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Intelligent Automatic Sign Language Translation

Deliverables

Overview of types of text resources in broadcast data

This report from T63 details multichannel data format used in broadcast data in the light of making these data available for processing within EASIER

Dissemination, communication and community engagement report 1

This document will provide an overview of the overall activities carried out gathering input from Tasks 101 and 102 By closely monitoring KPIs and achieved performance across all activities it will be possible to inject back into planned work and adapt the strategy and plans see T101 This deliverable is produced by Task 101 and gets input from Task 102

Specification for the harmonization of SL annotations

This report produced by T62 suggests an common interchange format for annotations as used in the datasets identified in D61 and provides a reference implementation for converters to this format

Impact creation strategy and plan

This document will define the communication and dissemination strategy and describe the activities EASIER will pursue to guarantee broad visibility promotion and uptake of the projectdriven activities This deliverable is produced by Task 101

An overview of resources in the making

Resulting from T92

Overview of datasets for the SLs of Europe

This deliverable results from T61 It provides an overview of available datasets for European SLs also providing size and access information The report also gives an overview of grammatical patterns as occurring in the European SLs where available providing statistical measures on these from the available datasets

Report on performance metrics and user study preparations

Report on the definition of objective and subjective performance metrics for single components and the overall EASIER system also including recruitment strategies This deliverable is produced by Task T12

Definition of minimal contents of data set for participation

Resulting from T91

Data Management Plan V1

This document to be updated at the end of each reporting period D113 D114 will identify the best practices and specific standards for the generated data assess their suitability for sharingreuse in accordance with official EC guidelines describe the plan for the IPR management 1st version and its implementation 2nd and final version This deliverable is produced by Task 113 and gets input from Task 112

Data Management Plan V2

The second update of the document will identify the best practices and specific standards for the generated data assess their suitability for sharingreuse in accordance with official EC guidelines describe the plan for the IPR management and its implementation 2nd version This deliverable is produced by Task 113 and gets input from Task 112

Publications

Changing the Representation: Examining Language Representation for Neural Sign Language Production

Author(s): Harry Walsh, Ben Saunders, Richard Bowden
Published in: Proceedings of the LREC 2022 7th Workshop on Sign Language Translation and Avatar Technology: The Junction of the Visual & the Textual Challenges and Perspectives (SLTAT 7), 2022, Page(s) 117-124, ISBN 979-10-95546-82-5
Publisher: European Language Resources Association (ELRA)

Representation and Synthesis of Geometric Relocations

Author(s): Michael Filhol and John C. McDonald
Published in: Proceedings of the LREC2022 10th Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages: Multilingual Sign Language Resources, 2022, Page(s) 53-58, ISBN 979-10-95546-86-3
Publisher: European Language Resources Association (ELRA)

A Comparative Cross Language View On Acted Databases Portraying Basic Emotions Utilising Machine Learning

Author(s): Felix Burkhardt, Anabell Hacker, Uwe Reichel, Hagen Wierstorf, Florian Eyben and Björn Schuller
Published in: Proceedings of the 13th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, 2022, Page(s) 1917–1924
Publisher: European Language Resources Association (ELRA)

Introducing Sign Languages to a Multilingual Wordnet: Bootstrapping Corpora and Lexical Resources of Greek Sign Language and German Sign Language

Author(s): Sam Bigeard, Marc Schulder, Maria Kopf, Thomas Hanke, Kiki Vasilaki, Anna Vacalopoulou, Theodoros Goulas, Athanasia-Lida Dimou, Stavroula-Evita Fotinea, Eleni Efthimiou
Published in: Proceedings of the LREC2022 10th Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages: Multilingual Sign Language Resources, 2022, Page(s) 9-15, ISBN 979-10-95546-86-3
Publisher: European Language Resources Association (ELRA)

The Sign Language Dataset Compendium: Creating an Overview of Digital Linguistic Resources

Author(s): Maria Kopf, Marc Schulder, Thomas Hanke
Published in: Proceedings of the LREC2022 10th Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages: Multilingual Sign Language Resources, 2022, Page(s) 102-109, ISBN 979-10-95546-86-3
Publisher: European Language Resources Association (ELRA)

Facilitating the Spread of New Sign Language Technologies across Europe

Author(s): Morgan, Hope E., Crasborn, Onno, Kopf, Maria, Schulder, Marc, Hanke, Thomas
Published in: Proceedings of the LREC2022 10th Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages: Multilingual Sign Language Resources, 2022, Page(s) 144-172, ISBN 979-10-95546-86-3
Publisher: European Language Resources Association (ELRA)

Anonysign: Novel Human Appearance Synthesis for Sign Language Video Anonymisation

Author(s): Ben Saunders, Necati Cihan Camgoz, Richard Bowden
Published in: 16th IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG 2021), 2021
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/fg52635.2021.9666984

Exploiting Emotional Dependencies with Graph Convolutional Networks for Facial Expression Recognition

Author(s): P. Antoniadis, P. P. Filntisis and P. Maragos
Published in: 16th IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG 2021), 2021, Page(s) 1-8, ISBN 978-1-6654-3177-4
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/fg52635.2021.9667014

Organizing a Bilingual Lexicographic Database with the Use of WordNet

Author(s): A. Vacalopoulou, E. Efthimiou, S.-E. Fotinea, T. Goulas, A.-L. Dimou and K. Vasilaki
Published in: Proceedings of XX EURALEX International Congress: Dictionaries and Society, 2022
Publisher: tbd

