{"id":15684,"date":"2011-09-02T16:35:36","date_gmt":"2011-09-02T21:35:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deafnetwork.com\/wordpress\/?p=15684"},"modified":"2011-09-02T18:08:56","modified_gmt":"2011-09-02T23:08:56","slug":"researcher-uses-grants-to-help-create-online-sign-language-dictionary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deafnetwork.com\/wordpress\/blog\/2011\/09\/02\/researcher-uses-grants-to-help-create-online-sign-language-dictionary\/","title":{"rendered":"Researcher uses grants to help create online sign language dictionary"},"content":{"rendered":"

Researcher uses grants to help create online sign language dictionary<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sign Language Recognition<\/p>\n

August 26, 2011<\/p>\n

Media Contact: Herb Booth, Office:817-272-7075, Cell:214-546-1082,
\nhbooth@uta.edu<\/p>\n

A UT Arlington computer science engineering researcher has won two new
\nNational Science Foundation grants to further his work in developing a
\ncomputer recognition system that eventually will yield a visual, online
\nAmerican Sign Language dictionary.<\/p>\n

Vassilis Athitsos, an assistant professor in the College of Engineering, has
\nnow secured more than $1.15 million for research on gesture recognition
\nsince joining The University of Texas at Arlington in 2007.<\/p>\n

One of the new grants will fund collaborative work among faculty from
\nBoston, Rutgers and Gallaudet universities to organize large collections of
\nsign language video and make them easy to search and download from the web.
\nGallaudet University in Washington, D.C. is the world’s only university in
\nwhich all programs and services are specifically designed to accommodate
\ndeaf and hard of hearing students.<\/p>\n

\u201cUT Arlington\u2019s specific part in this project is coming up with a system
\nthat allows people to submit videos of signs online,\u201d Athitsos said. \u201cWe
\nthen identify if and where those signs appear in our videos.\u201d<\/p>\n

Athitsos said the goal is to give researchers and the general public better
\naccess to these collections of videos.<\/p>\n

Athitsos initially became interested in decoding American Sign Language
\nwhile taking a college course in the subject.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was a horrible student; I had to page through a book and look at the
\nsigns until I recognized something,\u201d he said. \u201cThat is how I thought of
\nbuilding a computer system to help looking up the meaning of signs. My
\nprofessor at the time told me no one had tried to make a system like
\nthat.\u201d<\/p>\n

The second grant is a cooperative agreement with ClopiNet, a California
\nconsulting company that specializes in pattern recognition, machine
\nlearning, statistical data analysis and data mining.<\/p>\n

Athitsos said this collaborative project with Isabelle Guyon, the ClopiNet
\nowner, would organize a gesture recognition challenge.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe will invite participants to produce gesture recognition systems, present
\nthem at a conference and have them evaluated live on challenging data
\nsets,\u201d Athitsos said. \u201cIt will give all participants a chance to learn from
\neach other as systems are presented. Once the challenge takes place, then
\nwe\u2019ll have an expert panel evaluate those systems.\u201d<\/p>\n

He said the project\u2019s eventual goal would be to produce better gesture
\nrecognition systems, maybe by combining approaches used in the systems
\npresented.<\/p>\n

Athitsos\u2019 work is representative of the innovative research under way at The
\nUniversity of Texas at Arlington, a comprehensive research institution of
\nnearly 34,000 students in the heart of North Texas. Visit
\n http:\/\/www.uta.edu<\/a> to learn more.<\/p>\n

###<\/p>\n

The University of Texas at Arlington is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative
\nAction employer.<\/p>\n

Source:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.uta.edu\/news\/releases\/2011\/08\/Athitsos%20research%20grants.php<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Researcher uses grants to help create online sign language dictionary Sign Language Recognition August 26, 2011 Media Contact: Herb Booth, Office:817-272-7075, Cell:214-546-1082, hbooth@uta.edu A UT Arlington computer science engineering researcher has won two new National Science Foundation grants to further…<\/p>\n

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