In the framework of the UAHCI-2009 Conference, hosted by the HCII-2009 (San Diego, California, USA) - http://www.hci-international.org, the Dicta-Sign management team organised the Special session “Sign Language Technologies”
Participants and presented papers:
- "A Similarity Measure for Vision-Based Sign Recognition",
Haijing Wang, Alexandra Stefan, Vassilis Athitsos, University of Texas at Arlington, United States. - "Sign Language Recognition: Working With Limited Corpora",
Helen Cooper, Richard Bowden, University of Surrey, United Kingdom. - "Improving Spatial Reference in American Sign Language Animation through Data Collection from Native ASL Signers",
Matt Huenerfauth, City University of New York, Queens College, United States. - "Partially Observable Markov Decision Process (POMDP) Technologies for Sign Language based Human-Computer Interaction",
Sylvie C.W. Ong, David Hsu, Wee Sun Lee, Hanna Kurniawati, National University of Singapore, Singapore. - "Sign Language Online with Signlink Studio 2.0",
Deborah Fels, Martin Gerdzhev, Ellen Hibbard, Abby Goodrum, Ryerson University, Canada; Jan Richards, University of Toronto, Canada; Jim Hardman, Canadian Hearing Society, Canada; Norma Thompson, Ryerson University, Canada. - "Sign Language Recognition, Generation and Modelling: A Research Effort with Applications in Deaf Communication",
Eleni Efthimiou, Stavroula-Evita Fotinea, Christian Vogler, Institute for Language and Speech Processing (ILSP), Greece; Thomas Hanke, Universität Hamburg, Germany; John Glauert, University of East Anglia, United Kingdom; Richard Bowden, University of Surrey, United Kingdom; Annelies Braffort, CNRS-LIMSI, France; Christophe Collet, Université Paul Sabatier, France; Petros Maragos, National Technical University of Athens, Greece; Jérémie Segouat, Websourd, France.