Signing at Scale: Learning to Co-Articulate Signs for Large-Scale Photo-Realistic Sign Language Production

Author(s): Ben Saunders, Necati Cihan Camgoz, Richard Bowden
Published in: Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2022, Page(s) 5141-5151
Publisher: Computer Vision Foundation

Leveraging Semantic Scene Characteristics and Multi-Stream Convolutional Architectures in a Contextual Approach for Video-Based Visual Emotion Recognition in the Wild

Author(s): I. Pikoulis, P. P. Filntisis and P. Maragos
Published in: 16th IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG 2021), 2021, Page(s) 01-08, ISBN 978-1-6654-3177-4
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/fg52635.2021.9666957

Signing Avatar Performance Evaluation within the EASIER Project

Author(s): A. Dimou, V. Papavassiliou, J. McDonald, T. Goulas, K. Vasilaki, A. Vacalopoulou, S-E Fontinea, E. Efthimiou, R. Wolfe
Published in: Seventh International Workshop on Sign Language Translation and Avatar Technology (SLTAT), 2022
Publisher: ELRA

Language Accessibility for the Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing

Author(s): M. Debevc, R. Wolfe, S. Ebling
Published in: Joint International Conference on Digital Inclusion, Assistive Technology & Accessibility (ICCHP-AAATE), 2022
Publisher: tbd

Skeletal Graph Self-Attention: Embedding a Skeleton Inductive Bias into Sign Language Production

Author(s): Ben Saunders, Necati Cihan Camgoz, Richard Bowden
Published in: Proceedings of the 7th Workshop on Sign Language Translation and Avatar Technology: The Junction of the Visual & the Textual Challenges and Perspectives (SLTAT 7), 2022, Page(s) 95-102, ISBN 979-10-95546-82-5
Publisher: European Language Resources Association (ELRA)

A software toolkit for pre-processing sign language video streams

Author(s): F. Nunnari
Published in: Seventh International Workshop on Sign Language Translation and Avatar Technology (SLTAT), 2022
Publisher: ELRA

Fine-tuning of convolutional neural networks for the recognition of facial expressions in sign language video samples

Author(s): N. Deshpande, F. Nunnari & E. Avramidis
Published in: Seventh International Workshop on Sign Language Translation and Avatar Technology (SLTAT), 2022
Publisher: ELRA

SyntAct: A Synthesized Database of Basic Emotions

Author(s): Felix Burkhardt, Florian Eyben and Björn W. Schuller
Published in: Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Dataset Creation for Lower-Resourced Languages (DCLRL) @LREC2022, 2022, Page(s) 1-9
Publisher: European Language Resources Association (ELRA)

Mixed SIGNals: Sign Language Production via a Mixture of Motion Primitives

Author(s): Ben Saunders, Necati Cihan Camgoz, Richard Bowden
Published in: 2021 IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2021, Page(s) 1919-1929, ISBN 978-1-6654-2812-5
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/iccv48922.2021.00193

Supporting Mouthing in Sign Languages: New Innovations and a Proposal for Future Corpus Building

Author(s): R. Wolfe, J. McDonald, R. Johnson, B. Stuff, S. Klinghoffer, A. Bonzani, A. Alexander, N. Barnekow
Published in: Seventh International Workshop on Sign Language Translation and Avatar Technology (SLTAT), 2022
Publisher: ELRA

Nkululeko: A Tool For Rapid Speaker Characteristics Detection

Author(s): Felix Burkhardt, Johannes Wagner, Hagen Wierstorf, Florian Eyben and Björn Schuller
Published in: Proceedings of the 13th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, 2022, Page(s) 1925‑1932
Publisher: European Language Resources Association (ELRA)

Human Pose Manipulation and Novel View Synthesis using Differentiable Rendering

Author(s): G. Rochette, C. Russell and R. Bowden
Published in: 16th IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG 2021), 2021, Page(s) 1-8, ISBN 978-1-6654-3177-4
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/fg52635.2021.9667033

The Myth of Signing Avatars

Author(s): John C. McDonald, Rosalee Wolfe, Eleni Efthimiou, Evita Fontinea, Frankie Picron, Davy Van Landuyt, Tina Sioen, Annelies Braffort, Michael Filhol, Sarah Ebling, Thomas Hanke, and Verena Krausneker
Published in: Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Automatic Translation for Signed and Spoken Languages (AT4SSL), 2021, Page(s) 33-42
Publisher: Association for Machine Translation in the Americas

What about synthetic signing? A methodology for signer involvement in the development of avatar technology with generative capacity

Author(s): Dimou A-L, Papavassiliou V, Goulas T, Vasilaki K, Vacalopoulou A, Fotinea S-E and Efthimiou E
Published in: Frontiers in communication, Issue 2297900X, 2022, ISSN 2297-900X
Publisher: Frontiers in communication
DOI: 10.3389/fcomm.2022.798644

Sign Language Avatars: A Question of Representation

Author(s): Wolfe, Rosalee, John C. McDonald, Thomas Hanke, Sarah Ebling, Davy Van Landuyt, Frankie Picron, Verena Krausneker, Eleni Efthimiou, Evita Fotinea, and Annelies Braffort
Published in: Special Issue Frontiers in Machine Translation, Issue 13, 2022, Page(s) 206, ISSN 2078-2489
Publisher: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)
DOI: 10.3390/info13040206

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