Conference: In Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis. 5th Iberian Conference, IbPRIA 2011. (view) Best Paper Award.
Oshin O, Gilbert A, Bowden R, Capturing the Relative Distribution of Features for Action Recognition Conference: In Face and Gesture FG2011. (view)
Pitsikalis P, Theodorakis S and Maragos P, "Data-Driven Sub-Units and Modeling Structure for Continuous Sign Language Recognition with Multiple Cues", Proc. Int’l Conf. LREC: 4th Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages: Corpora and Sign Language Technologies, Valletta, Malta, pp. 196-203 (view)
Pugeault N, Bowden R, Spelling It Out: Real-Time ASL Fingerspelling Recognition, In IEEE Workshop on Consumer Depth Cameras for Computer Vision, Proc ICCV 2011. (view)
Roussos A, Theodorakis S, Pitsikalis V and Maragos P, Affine-Invariant Modeling of Shape-Appearance Images applied on Sign Language Handshape Classification, Proc. IEEE Int'l Conf. on Image Processing (ICIP-10), Hong Kong, Sep. 26-29, 2010. (view)
Roussos A, Theodorakis S, Pitsikalis V and Maragos P, Hand Tracking and Affine Shape-Appearance Handshape Sub-Units in Continuous Sign Language Recognition, Workshop on Sign, Gesture and Activity, 11th European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), Crete, Greece, Sep. 2010. (view)
Roussos A. and Maragos P., “Tensor-Based Image Diffusions Derived From Generalizations of the Total Variation and Beltrami Functionals”, in Proc. Int'l Conf. on Image Processing (ICIP-2010), Hong Kong, pp. 4141-4144, September 2010 (view)
Safar E, Glauert J, Sign Language HPSG. Proceedings of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages : Corpora and Sign Languages Technologies, Valetta, Malta, May 17th–23rd 2010, (view)
Sansonnet JP, Braffort A, Martin JC, Verrecchia C, "Towards interactive web-based signing avatars", LNCS/LNAI 5934: Gesture in Embodied Communication and Human-Computer Interaction, Springer, 2010, 313-324 (view)
Sansonnet JP, Braffort A, Segouat J, Verrecchia C, "SL Teacher: a Framework for teaching LSF on the Web", In Proc. ICTA, Tunisia, May 09 (view)
Segouat J, Braffort A, "Toward Modelling Sign Language Coarticulation", LNCS/LNAI 5934: Gesture in Embodied Communication and Human-Computer Interaction, Springer, 2010, 325-336 (view)
Segouat J, Braffort A, Choisier A, "Corpus de langue des signes : premières réflexions sur leur conception et leur représentativité", Journal "Travaux linguistiques du Cerlico, L’exemple et le corpus, quel statut ?", Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2010, 23 (view preprint)
Sheerman-Chase T, Ong E J, Bowden R, Feature Selection of Facial Displays for Detection of Non Verbal Communication in Natural Conversation. In Proc. 12th Int. Conference on Computer Vision, ICCV Workshop: IEEE International Workshop on Human-Computer Interaction, Kyoto, 2009.pp1985-1992 (view)
Sheerman-Chase T, Ong E J, Bowden R, Cultural Factors in the Regression of Non-Verbal Communication Perception, In IEEE Workshop on Human Interaction in Computer Vision, ICCV 2011. (view)
Theodorakis S, Katsamanis A and Maragos P, Product-HMMs for automatic sign language recognition, Proc. IEEE Int'l Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP-2009), Taipei, Taiwan, Apr.2009 (view)
Theodorakis S, Pitsikalis V and Maragos P, Model-Level Data-Driven Sub-Units for Signs in Videos of Continuous Sign Language Proc. Int'l Conf. on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP-2010), Dallas, Texas, USA, March 2010 (view)

ACM ASSETS conference. This conference follows the following process: 1) Submission of extended abstracts for the doctoral consortium. Accepted ones are presented either as talks during the conference, or as posters during the poster session. 2) Submission of long papers. Accepted ones are published on the SigAccess Newsletter.

International Gesture Workshop. This conference follows the following process: 1) Submission of extended abstracts. Accepted ones are presented either as talks during the conference, or as posters during the poster session. 2) Submission of long papers. Accepted ones are published on a Springer LNCS/LNAI book.

