Project description Cognitive Systems, Interaction, RoboticsDicta-Sign's goal is to develop the necessary technologies that make Web 2.0 interactions in sign language possible. Show the project objective Hide the project objective Dicta-Sign addresses the need for communication between deaf individuals and communication via natural language by deaf users with various HCI environments. It will research and develop recognition and synthesis engines for sign languages (SLs) at a level of detail necessary for recognising and generating authentic signing. Research outcomes will be integrated in three laboratory prototypes (a Search-by-Example tool, a SL-to-SL translator and a sign-Wiki) leading to a practical project demonstrator.Dicta-Sign will be based on research novelties in sign recognition and generation exploiting significant linguistic knowledge and coded SL resources. Interoperation of several scientific domains is required in order to combine linguistic knowledge with computer vision for image/video analysis for continuous sign recognition, and with computer graphics for realistic avatar animation. Coding of SL linguistic knowledge requires exploitation of annotated parallel video corpora for four SLs (BSL, DGS, GSL and LSF), linked to common grammar and lexicon modules created to feed both recognition and synthesis engines.These resources will also be applied, by exploiting multilingual syntactic and lexical interrelations, to domain-specific SL-to-SL machine translation. Sign input will be extended by integrating continuous sign recognition with multi-modal fusion and signer adaptation. Sign recognition technology will also help with annotation procedures and tools developed within the project as a necessary support for adequate corpus construction and data access. Procedural sign synthesis will be extended by further development of current state-of-the-art representations of manual signing elements in order to achieve close-to-natural signing, including non-manual features of eye gaze, mouthing patterns and body postures. Prototypes and the demonstrator will validate the interaction between sign recognition, linguistic modelling, and sign synthesis. Fields of science humanitieslanguages and literaturegeneral language studieshumanitieslanguages and literaturelinguisticssign languagenatural sciencescomputer and information sciencesartificial intelligencecomputer visionnatural sciencescomputer and information sciencessoftwaresoftware applications Programme(s) FP7-ICT - Specific Programme "Cooperation": Information and communication technologies Topic(s) ICT-2007.2.2 - Cognitive systems, interaction, robotics Call for proposal FP7-ICT-2007-3 See other projects for this call Funding Scheme CP - Collaborative project (generic) Coordinator Contact Eleni EFTHIMIOU Ms. Coordinator ATHINA-EREVNITIKO KENTRO KAINOTOMIAS STIS TECHNOLOGIES TIS PLIROFORIAS, TON EPIKOINONION KAI TIS GNOSIS EU contribution € 423 200,00 Address ARTEMIDOS 6 KAI EPIDAVROU 151 25 Maroussi Greece See on map Region Αττική Aττική Βόρειος Τομέας Αθηνών Activity type Research Organisations Administrative Contact Yanna Volti (Ms.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data Participants (7) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all UNIVERSITAET HAMBURG Germany EU contribution € 325 920,00 Address MITTELWEG 177 20148 HAMBURG See on map Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Sabrina Fuhrmann (Ms.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data UNIVERSITE PAUL SABATIER TOULOUSE III France EU contribution € 387 265,00 Address ROUTE DE NARBONNE 118 31062 Toulouse Cedex 9 See on map Region Occitanie Midi-Pyrénées Haute-Garonne Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Anne Molinié (Ms.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data WebSourd France EU contribution € 140 400,00 Address route d Espagne 31100 Toulouse See on map Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Nicolas Piquet Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Total cost No data CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE CNRS France EU contribution € 382 156,00 Address RUE MICHEL ANGE 3 75794 Paris See on map Region Ile-de-France Ile-de-France Paris Activity type Research Organisations Administrative Contact Michèle SAUMON (Ms.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data ETHNICON METSOVION POLYTECHNION Greece EU contribution € 350 068,00 Address HEROON POLYTECHNIOU 9 ZOGRAPHOU CAMPUS 157 80 ATHINA See on map Region Αττική Aττική Κεντρικός Τομέας Αθηνών Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Despina Alatopoulou (Ms.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA United Kingdom EU contribution € 571 396,00 Address EARLHAM ROAD NR4 7TJ Norwich See on map Region East of England East Anglia Norwich and East Norfolk Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Tracy Moulton (Ms.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data UNIVERSITY OF SURREY United Kingdom EU contribution € 430 474,00 Address Stag Hill GU2 7XH Guildford See on map Region South East (England) Surrey, East and West Sussex West Surrey Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Sue Angulatta (Ms.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data
