An Avatar-based Interface for the Italian Sign Language

Author

Lombardo, Vincenzo ; Battaglino, Cristina ; Damiano, Rossana ; Nunnari, Fabrizio

Author_Institution

Dipt. di Inf., Univ. degli Studi di Torino, Torino, Italy

fYear

2011

fDate

June 30 2011-July 2 2011

Firstpage

589

Lastpage

594

Abstract

In this paper, we describe a virtual interpreter of the Italian sign language (Italian Sign Language, LIS). developed as part of the on--going ATLAS project, on the automatic translation from Italian to Italian Sign Language. The translation system communicates with the user through a virtual signer: the system takes as input a formal representation of a sign language sentence and produces the corresponding animation of the avatar. The architecture of the virtual signer consists of a resource planner, an executor of the planned sign animations, and an animation system.

Keywords

avatars; computer animation; formal specification; natural language processing; ATLAS project; Italian sign language; avatar based interface; formal representation; planned sign animations; virtual interpreter; Animation; Clouds; Context; Engines; Handicapped aids; Real time systems; Three dimensional displays; H.5.1 Multimedia Information Systems; H.5.2 User Interfaces; H.5.2. iInteraction styles;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Complex, Intelligent and Software Intensive Systems (CISIS), 2011 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Seoul

Print_ISBN

978-1-61284-709-2

Electronic_ISBN

978-0-7695-4373-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CISIS.2011.97

Filename

5989075