Objective
EASIER aims to create a framework for barrier-free communication among deaf and hearing citizens across the European Union by enabling users of European Sign Languages to use their preferred language to interact with hearing individuals, via incorporation of state-of-the-art new machine translation technology that is capable of dealing with a wide range of languages and communication scenarios. To this end, it exploits a robust data-driven sign language (video) recognition engine and utilizes a signing avatar engine that not only produces signing that is easy to comprehend by the deaf community but also integrates information on affective expressions and coherent prosody.
The envisaged ecosystem will incorporate a robust translation service surrounded by numerous tools and services which will support equal participation of deaf individuals to the whole range of everyday-life activities within an inclusive community, and also accelerate the incorporation of less-resourced sign languages into sign language technologies, while it leverages the sign language content creation industry. The deaf community is heavily involved in all project processes, while deaf researchers are among the staff members of all sign language expert partners.
Fields of science
Call for proposal
H2020-ICT-2020-2
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Funding Scheme
RIA - Research and Innovation actionCoordinator
8600 Dubendorf
Switzerland
Participants (13)
151 25 Maroussi
20148 Hamburg
6525 XZ Nijmegen
GU2 7XH Guildford
8006 Zurich
75794 Paris
67663 Kaiserslautern
82205 Gilching
50676 Koln
2501 Biel Bienne
1040 Brussel
31000 Toulouse
WC1E 6BT London