Workshops and Special Sessions

Special session “Sign Language Technologies”, in the framework of UAHCI-2009, July 2009, San Diego, California, USA (view)
Fourth Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages: Corpora and Sign Language Technologies, in the framework of LREC-2010, May 2010, Malta (view)
Workshop on Sign, Gesture and Activity, satelite workshop of the 11th European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV 2010), September 2010, Heraklion, Crete, Greece (view)
GW2011: The 9th International Gesture Workshop “Gesture in Embodied Communication and Human-Computer Interaction”, May 25-27, 2011, Athens, Greece (view)

Presentations

Braffort A, "Annotation for Sign Language Processing", Sign Language Corpora Network, 3rd workshop on annotation, June 14-16, 2010, (view)
Delorme M, Filhol M, Braffort A, "French Sign Language Generation at LIMSI/CNRS", International Workshop on Sign Language Translation and Avatar Technology (SLTAT), January 10-11, 2010, (view)
Dimou A.–L., Goulas T, Efthimiou E. (2011): “Grammar/Prosodic Modelling in Greek Sing Language: Towards built-in grammar rules in a sign synthesis tool”. GW 2011: The 9th International Gesture Workshop Gesture in Embodied Communication and Human-Computer Interaction May 25-27, 2011, Athens, Greece. (view)
Efthimiou E et al., Sign Language Recognition, Generation, and Modelling: A Research Effort with Applications in Deaf Communication. Presentation given at the UAHCI 2009/HCI 2009 conference in San Diego, CA, July 24, 2009 (view)
Filhol F, Braffort A, "Text to SL translation", International Workshop on Sign Language Translation and Avatar Technology (view)
Hanke T, König S, Konrad R, Langer G & Rathmann C, “Synergies between transcription and lexical database building: the case of German Sign Language”. Corpus Linguistics, Liverpool, July 20-23, 2009 (view)
Hanke T, König S, Konrad R & Langer G, “Towards more linguistic modelling in a sign language transcription environment”. Workshop on Sign Language Corpora: Linguistic Issues, London, July 24-25, 2009 (view)
Hanke T, Matthes S: Phonetic Encoding in Sign Language Corpus Annotation. Signed Language Phonology Workshop, Université de Bretagne-Sud, Vannes, France, 6-8 July 2011.
Hanke T, Matthes S, Regen A, Storz J, Worseck S, Elliott R, Glauert J & Kennaway R: Using Timing Information to Improve the Performance of Avatars. Second International Workshop on Sign Language Translation and Avatar Technology (SLTAT), Dundee, U.K., 23 October 2011.
Hong SE, Hanke T, König S, Konrad R, Langer G & Rathmann C, “Elicitation materials and their use in sign language linguistics”. Workshop on Sign Language Corpora: Linguistic Issues, London, July 24-25, 2009 (view)

Invited Talks

Bowden R, From Activity to Language: Learning to Recognise the Meaning of Motion, CVPR 2011 Workshop on Gesture Recognition. Colorado Springs, US, June 2011-12-12
Dimou A.–L., Goulas T, Fotinea S.-E., Efthimiou E. (2011): “Exploiting the Dicta-Sign corpus data: Teaching material for the Greek Sign Language” Invited presentation at the 2nd Symposium in Applied Sign Linguistics “Documenting Sign Languages for Learning and Teaching Purposes”, Centre for Deaf Studies, University of Bristol, Thursday 30th June to Saturday 2nd July 2011. (view)
Efthimiou E, Text/speech corpora Sign Linguistics Corpora Network Workshop 1: Introduction & Data Collection, London, July 26-27, 2009 (view)
Glauert JRW. (2009), Your Face in the Future? New Applications of Avatars, Emerging Applications for 3D Technologies and Interactivity, London Technology Network, RCOG London, 24th June 2009 (view)
Hanke T & Rathmann C, DGS, Sign Linguistics Corpora Network Workshop 1: Introduction & Data Collection, London, July 26-27, 2009.
Hanke T, “Sign language metadata in the iLex database environment” Sign Linguistics Corpora Network Workshop 2: Metadata, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, Nov. 13, 2009 (view)
Thomas Hanke: Schriftsysteme für Gebärdensprachen: Der weite Weg von der Bewegung zu einem Unicode-Zeichenrepertoire. Workshop Zeichen und ihre Visualisierung, Academy of Science Mainz, Germany, 12 October 2011.
Thomas Hanke: Language Resources for German Sign Language. Jota colloquium on language technology, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, 23 November 2011.
Thomas Hanke: Gebärdensprachkorpora in Hamburg. CLARIN-D Workshop, University of Bielefeld, Germany, 12 December 2011.

Popular Science

Computer Learns Sign Language by Watching TV, Article in New Scientist, 8th July 2009 (view)
Hamburg Science Night 2011, presentation of a poster

Thomas Hanke, Silke Matthes, Anja, Regen, Jakob Storz, Satu Worseck, Richard Bowden, Annelies Braffort, Christophe Collet, Helen Cooper, Eleni Efthimiou, Stavroula-Evita Fotinea, John Glauert, Petros Maragos, Julia Pelhate: Dicta-Sign - Entwicklung von Gebärdensprach-Technologie auf Basis eines multilingualen Korpus. University of Hamburg, Germany, 29 October 2011.

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